Sony BC-TRW W Series Battery Charger

I prefer having accesories by the manufacturer of my equipment, OEM, so I purchased this Sony charger. It works as it should, it charges your batteries. I was given a non-OEM battery when I purchased my camera and this unit charges it the same as the OEM batteries I have. A necessary addition to one's camera supplies.

This is a must !!!! Charges your battery fast and gets you back into the game of taking pictures. The USB cable that comes with your camera is slower and takes your camera out of the purpose of taking pictures. It is made very well and has a led meter that tells you when the battery is fully charged. That is a very good thing when wanting to know when your battery will be finished. I think Sony should have made this a standard part of the a6300 and a6500 camera package. Way better than some of their other chargers from before. Very nice and great build quality...

this battery charger is great. It's durable and i take it with me in my car when im on the road and it charges the battery while I drive. At home i plug it into an outlet and its just easy. Its compact.. many of the chargers are bulky but this one is not.

First off, this OEM charger works well and charges pretty quick. If you are shooting with anything that uses this battery, then my guess if you will need at least a couple batteries to shoot all day. While it is nice that you can charge a battery in the camera, it is less than ideal when you have more than one battery. I do think that (like most OEM stuff) it is overpriced. It is unbelievable that you pay over $1k for a camera and it doesn't come with a charger.

It is compatible with the battery for the Sony Alpha 6000 series camera. Used it to recharge the battery on a wall socket which is convenient and no need to use the USB cable to connect to the camera and a power bank. A good ideal to use for travelling as can recharge the batteries inside the hotel room too! Less the USB cable, it will be lesser chance to accidentally pull the USB cable while the camera is recharging the battery from another USB power source.

This is the charger that Sony should have included with the new a7 and a7r. Very straightforward and good at what it does, with two small things you should be aware of. Firstly, the positive are the progress lights. I hate chargers that only show a single red and green LED. I love chargers that show me how much it is charged and how much charging remains to be done, so kudos to Sony for including three LEDs that show progress. However… reading the manual, I come to find out that after the progress lights are all lit and the "charging" LED has turned off… the battery is NOT fully charged. For a truly FULLY charged battery, you are supposed to leave the battery in the charger for another hour! So, there is a secret, bonus charging level that you only find out about if you read the manual. I have no idea of the final ten percent of charging will make much difference in the battery life, but I find it odd that they would design the charger to behave as if it is finished charging when its not. My only other quibble is that there is no car charging cord, only an outlet plug. Not a huge deal, but it doesn't hurt to have options, especially considering how short lived these batteries are. All in all, it does what its supposed to do, but it doesn't do it all that quickly (220 minutes from dead battery to sort-of, kind-of fully charged, and an additional 60 minutes to be FULLY-fully charged). The design is compact and travel friendly (the plug folds into the body of the charger). All in all, its not bad, but not the super slick, well thought out, and super fast charger I had hoped for. There are cheaper chargers here on Amazon that charge faster, but the one I purchased (Maximal Power FC500) has little plastic "wings" that hold the battery that are just waiting to snap off, and no progress lights. There are always tradeoffs!

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Don't go cheap with batteries on Sony Equipment. especially the awesome A7 series. You are putting your equipment at risk with that chinese crap, and your home, as the chargers and batteries are not always safe. These are flawless, and Sony makes sure of it. It charges fast, is compact and let's you know what is happening. i get well over 1,000 RAW+JPG out of my Sony ILCE batteries with this charger. Spend the money and get these.

Good charger but it is slow to charge

Carregador original Sony. Deveria acompanhar a câmera já que é um item essencial e carregar direto na câmera não é o ideal. O carregador é bom e possui os leds indicativos de carga, porém demora bastante para dar a carga completa e é limitado a carregar uma bateria por vez.

Realmente es indispensable si cuentas con algún equipo sony, es super pequeño y funcional. El unico inconveniente que tiene es que solo se puede cargar una batería a la vez, pero es útil si no te gusta cargarla en la cámara pues hay muchos riesgos e inconvenientes, como usuario de una A7 es imposible cargar la cámara y utilizarla al mismo tiempo por lo cual me vi en la necesidad de adquirir este cargador que me ha salvado pues puedo utilizar una batería y cargar la otra. Es super ligero y compacto por lo cual no ocupa demasiado espacio, incluso puedes utilizarlo para transportar una batería y al momento de cambiar poner la que no tiene carga.

Finally a Sony charger that’s separate from the camera! Love it! Works great! Received it in a timely fashion and works as described. Would definitely recommend!

I purchased this Sony charger as a replacement for a less expensive one. The less expensive was poorly made and ended up slowing the charging time and not working at all. No problems now.