Silvercrest SCAZ 5.00 A1 Replacement Battery 3.7V 1800mAh

Silvercrest HD Camcorder SCAZ 5.00 A1 — 3.7V Li-ion Replacement Battery

This 3.7V, 1800mAh Li-ion cell replaces the original battery in the Silvercrest HD camcorder SCAZ 5.00 A1, SCAZ 5.00 B2, and related models (67099, 75981). It matches the OEM voltage rail and physical footprint. Capacity is sourced from the product specification — 6.66Wh total energy.

• SCAZ 5.00 A1 and B2 compatibility: Both camcorder variants share the same 3.7V battery bay, connector pinout, and BMS handshake protocol. A single cell covers both because the power management circuit does not distinguish between model revisions — only voltage and cell chemistry matter.
• Bench tested on actual hardware: We cycled this cell through the SCAZ 5.00 series battery circuit. The BMS accepted the replacement without error flags, held steady at 3.7V nominal under recording load, and cut off cleanly at the low-voltage threshold without forcing a hard shutdown mid-recording.
• First-use charge protocol for SCAZ 5.00 series: Charge this cell fully inside the camera body or OEM charger before your first recording session. The SCAZ BMS maps battery-remaining percentage against a known discharge curve — it needs one full charge cycle from within the camera to calibrate that readout accurately on a new cell.

Battery percentage jumping erratically on the SCAZ 5.00 display

The SCAZ 5.00 series maps its battery indicator against a fixed voltage-threshold curve stored in the camera firmware. A new Li-ion cell has a slightly different discharge profile than a worn original — the voltage steps don't always land where the camera expects them. This makes the indicator jump forward or backward by 10–20% as the cell discharges through different load states. Running one complete charge and discharge cycle inside the camera body lets the BMS re-anchor the percentage readout to the new cell's actual curve.

SCAZ 5.00 showing dead battery indicator on a partially charged replacement cell

This happens when the replacement cell arrives at a storage charge of around 3.6–3.65V and the camera interprets that voltage as critically low based on its indicator mapping. The cell is not flat — the camera is reading a voltage point it associates with end-of-life on a degraded original battery. Place the cell in the OEM charger first and charge to full (4.2V), then insert it into the camera. The indicator will reset to a correct starting point and the false low-battery flag will clear.