Nikon MH-30 quick charger
The joys of selling gear on ebay ...
This is the Nikon MH-30 quick charger unit. It can charge up to two MN-30 battery packs for the Nikon F5 SLR.
I sold the unit you see here via ebay to a customer in England and a week or so after sending it to him, I received an irate e-mail claiming that the charger I had sold him did not work.
The customer had miraculously obtained an unused (and therefore never re-charged) MN-30 battery pack from another source, tried to charge it with the MH-30 quick charger he had purchased from me, and failed. He was suspecting that I had duped him and sold him a non-functional charger.
Here is the (slightly abridged) reply I sent him:
First a few words on that brand new and unused MN-30 battery pack for your F5. The manufacturing of the MN-30 battery pack for the F5 was discontinued in the year 2007. The MN-30 battery pack uses NiMH (nickel metal hydride) cells. Even when used and charged properly and frequently, the lifetime of NiMH cells is 3-5 years at most.
If the cells are not recharged, they will go into deep discharge and suffer irreversible damage after much less than 3 years. This appears to have happened to the cells in the battery pack you bought. At any rate, your battery pack must be at least 13 years old (please check what is written on the battery pack). It is impossible for NiMH cells to still remain functional after such a long time. There just is no chance at all.
There are two ways to make your F5 work.
1.) Either you take your battery pack, open the case and exchange the NiMH cells for fresh ones. There are instructions on how to do this on the web.
2.) Or you purchase an MS-30 battery case that holds 8 normal AA cells. 8 AA batteries last for around 25 rolls of film, perhaps more, if you use good batteries. This is perhaps the easiest way to make your F5 functional.
I hope you will find this information useful. If you have any doubt, I advise you to consult an expert, but rest assured that an expert will tell you the same things that I told you.
Nikon MH-30 quick charger
The joys of selling gear on ebay ...
This is the Nikon MH-30 quick charger unit. It can charge up to two MN-30 battery packs for the Nikon F5 SLR.
I sold the unit you see here via ebay to a customer in England and a week or so after sending it to him, I received an irate e-mail claiming that the charger I had sold him did not work.
The customer had miraculously obtained an unused (and therefore never re-charged) MN-30 battery pack from another source, tried to charge it with the MH-30 quick charger he had purchased from me, and failed. He was suspecting that I had duped him and sold him a non-functional charger.
Here is the (slightly abridged) reply I sent him:
First a few words on that brand new and unused MN-30 battery pack for your F5. The manufacturing of the MN-30 battery pack for the F5 was discontinued in the year 2007. The MN-30 battery pack uses NiMH (nickel metal hydride) cells. Even when used and charged properly and frequently, the lifetime of NiMH cells is 3-5 years at most.
If the cells are not recharged, they will go into deep discharge and suffer irreversible damage after much less than 3 years. This appears to have happened to the cells in the battery pack you bought. At any rate, your battery pack must be at least 13 years old (please check what is written on the battery pack). It is impossible for NiMH cells to still remain functional after such a long time. There just is no chance at all.
There are two ways to make your F5 work.
1.) Either you take your battery pack, open the case and exchange the NiMH cells for fresh ones. There are instructions on how to do this on the web.
2.) Or you purchase an MS-30 battery case that holds 8 normal AA cells. 8 AA batteries last for around 25 rolls of film, perhaps more, if you use good batteries. This is perhaps the easiest way to make your F5 functional.
I hope you will find this information useful. If you have any doubt, I advise you to consult an expert, but rest assured that an expert will tell you the same things that I told you.