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 
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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
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
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
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.
I can get a set of four 2500mah Duracell or Energizer for that price. Why go with those 2000mah Eneloops? Are they better in some way? Curious, thanks.
Yes.
The Energizers will have no charge worth mentioning next week. Any Energizer. If you are lucky, next month.
Eneloops are usable out of the box next year....
Eneloops beat most things for actually usable capacity.
There are cheaper alternatives though. I own more than 50 Eneloops so can't say about the alternatives.