Customer Reviews

Canon CB-2LS Battery Charger (Charges NB-1L Battery) for S100, S110, S200, S230, S300, S400, S410 & S500

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This charger is lightweight (no transformer), compact (with foldaway prongs), and simple to use. Just insert the battery (you can't insert it incorrectly), flip out the prongs, and plug it in. When the LED glows green, unplug the charger and pull out the battery. The charger accepts 120 and 240 volts, so for travel all you need is a physical adapter. The unit's only minor drawback: When using 240 volts, it emits a quiet, high-pitched whine--loud enough to keep me from sleeping. However, the charger works quickly, so I simply unplug it at night and resume charging in the morning. By the time I'm ready to go, so is my battery.

This charger came with my Canon Powershot S200 camera, and I've been using it very frequently (taken close to 10.000 pictures with 3 different batteries in the last 12 months). I've been using it with 2 Canon brand batteries, and one generic battery, all of them without a single problem.

I've taken it abroad and used it with 240V without any problems. All you need here is a pin converter (cheap at any travel store) and not a voltage converter.

It's plastic and hence very lightweight, which kind of gives a cheap feel to it, but it's been amazingly durable. The prongs fold into the charger and out of your way, so it's very portable. It's a bit big - about the same size as my camera.

It does sometimes make a very high pitched continuous sound when charging, something that can often be remedied by giving a bit of a nudge, or by just adjusting it in its socket.

It charges my batteries in about 2 hours. A red light goes on when inserting a battery for charging, and it turns green when the battery is done charging.

Pros:
* Built in voltage converter - runs on both 120V/240V (with a pin converter).
* Lightweight (plastic)
* Prongs fold into charger
* Has turned out to be amazingly durable.

Cons:
* A bit big
* Sometimes you'll experience an annoying high pitched sound when charging.
* Does not feel very durable

All in all, I would highly recommend this charger. It's come in very handy at home, and when traveling abroad.

You can't beat this recharger. It's small and very light. The prongs fold back into the unit allowing you to put it in our pocket or bag without worrying about bending them.

The single LED light shows red when charging a battery and turns green when the batter is fully charged. This little touch save is just one way this recharger is geat. I've had mine for over a year and it still works as if it were new - not the case with many cheap single LED devices. After a while the LEDs begin to fail and often you're left with a single color. Not with this recharger!

My recomendation is to always have two batteries when you travel - Even with a recharger, you don't want to be caught with your only battery drained.

I took this charger to Europe and with a small pin adapter I was able to charge my bateries without having to buy and additonal converter! I recommend you use one battery durring the day and if you get a chance to return to your room before the evening begins, swap out and have your daytime battery charging during the evening, and when you return to your room for the night, charge up your spare battery overnight. In the morning you'll have two fully charged batteries for your day on vacation!

I was mislead by the title here. This item is a REPLACEMENT for the Canon CB-2LS. It is NOT a Canon product. It does indeed charge the NB-1L battery. It does work on an AC or DC power source. The real Canon CB-2LS is a neat, compact unit about the size of a deck of cards and the AC power prongs fold down out of the way when not in use. It will store quite easily in a camera bag. This item here is about 50% larger and comes with an AC transformer and power cord and another power cord with a cigarette lighter adapter. Just what I needed, another product with a transformer and power cords to keep up with. This is listed as the Canon CB-2LS, but it is not. I will be sending it back because it is NOT what I wanted nor was it what I was lead to believe I was ordering.
Addendum: Today, I see that my review is accomapnied by a picture of the real CB-2LS by Canon. The price here is about $35 which is probably the real thing. I paid about $20 for an "equivalent" [though "equivalent" was not in the product description]. My advice is that you should be sure that you are getting the real Canon CB-2LS. If the price is too good, you probably are not.

This unit is quick and extraordinarily simple to use: put in the battery, plug it in. That's it. The indicator glows red for "charging" and green for "charged." There is nothing else to it. The prongs fold away so you can carry it in your camera case without worrying about them scratching anything. The only improvement I could suggest is that it have space to charge two batteries simultaneously.

There isn't much you can say about a battery charger... I bought this for use with my Canon Powershot S500. it works well, charges the batteries in a reasonable amount of time and it quite sturdy for travel.

Once nice feature is that the prongs that plug into the wall outlet fold into the unit when not in use so that it takes up less space and won't jab into things in your bag.

Does what it says: Charges batteries. Never a problem. Fast charge, LED indicator (red for "not charged", green for "charging complete". Slim design lets you plug it in a variety of outlets. It's a Canon. Of course it works!

I noticed the same high pitched noise that others have reported as well here, it is bothersome if you charge your battery in a quiet place (ie bedside). I simply charge my battery in the garage so I dont have to hear it. But otherwise, it works well, it actually charges at about the same speed as the average cell phone charger.

Battery came as stated. Unsure what day as I do not check my mail everyday.

The product came as advertise. I'm very satisfied with the battery charger, I'm just wondering why these things still cost 35 dollars.