Digital Camera Reviews

5 Comments

1. Roberto D. Davila

   the batteries will be a welcome addition to my camera bag supplies. i always like to have spare parts for my equipment and these were great replacement parts which will come in very handy.
   Rating: 4 / 5

   Posted on 31-Jan-10 at 12:20 pm | Permalink
2. Wm. Jenks

   Holds the charge as well as the origional Nikon Battery at a much lower cost. This is a “back up” battery and appears to be just as functional as the origional. Buy it for a spare!Maximal Power DB NIK EN-EL9 Replacement Battery for Nikon Digital Camera/Camcorder (Black)
   Rating: 5 / 5

   Posted on 31-Jan-10 at 12:48 pm | Permalink
3. Pedro Bros

   i bought 2 items from this seller, a battery charger (recived) and this battery, never recived. . . still wating for an answer. . . in the package said that the battery was ther, but when i oppened it just found the battery charger. . .
   Rating: 1 / 5

   Posted on 31-Jan-10 at 1:05 pm | Permalink
4. HB Pencil Man

   The Maximal Battery works great! I’ve taken it out for a day of shooting in my Nikon D-60 and taken 1,500 shots and still had battery left when I got home.
   Rating: 5 / 5

   Posted on 31-Jan-10 at 2:38 pm | Permalink
5. R. Gibson

   I bought this battery as a spare for my new Nikon dSLR camera. On first inspection, the battery appears to be built well, and it functions well in the camera. However, right away I noticed that the capacity wasn’t as large, just by monitoring the battery indicator on the camera as I was taking pictures.

   Being the Electrical Enginerd that I am, as well as electric RC pilot, I happen to have a very smart LiPo charger on hand. I rigged up an adapter to test the original Nikon battery, as well as this “off brand” spare. Here are my results:

   Nikon EN-EL9a
   Rated Capacity: 1080 mAh
   Measured Capacity: 990 mAh

   Maximal Power (Power 2000?) EN-EL9
   Rated Capacity: 1800 mAh (yeah right)
   Measured Capcity: 675 mAh

   Both batteries were measured for both charge and discharge current capacity and the two results were averaged. The Nikon battery measured pretty close to it’s rated capacity, while the “Power 2000″ battery came in at nearly a third of IT’S rated capacity, and approximately two thirds the capacity of the Nikon.

   I am disappointed at the misleading package markings on the knock-off battery, however, considering that the battery cost less than the shipping and handling charge, I can live with it. . . especially since I bought it as a spare. Actually, considering how cheap it is, I think I will now use it as my primary battery and keep the Nikon as my spare, I’d rather use up the limited LiIo charge cycles on the cheap battery!

   My recommendation is to buy two of these at a time, so you’re only paying one shipping fee (if it works that way?). That will reduce the per-battery cost and compensate for the reduced capacity of these batteries at the same time.
   Rating: 4 / 5

   Posted on 31-Jan-10 at 2:59 pm | Permalink

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