Samsung SB-L160 Replacement Battery 7.4V 3700mAh Li-ion

Samsung SCL810 / SCL860 Series — 7.4V Li-ion Replacement Battery (SB-L160)

This 7.4V, 3700mAh Li-ion cell replaces the OEM SB-L160, SB-L110A, and SB-L320 batteries. It fits the Samsung SCL810, SCL860, SCL870, SCL901, and more than two dozen additional SCL-series digital cameras. Same voltage, same connector, same form factor as the original.

• SCL-series platform fit: Samsung's SCL line shares a common battery bay, connector pinout, and BMS handshake protocol across the SCL810 through SCL901 range. All three OEM part numbers — SB-L160, SB-L110A, SB-L320 — are electrically identical at 7.4V and physically interchangeable within this camera family.
• Bench tested on actual hardware: We cycled this cell through the SCL-series BMS under photo and video load. The protection circuit responded correctly to charge termination and low-voltage cutoff, and the camera body accepted the cell without error flags on first install after one full charge cycle.
• First-use charge protocol for SCL cameras: Run the initial charge inside the camera body using the OEM cable or charger — not a generic USB bank. The SCL BMS maps its battery-remaining display against a voltage curve it captures during that first supervised charge cycle. Skipping this step often causes the indicator to read inaccurately for the life of the cell.

Why the SCL810 shows a dead-battery icon on a freshly charged replacement cell

The SCL810's BMS calibrates its indicator against the discharge curve it recorded from the original cell. A new cell with a different internal resistance profile can read as depleted even when voltage is near full. This is a calibration mismatch, not a fault in the replacement. Charge the new cell fully inside the camera body — the BMS re-maps its threshold against the new curve during that first cycle. After one full charge-discharge cycle in-camera, the indicator typically stabilises and reads accurately.

Battery percentage jumping erratically mid-shoot on the SCL series

Erratic percentage readings — dropping from 60% to 20% in a few frames, then recovering — point to a voltage-threshold mismatch between the cell's actual discharge curve and the camera's stored lookup table. It happens most often when a replacement cell has a slightly different mid-discharge voltage plateau than the OEM cell the BMS was calibrated against. Run two full charge and discharge cycles in-camera to allow the BMS to update its mapping. If the jumping persists after two cycles, check that resting voltage after a full charge reads at or above 8.2V with a multimeter.