Hello Matthew Williams here with a quick video to tell you how to save your camera batteries if you've got a camcorder. I've got a nice little Sony camcorder which I like to use which is a HDV as this one here and basically they come with these nice little batteries they're quite small and they do last for hundreds of minutes you know like 200 minutes like this infolithium by Sony let me just focus this in as you can see it's an infolithium now Sony batteries that are infolithium like this one like an infolithium P is and there we are you see it on there 7.2 volts 7.2 watt hours lithium ion NPF P60 ok so these batteries are quite intelligent because what they have is a little sensor circuit inside them and that feeds back to the camera so it can instantly tell it how much battery life it's got left. Now the chargers which come with these cameras this one happens to plug it directly into the camera so you charge the battery on the camera now what happens after a while is these batteries stop misreporting back to the charger or back to the camera and they just won't charge so basically they run down and that's it the only way you can use the cameras on the charger or to buy any battery now I've had that happen with a battery that's less than a year old and I know that it's happened twice on this particular camera so of course you think well dead battery have to throw away no there is a way there's a way around it ok and it's quite simple what you do is you don't use the intelligent charge system on the camera and you don't use the charger that comes with it what you do is you buy one of these cheap 20 quid charges that you can buy on eBay and here it is it looks like this so take a good look let me see what it looks like ok and it's got a little power cord adapter there and it's leaving plug in with a cigarette lighter so you can plug it into cigarette 12 or 24 volts that will plug into your cigarette lighter in the car and it'll charge in the car so even better now the specs on the back I'll just give you the specs so you can read what it looks like video digital camera travel charger 100 to 240 volts 50 or 60 hertz that means you can use it in any country in the world it will automatically select the power you just plug it in and off you go and it outputs this one happens to output 8.4 volts 600 milliamps depending on which camera you have it'll output different voltages and different milliamps but this one is designed to fit the MPs and FPs so it says fits the MP sorry the FP5070 FP90 and FH70 so basically this bit here will change these units look a lot of time they look the same but the front bit will change so basically this one takes this little this little battery and it just plugs in the little red light turns green I think when it's charging and then it turns back to red when it's finished and then you take the battery off and lo and behold this battery has a full charge and this one these were dead batteries that was a dead camera because of the dead batteries and for 20 quid and these batteries can cost you 40 quid or higher if you buy the proper Sony ones so if you want to say to yourself some money buy this and re-due and eight look camera so happy days for Sony and their stupid fucking charge technology but