For those who look for decently priced eneloops...

You could call them at 800-821-2769, maybe you could work something out?

naaa, I don't believe it will be cheaper than the 12$-15$ ones from hong kong. :)

Why is it that US companies so rarely want to use USPS?

UPS, DHL and FedEX are rather over with their collection of import duty+VAT and ontop of that they then screw you for a fee for the pleasure of them taking money off you, around £12-15.

It's bloody annoying as I want to buy about half the stock they have @ ThinkGeek, sadly a 6$ item would end up costing $55.

UPS has decent tracking though, even if their people are ripoffs. They charged me an extra 3 bucks because I had some tape sticking out the bottom of my package!

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...Powergenix are no longer being made, per CPF, and have low cycles, and leak under high load. .

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I have been consistantly drawing in excess of 3 amps from my NiZn during bench testing various mods... No failures to date (for reference, this has been out of 14 cells).

[quote=srfreddy] Powergenix are no longer being made, per CPF, and have low cycles, and leak under high load. . [/quote]

I think some of the "high loads" were insanely high loads for RC stuff, not normal flashlight type loads. I was really tempted to try the NiZn cells when the 4-pack and chargers went down to $8, but I'm happy with my Eneloops and Duraloops. In fact I probably have a few more than I really need already.

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I was really tempted to try the NiZn cells when the 4-pack and chargers went down to $8...

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I hate to mention this to my friends overseas, but the BigLots store here had a 20% off deal today. That means it was $6.40 for an 8 pack or charger/4pack. I bought all they had .

im in the 3 amp testing range too. great results from what i can tell on ni-zn.

discontinued or not, it will due until a different material is used as the cheap alternative to li-ion

cant always trust what you read on CPF. its like people are payed to say stuff there

Eneloops are there ready for a charge, but so is Li-ion. and if it was so dangerous, it wouldnt be in your cell phone. Li-ion is more stable at high draw than ANY ni-mh. tell a tesla roadster owner you want to put Ni-mh in his vehicle cause its "safer"

youll get laughed from here back to china, and theyll just give you lead acid, now THERES something dangerous lol

So is this a good deal?

http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11504514&search=sanyo&Mo=4&cm_re=1_en-_-Top_Left_Nav-_-Top_search&lang=en-US&Nr=P_CatalogName:BC&Sp=S&N=5000043&whse=BC&Dx=mode+matchallpartial&Ntk=Text_Search&Dr=P_CatalogName:BC&Ne=4000000&D=sanyo&Ntt=sanyo&No=2&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&Nty=1&topnav=&s=1

that seems way more expensive than the kit i saw

i dont think they have the kit online. im going there monday to do a return, ill take a pic of the tag and box

im pretty sure in store the kit looks like this

http://cgi.ebay.com/NIB-Sanyo-Eneloop-Batteries-Charger-Kit-8AA-4AAA-/140432763096?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20b271e8d8

and is only 25 bux or so.

xP.1337, that's the one I was headed to pick up tomorrow. The store I went to today was out. So I did a search at Costco.com for Sanyo and it pulled up a couple of choices. This was the most expensive of the group but I saw the C & D adapters. Hmmmmm.........

its funny cause i dont see the cheaper kit on their website at all. costco products never seem to be up to date on the website.

also, im using tenergy D and C batteries, with 10,000mah and 5000 mah capacities respectively. a much better choice over using adapters in my opinion. why waste the space and have to constantly recharge lol

True. Where do you get the C & D cells?

Plus what charger are you using?

I need some D rechargeables and even 9v rechargeables for my smoke alarms.

9V rechargeables aren't a good idea for smoke alarms. AFAIK nobody makes LSD 9V batteries. You'll be charging them every week or two.

9v LSDs:

http://www.amazon.com/Rayovac-Platinum-NiMH-1-Count-Package/dp/B003D7LHIG

http://www.amazon.com/Tenergy-Centura-Self-Discharge-Rechargeable-Batteries/dp/B003MRF9G8/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=hpc&qid=1299407336&sr=1-2

No idea how good they are.

There're probably others, didn't check it thoroughly.

i got the tenergy batteries off ebay.

i use this charger from all-battery: http://www.all-battery.com/tenergyT9688universalcharger01127.aspx

the problem is charge time. that charger will take a VERY long time to charge the ni-mh. if you can get a hobby charger that does ni-mh and charge via that method

seems tenergy now has LSD "Centura". i have premium which i havent recharged yet, cause of its size its still holding a charge in my non-used Maglite 3D

they are only 1000mah less and LSD, man wish i had seen those prior to me buying the Premium ones. Oh well. at least they have nice discharge rates!

Thomas Distributing. And the http://www.thomasdistributing.com/-MAHA-MH-C808M-AA--AAA--C--D-Battery-Charger_p_244.html charger. And li-ions ARE dangerous. Anyone who denies that is-ignorant. The charger is the most crucial part. A good charger will increase the safety. And all cell phone chargers are designed into the phone, and *can't* mess up. You can't unbalance 16 18650's in a cell phone. Try putting 4 LiCo RCR's cells at 5 amp draw, tell me when you come back.

Li-ons aren’t dangerous. Stupid people are. If you discharge LiCo 16340s at 5A you get what you deserve.

IMR and IFR are "safe" and have a higher energy density than NiMH.