Manual note about charging battery

[NorBro]

I just randomly noticed in the manual it says:

"After charging the battery:"

"The charge lamp turns off (normal charge). If you continue charging more 1 hour after the charge lamp turns off, you can use the battery a little longer (full charge)."

So you charge it 1 extra hour after the lamp turns off, you get a full charge? Kind of silly...why wouldn't the lamp just turn off after a full charge?

Am I understanding that correctly?

 

[plasticam]

This is a sore point with me. Every cheap device I own has a pattern to reflect charge status - but not the FS100
charger. yellow, no blink pattern then nothing. Is it still plugged in? You have to mount the battery to get any info!

Hey Sony, we noticed.

 

[ShawnLam]

The battery behaviour is nothing new, just the way the charger displays charge level.

I wished I kept the old double slot chargers that came with my Z7U and Z5U as although they could only charge one battery at a time, once one battery was charged the second would start, which means I don't have to wake up in the middle of the night to switch batteries if I'm shooting late night and then then next morning. My little work-around was to buy two more single chargers.

The old chargers also had read-outs that showed the remaining time to full charge, including the extra hour for the extra top-off amount.

The good news is that you can buy the double charger for under $100 in the US.
B&H Sony AC-VQ1050D

Up in Canada the same charger costs a lot more. $220 to be exact.
Vistek Sony AC-VQ1050D

But that shouldn't surprise me as Sony L series batteries cost twice as much here as well.