Battery icon question

[thetraveler]

Greetings to the forum. A quick first question. Currently using licensed BYEOS 3.2.3  with a Canon SL3 (250D). So far it all works quite well for me.

My question: The battery icon shows "AC" and not a group of bars indicating charge level. I used the SL3 for about 4 hours the other night but the "AC" in the display never changed to indicate a decrease in battery charge level as I would expect.  Cheers.

[astroman133]

With my T5i, I see the bars if the camera is powered by a battery. It shows AC if it is powered from an A/C adaptor.

[astroman133]

I should also say that the battery level and quality are provided to BYE from the Canon SDK, so the app is just displaying what it got from the SDK and camera.

[thetraveler]

3 hours ago, astroman133 said:

With my T5i, I see the bars if the camera is powered by a battery. It shows AC if it is powered from an A/C adaptor. I should also say that the battery level and quality are provided to BYE from the Canon SDK, so the app is just displaying what it got from the SDK and camera.

Thanks Rick for the reply. Hmm. An idea just occurred to me. Okay, I found it. If i use an original Canon LP-E17 battery rated 7.2v 1040mAh the display shows the battery bars. If I use an aftermarket LP-E17 replacement battery rated 7.4v 1300mAh then the AC icon is shown. Both are Li-ion. I was using the aftermarket battery, Artman Model No: AB00005 for the curious, the other night when I noticed the AC icon. Cheers.

[astroman133]

OK, thanks for letting us know.

[admin]

Those after market batteries do not provide battery level to the camera, so BYE defaults to AC (it thinks you have an AC dummy battery) because it can't read in the internal battery info.

[thetraveler]

9 hours ago, admin said:

Those after market batteries do not provide battery level to the camera, so BYE defaults to AC (it thinks you have an AC dummy battery) because it can't read in the internal battery info.

Good to know. Thanks. I may pick up a couple more of the Canon batteries to have the monitoring and keep my aftermarkets as reserves. Cheers.