A wonderful replacement battery charger for my Powershot

Sep 3, 2012 by StanforthNadel229

One of the most typical issues I have with any kind of electrical equipment is the battery charger. It always seems to be the first thing to fail on anything electrical. My Canon Powershot video camera was no different.

I use my Powershot a whole lot as my second camera. It’s an excellent little video camera. Little enough for me to travel with and takes pictures which are virtually comparable in quality to a full dimension SLR camera. It’s also probably the very best compact camera readily available in its price range.

But it does have an Achilles Heel in my viewpoint, and that is Canon’s NB-5L charger. At this point I would like to include the caveat that I frequently mistreat chargers, but this one did seem to break a little too fast.

I’m an occupied guy, and should take pictures as part of my job. I require 2 video cameras, a desktop computer COMPUTER and illumination equipment. All of which share the exact same expansion plug-board. This suggests that I regularly find my equipment is getting in a tangled mess of wires. Although the battery charger didn’t have a wire, sharing this plug-board implied it was often getting knocked around when I was attempting to square away the wires. I should have undoubtedly have actually unplugged the charger initially, however when you’re in a rush you typically forget about such things.

This could clarify the reason why my NB-5L charger broke, however it did appear to go a little too uncomplicated. One day it was charging fine, the next it was just charging intermittently when I actually pushed the charger in place, then it went completely.

As a replacement I determined to go with the STK version of the NB-5L battery charger, mostly since it was the most affordable one I could discover, and mostly because I was attracted by the car adaptor, which would assist me a large amount for when I needed to take images at additional places.

I purchased it and it showed up extremely quickly, which I was very grateful for because not having a working charger was costing me money. I need to state that I am very amazed with it. It has actually stood up well to the misuse I have meted out to it, and it’s still going sturdy six months later.

The automobile battery charger is a blessing. I don’t know why I never considered using one before. Before this charger, I was always hunting around for power sockets and carrying spare batteries with me. It’s much easier to have the video camera charging in the auto, and have it ready to take images when I reach my destination.

I’m extremely impressed with SterlingTek. I have actually previously purchased spare batteries manufactured by them, and everything simply works well. This charger and the batteries appear to be better made than the original and seem to carry out better also.

I would very recommend this charger to anybody who’s had issues with the official Canon battery charger. Don’t assume that since it’s not the supplier’s own that it will be an inferior item, the specific reverse is true.

Escajeda Suel has been writing content articles on NB-5L charger since 2000.