Batteries not charging

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jhvid

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Within the past week my batteries have stopped holding a charge. I have the battery that came with the camera, and two of the 3500mah dvxuser batteries. The green light on the charger comes on and goes off after a while, but when I put the battery on the camera, there is no power (the panasonic battery has about a five minute charge on it). Could this be a bad charger (it has worked fine in the past)?
 
With this amount of information can't tell, it could be either.

Batteries do have a finite number of charge/discharge cycles in their life time. It could also be that your charger is cutting out early (or not charging at all). You need to use substitution to determine which is occurring. Since you will likely want more batteries for practical reasons, I would recommend that you purchase a new one. If if too doesn't seem to take a charge, then it is very likely your charger.
 
Yeah I haven't really done any testing b/c this just started happening. Of course, I have exteriors to shoot this weekend so I have to have batteries that work; I was hoping that it would be something simple but it looks like I'm going to be buying some batteries :/
 
Interestingly I had a CANON charger fail, for a DIGITAL REBEL camera. I do suspect the charger in your case also.
Since bats are expensive, you could also get an El-Cheapo replacement charger off eBay. Should run about $23 incl. shipping.
If it wasn't the charger you'll have two chargers; can't hurt.
Punch in "cgr-d320 charger" or something like that.
 
As Kmuse said the batteries do have only so many charges in them. But it is very odd that they would all die at one, even if used the same amount of times. It sounds like a charger issue.
 
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