Battery scam: don't get ripped off!

This battery is for my Sony FDR-AX53 video camera. If you buy something similar, you should check on yours because it might not be what it claims to be. I will show you how they scam you and what you can do to prevent being ripped off.

[kwaaaa]

This reminds me of the SD card scams where it read as a much bigger capacity than it actually was. The trick was the card was overwriting previous data in a loop when you put files on it.

[jasonvoorhees]

I bought a power bank not too long ago for a reasonable price because I mainly wanted to harvest 18650 batteries for some projects I planned (buying them individually somehow doesn’t exist in my country).

I opened it just to discover there was only 1 functional battery while the 5 others were filled with sand.

I was so pissed I couldn’t even return it as I already opened it.

[Darryl]

Thanks for the video! Lots of people are having trouble with the run time of their go pro camera batteries.
I'm interested to see some of your ideas on how to extend the life of these batteries.
That was unbelievable to see what you found inside yours. Thanks for making us aware of what's really going on (or not) inside there.

[tohopes]

you got the Eco extended battery. 50% less harmful to the environment to produce!

[rp]

Thank you for showing us this tip. That's 2 videos I used now

[microponics]

Amazing video I didn't even know that people have had video camera batteries since the beginning of human civilization. Makes sense..

[OregonCrow]

Looking forward to the battery upgrade for your camera! Thanks buddy

[billykulim]

i got scam once buying powerbank, its rated as 20.000mah after charging it to full i used to charge my phone(5000mah) once to full after that its reading zero %, i open the powerbank and its the same configuration as your video, have 2 plates of steel as weight and 2 battery pack 3000mah so the total only 6000mah

[xxxxSylphxxxx]

Thankyou for this video and your others, you're entertaining...
: Aluminum, copper, brass, titanium, tungsten, and lead are not ferromagnetic (neither are gold and silver but they wont scam with gold weights!). This magnet test is almost certainly less reliable than weighing the pack. (particularly considering how common these non-magnetic metals are in scrap, and lead being the metal that *literal* weights are most commonly made from!)

The best approach (and the only approach I'd bother with) is probably measuring the time from fully charged to dead while powering a known load. Testing the watt-hours a fully charged battery can put out won't tell us lots of important info (their max safe current output; how quickly they'll wear; their circuit component quality (bad electronics lead to unbalanced, barely chargeable batteries, to house fires!) etc). Fortunately, that rarely matters: the cells are by far the most expensive component in a battery pack, so in practice it's rare for a scammer to try to shave off money anywhere else, and if the battery's capacity is ok, the rest likely are.

[Akathis]

Pyramid scheme!! I love you for posting this!!!

[ellenorbjornsdottir]

Small batteries, and basically rocks (well, foam).

[jsaurman]

Just out of curiosity, how did you come up with the name Vuaeco? Is it an abbreviation for something?

[DeePaignall]

The heavy metal parts are probably nuclear waste:)