This NP-F330 battery is special designed for the Sony Camcorders, and it can be used as replacement batteries for many models of Sony camcorders, such as: sony ccd-tr818 battery, sony ccd-tr840e battery, sony ccd-tr845e battery, sony ccd-tr87 battery, sony ccd-tr910 battery, sony ccd-tr913e battery, sony ccd-tr917 battery, sony ccd-tr918 battery, sony ccd-tr918e battery, sony ccd-tr930 battery and so on.
When we talk about the advantages of lithium Sony NP-F330 battery, this is the other way to talk about the lithium batteries' advantages.
This is beneficial because it increases the amount of power that can be transferred at a lower rate of current. So lithium batteries now are widely used in the portable electronic products, the same as this Sony NP-F330 camcorder battery, Li-ion NP-F330 batteries are much lighter than other energy-equivalent rechargeable batteries as we all know that Lithium element is the third one in the Periodic Table of elements.
There is a permanent loss of capacity in these batteries, which looks like a self-discharge. On the other hand, "smart" Li-ion batteries (intelligent batteries) do self-discharge, due to the drain of the built-in voltage monitoring circuit. The self-discharge rate of Li-ion Sony camcorder batteries is about 5-10% per month, compared to over 30% per month in common Ni-MH batteries, about 1.25% per month for Low Self-Discharge Ni-MH batteries and 10% per month in Ni-Cd batteries. According to one manufacturer, Li-ion Sony NP-F330 batteries (as "dumb" Li-ion batteries) do not have any self-discharge in the usual meaning of this word.
Li-ion batteries are wide variety of sizes and shapes efficiently fitting the devices they power. The early lithium batteries of Sony are well-known as gum battery for its small size and power full performance. Comparing to liquid batteries (such as Lead-acid batteries, Ni-MH batteries and Ni-Cd batteries), li-ion SONY NP-F330 battery are high open circuit voltage. Li-ion NP-F330 batteries have no memory effect.