[quote author=“mac”]
There’s not much in this forum on these except one person who seems to have had really bad luck with them.

there was a warning in the TR3 package that says something like if u use 3rd party batteries that u risk BLOWING UP ur TR….good luck. :shock:

[quote author=“invisiblefly”]how many cycles does TR’s regular battery designed for?
200?

I am still interested to see how many cycles gr00vy0ne and Drachen have gone through. 

I still maintain that none of us will care in another year or two because you will be looking to upgrade and sell your TR anyways.  This is almost a moot topic.

“risk blowing up”

well, I don’t buy it and I’m pretty cautious.

Third party batteries have the ‘potential’ to be trouble , but i’ll bet decent ones are fine.

But you have got me thinkin :?

( I just noticed that i’m a “fledgling traveler”-how nice   )

OK heres my goss and whinge:

My Battery:
Cycles - 27
full charge capacity now available/capable: 47.28
design capacity - 47.73

My gripe is; i have had a sony pcg-u1 and a couple of U3’s and they had the same sort of battery smarts so i could tell the cycles and capacity. These batt’s didnt start to lose capacity the whole time i owned them, and i got to over 70 on one of the batterys.
I have seen one with over 300 cycles and it’s only just started to lose a bit of capacity. So why can Sony design one batt that performs so well and not another?