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| Thread ID: 147720 | 2019-03-18 23:24:00 | AA Battery Chargers | Driftwood (5551) | PC World Chat |
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| 1459213 | 2019-03-18 23:24:00 | Decided to buy a decent smart AA/AAA battery charger. Currently researching available ones. The list is growing. Could someone recommend one they are happy with that didn't exceed $100 NZ. Thanks |
Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 1459214 | 2019-03-18 23:49:00 | I would say get one that charges batts separately. Some charge in series pairs . And look at if the charge rate drops for charging 4 compared to charging 1 . I had a super-duper AA charger a while back. It had functions to test capacity, to discharge ,to pick your charge rate, would show actuall mah's of the batt etc. Really not worth the $$ . It failed eventually . I just use a Varta rebranded DSE , many years old. Wasnt expensive and often available dirt cheap on trademe . I only use rechargables in the camera . Alkaline are now so cheap for a pack of 30 its not worth the effort of mucking about with rechargeable AA's for most things . |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1459215 | 2019-03-18 23:51:00 | I got mine from mrpositive.co.nz | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1459216 | 2019-03-19 00:58:00 | I got mine from mrpositive.co.nz Did you get the Xtar VC4? |
Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 1459217 | 2019-03-19 03:30:00 | Eneloops charger from Jaycar. Great buy as you get 4 AA's with it. www.jaycar.co.nz Ken :banana:banana |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1459218 | 2019-03-19 03:33:00 | I got mine from mrpositive.co.nz +1. ours is ancient, had it years and years now. Recently bought one from this guy as well, for a non-standard size battery - husbands torches... Also cheap, also great. |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1459219 | 2019-03-19 04:46:00 | Eneloops charger from Jaycar. Great buy as you get 4 AA's with it. www.jaycar.co.nz Ken :banana:banana +1 for Eneloop. We have 3 of their rapid chargers that can charge a single battery rather than requiring two, as well as individual status LEDs. They couldn't quite keep up with the charging demands of my Lego trains during a show but they did a damn good job trying :) | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1459220 | 2019-03-19 06:46:00 | I have This (www.mrpositive.co.nz) one as I use a lot of 18650 batteries | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1459221 | 2019-03-19 07:03:00 | I use a lot of Eneloops, but that charger looks like a cheap trickle charger which I'm not fond of. I don't have one though to check so maybe it is a good one? The circuitry for automatic deltaV cutoff of charging is cheap as chips these days so any charger without it is not worth having, I think the eneloop rapid charger does. I have this and it's been very reliable www.jaycar.co.nz Unfortunately it's discontinued. This looks good www.mrpositive.co.nz And the Nitecore has a good reputation www.mrpositive.co.nz That xstar VC4 looks like a nice charger but I've nott heard of them before so I'm only going by the web page. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1459222 | 2019-03-19 08:03:00 | Thanks guys, I've got my short list down to 17 now. Just working my way through the reviews. Favouring the ones with a full readout, not just progressive LEDs. |
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