M8 Charger Failure

[amvma]

I have been using my M8 evry day now for approx 4 weeks now with no problems at all.

Until tonight that is, when the charger appears to have failed.

From what I can acertain, the charger refuses to re-charge the battery from the AC mains, with neither the green power nor orange LEDs illuminating.

A subsequent test using the DC power adaptor in the car, does show that the charger will still charge from this DC source.

I have also made some other tests with the indoors AC including:
- changing sockets in the house
- ensuring the sockets have power by using other appliances
- changing the plugin adaptor on the Charger to test the UK, European and US versions (all of which do not work).
All of these tests indicate to me it is the Charger at fault.

I am planning to call the UK vendor tomorrow to see what they can recommed in the way of a replacement, but would be intersted to hear if anyone else has suffered a similar problem.

Best wishes / Nick

 

[jimbobuk]

I fear this may have just happened to me. I rushed home to get my charger after the battery presumably ran out whilst doing a burst of captures in continuous shot mode.. It was just flashing as it wrote its buffer to memory card and then that was it, no battery icon in the window, no shutter response.. the led flashes when you turn it on.. I assume this is the exhausted battery state?

I went to recharge and there was a bit of play in the actual plug mechanism, this seems inbuilt into how the adapters for different territories work... I believe at one point i may have seen the lights come on briefly but then that was it.

I'll be on the phone to leica tomorrow if its still an issue when i get home. I need to get a spare battery as well, don't know if the battery could cause it.. then again the charger should light its power led with no batter inserted at all shouldn't it?

You are ok to leave the charger charging unattended aren't you? as in it cuts itself off safely, for an over night charge?

Cheers... gutted though, just got a new lens as well 🙁

 

[jimbobuk]

got home and tried some more.. nothing lights it.. tried the alternative plug types, that then fit into a 2pin euro/shaver adapter back into a uk plug. This didn't work..

I then tried it via the car charger lead, and this works fine.. obviously feeding DC not needing a transformer or anything.. its something in the AC path..

I wonder about being a fuse, but there is no way to change this is there?

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

Have you checked whether the prong accessory (you know, the one that is used to plug it in to the wall) has no play?

 

[jimbobuk]

I tried using the EU adapter instead via a shaver plug, this didn't help..

The pins on the charger that mate with the plug adapter were rock solid, the pins on the plug adapters themselves were fine.. i just think its not flush with the plug socket all the way so it can pivot more than most adapters which rest flush with the socket all the way along it.

Its going back to leica as soon as i've charged my batter via the car charger.

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

Its going back to leica as soon as i've charged my batter via the car charger.

That's the problem: you're making waffles with it! 😉

Yep, have it shipped to Leica asap. Leica should stop dropping the ball with all of this outsourcing; perhaps they'll demand more accountability in upcoming co-manufacturing contracts.