SteveS1
I heard that, pardon?
Enerloops for me, I must have 30 of them in various remotes. They were my goto for camera flash as well, despite their lower voltage
Which charger do you use?
Enerloops for me, I must have 30 of them in various remotes. They were my goto for camera flash as well, despite their lower voltage
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The GF and I have both been using the LADDA rechargeable batteries in everything from AA Apple KBs, TPs and Mice, to AAA in cordless home phones, and even battery powered toothbrushes. The (now discontinued) HR03/AAA 500mAh last a good long time in the phones and those HR6/AA 2450mAh (pictured above) last for weeks between charges in the daily use Apple peripherals.FWIW some film and TV sound people seem to rate the cheapo Ikea LADDA rechargeables. Rumoured to come from the same factory as Eneloops but who knows!
Edit: YouTube vid claiming LADDA = Eneloop Pro
Going one further, make sure that the charger either has individual battery charge sensing circuitry, or battery pair sensing (say with a 4-bay charger), otherwise a battery that is going off and taking much longer to charge (or never quite fully charges) can cause other batteries to overcharge, shortening their life. With the 'pair sensing' type always keep the same pairs of batteries together.
That's all anyone needs in a charger, really. I've a slightly older Sony equivalent here, BCG-34HLD; independent bays, and it auto shuts off after 7hrs regardless. It was one of the cheapest 4-bay 'smart chargers' on the market for a while, came with 2 1000mAh CycleEnergy cells which are LSD (low self-discharge) and work fine. For a bit more, it could have be had with 4 x 2000mAh LSD or 4 x 2500mAh none-LSD cells, but I was already well into collecting the IKEA cells by then.I have a Panasonic BQ-55, which seems really good and at the time I bought earlier in the year was only about a tenner on top of the included quad of Eneloop Pros, if that. It deals with each battery slot independently finishing each when it is done and actually auto powers-off when all are done, so safe to leave working overnight etc.
Interesting what you say about mAh etc, I was kind of coming to that conclusion. I suspect Pros for the Walkman and really bright cree LED torches, standard for everything else in my case. I’ll be curious to see how long they last between charges in low-draw stuff like remotes, clocks etc.
The fancy Lenovo mouse that flooded with leak acid has two AA batteries in parallel and a step-up SMPS’m also curious as to the mechanism that can make one of a pack of alkaline batteries leak. It seems to me that that leaks tend to occur when multiple batteries are chained to produce a higher voltage, e.g. 3 x AAA to produce 4.5V. I guess if one battery discharges first for whatever reason the other two would effectively attempt to charge it, and maybe that is the point of real failure. I can’t recall ever finding a leaked battery in a device that only uses a single one, e.g. my AT637, little Braun alarm clocks (of which I have several) etc.
I can’t understand how some Chinese factories get away with such products.indeed. I have stopped buying batteries from Amazon Marketplace and Ebay. Had two lots of fake Duracells.
Worst was the fake Nokia phone battery, that started smoldering a few days of insertion, replacement from amazon marketplace swelled up so much the back of the phone popped off.
I can’t understand how some Chinese factories get away with such products.
They employ people, feed families and yet only produce crappy fake products, and use materials that are extracted from mines that also employ people, etc. - for what purpose?
I don’t understand Chinese economy.
There is clearly no conventional profit motive in this transaction
Hi Michael,Have been running Eneloop whites and a Maha MH-C9000 charger for years now.
Canoe-camping required multiple lights and back in the day I invested in several Petzl headlamps each of which ate 3 AAA's + various AA's in other things - so rechargeables were a no brainer. Now the headlamps are dying and being replaced with Zebralights and of course after many years of service the cells are dead or dying and need replacing.
I was looking at both the Whites and Blacks, but the price has gotten ridiculous - over 25.00 Cdn a 4 pack.
I heard about the Ikea's being made by the Eneloop people and was going to give them a try.
This thread has re enforced that belief. Thank-you.
One of the Zebralights is an 18650 torch. (SC600W Mk IV Plus). This will be my first foray into 18650... A couple that have been recommended are Sanyo NCR18650GA and Samsung INR 18550-30Q. Both can deliver the 6-7 amps the light requires at full power with some headroom for aging. Good choice? Alternate?
The China postage thing is weird. As I understand it China Mail benefits from a really old Universal Postal Union charging structure where China is listed as a 'developing nation'. This means the postal service of the destination country is only able to charge them a few pence so it works out far cheaper to mail a widget from Shanghai to London than from Reading to London.
Is it possible that quality of genuine batteries has not gone down and that counterfeiting has spread more than we realise?
I’ve been uncomfortable with this for a while, I certainly won’t buy from anything other that very big name stores that one can have some confidence have a direct account with the regional distributor. As an example I’m still in need of some AA size Eneloops to finally purge my remaining alkaline batteries to the bin and Amazon are out of stock, so I’ll just wait it out. No way am I going to Marketplace sellers or eBay, just way too much risk and uncertainty.
Just tried that over here.IKEA on line.
Pete