Canon LP-E6n/p vs others

[MTGseattle]

I searched a bit and could only find threads related to older Canon batteries. I seem to have left my Canon charger and extra battery at an airb&b. ( I didn't realize it for a while since the batteries last me quite a while). A new one is in the 70-80 dollar range but there are a lot of off-brand options. Can anyone comment on any of the off-brand options? As an example, I could get 2 of the Smallrig brand lp-e6n 2400 mAH for the price of a single new Canon. I think Canon rates their LP-e6n at 1875 mAH at 7.2 volts.

 

[_T_]

Recently an industrial imaging company did a review of Lithium Ion batteries’ manufacture in terms of their quality of design and construction and the results were pretty shocking.

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Many of the cells they tested had dangerous design or construction flaws.

It’s possible that Smallrig uses quality cells with properly designed and implemented protection and quality construction, but I’m not sure how to verify that short of cutting up one of their batteries and finding out what cells they used. Maybe someone has done this already and posted it somewhere.

For me, when it comes to lithium batteries I always err on the side of caution: choosing quality cells when it’s possible to do so. But when it’s not possible to know what cells are used I go with the battery made by the manufacturer of the product that it’s going to be powering, that way if the battery catches fire or explodes there’s less chance of the companies involved in the device failure weaseling their way out of accountability.

I don’t like that I have to think that way but with how dangerous a catastrophic failure can be and how poor the quality of most of the products on the market tend to be, lithium ion batteries are one of the places where I don’t feel comfortable taking chances.

Saving $40 on a battery isn’t worth wondering whether or not it’s going to end up burning down my entire house or exploding and hurting me or someone I love.

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

I’ve been happy with Wasabi batteries, both LP-E6n and more recently LP-E6p. The LP-E6p types seem to have similar battery life to the reported life of the original Canon batteries, and they correctly report battery life and charge status to the camera, which is not true of all 3rd-party batteries.

 

[gbroadbridge]

Energon or Neewer are both fine and seem to match their advertised rating.

I've been using them for ages in many cameras with no problems.
You would have to check and see if they have the correct model for your camera.

But honestly, if you don't burn through a couple of batteries a day, I would simply stick with OEM.

 

[MTGseattle]

@_T_ I am aware of the risks, and aside from reports of fires caused by lithium polymer (LiPo) batteries from various radio controlled vehicles and poor batteries in wheeled toys, I'm not too worried, and I have a space where I can charge them in relative isolation.

That being said, I will likely just buy another Canon battery. I've found with my cordless power tools that the cheap copies don't hold up. They either don't offer near as many charge/discharge cycles, or fall well short of the advertised power output. If I had to buy five or six batteries, I would try a couple non-oem just to see, but I only need one.

I appreciate peoples input.