TECH: Batteries-CamCorder

[Floyd Pentlin <fpentlin@GARFIELD.LEESUMMIT.K12.MO.US>]

OK -- group -- once more it is time to tap the cumulative intelligence
and experience of 4,000 or more experts:

How do you handle the problem of when faculty/students return a camcorder
and when you recharge the batteries, it recharges for only the length of
time it was used -- and so now we have batteries that will charge for
only 10 minutes?

The camera goes out so much that it is difficult to keep track of who has
used it and for how long.  If you send out the camcorder with someone and
don't know how long the battery is used, do you always send out and extra
battery -- realizing that the way to prevent the 10-minute battery
syndrome is to draininng the battery as far as it will go?

What are the tips of the trade that I'm missing on this? Is it -- you
always send an extra battery so if the one in the camera runs out they
have a spare?

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