BTY - 2500MAH NI-MH AA Batteries

[sperera]

Thought I might post up my review/opinion of some AA batteries I bought off the interenet.

Had these for 3-ish months now so enough time to do a proper review/opinion.

Bought 12, tried to charge them up straight out of the packet using my B6 charger and they would only take a small mah and then peak off. so chucked them onto a dc and let them go all night. Lasted almost same time as my more expensive rechargables.

Put some of the batteries aside for 2-3 weeks, when I went to sue them dead flat. Crap, charged them again, used some of them straight away and put others aside for 2 weeks, dead flat again!

So safe to say these things don't like holding their charge. I like to plan ahead and charge up a heap of batteries and put them aside, so I know their right when I need them so I wont be buying these again. Good for the person to charges before every use.

At $1 for a pack of four plus shipping great value but not what ill be buying again.

Cheers

Sohan

 

[BiggaJ]

Fair Do's Sperera, I like to do the same as you and buy generally 2500 - 2800 mAh Ni-Mi batteries. I have found some of the best I have bought are from Tandy.....

http://www.ukstores.org/Electronics...oss_4_x_AA_2700mAh_Performance_Batteries.html

 

[Trebor]

hey Jon another good place is here and pretty local as well ....

they will let you go pick them up from there warehouse

http://www.buyabattery.co.uk/durace...eme-rechargeable-batteries-c-372_376_794.html

 

[Bigger the Better]

I have a crap load of 2500 Duracell rechargeable and they too hate holding a charge. NiMh batteries have a charge loss I know but it is really annoying to charge them and a week or two later have to do it again because they die. After a few charges and uses they get better and hold again but its a vicious cycle.

 

[sperera]

i hear the enelop batteries hold their charge for 12 months which is pretty amazing, I might try them next.

 

[atom3624]

Do you have a link?

 

[sperera]

for what mate the crap batteries I bought or enelop's?

 

[pipeous]

I now have lipos in all 3 of my radios... it's the way to go. rarely need to charge... I actually rarely turn my dx3.0 off when we are out.. no need to worry. the radio becomes so much lighter and it's really easy to wire them in

this in the dx3 http://hobbyking.com/hobbycity/stor...S_11.1v_Low-Discharge_Transmitter_Lipoly_Pack

http://s304.photobucket.com/albums/nn181/Pipeous/RC/dx3/

and these I put in my redcat and nutech 2.4's http://hobbyking.com/hobbycity/stor...nigy_1450mAh_3S_11.1v_Transmitter_Lipoly_Pack

the last pack is really tiny. got an extra that's going to be my rx pack in the redcat rally as it fits in the radio box

 

[atom3624]

Nice idea and cheap for a LiPo.
What about discharging ... ?? Cutoff.
Somebody's already had problems with simple NiMH rechargeables in his Tx.
Al.

 

[Trebor]

Alan check out this link

[ame]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sanyo-Eneloop-Pack-Batteries-2000mAh/dp/tech-data/B000IDUOPA/ref=de_a_smtd[/ame]

hmmm looks like you have to click the link then click "home"

K....

 

[sperera]

id like to do that down the line