On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:40:51 -0800, William Sommerwerck wrote:

The appropriate "insight" is that third-party Li-ion batteries often
aren't very good.

The one I bought for my Yaesu transceiver -- from a legit, honest
battery dealer -- died pretty quickly. The Li-ion battery for my Olympus
E-500 -- from a well-known third-party manufacturer -- does not the
capacity or charge retention of Olympus's battery.

This is unfortunate, because the manufacturer's batteries seem to be
overpriced.

Yeah, it is unfortunate...

Do you know of any third-party Li-Ion batteries that *are* good? It
seems that part of the problem with most of them may be that they don't
use very fresh cells.

Dan