Overview: All Eneloop batteries 2005-2024

Here some pics of the cells and packages.

AA package

AAA

AA close ups.. (pics dont really justify! ,colors are much nicer when you see them in person)

On photo forums Eneloops reign, except for pros who will charge non-LSD batteries the night before the shoot and benefit from their larger capacity before self-discharge has gotten the time to do any substantial damage.

Other than having plenty of eneloops in my camera bag, I always make sure I have an extra set or 2 of freshly charged maha powerex 2700's to use with my flash. They last longer than eneloops and even though they aren't lsd's, I had a set of 4 powerex 2700's that held a 100% charge for 30 weeks. Not too shabby.

The chocolate ones look more like camouflage batteries than chocolate

Can anyone tell me if these appear to be real? (clicky)

They are about $20 a 4 pack here, so $6 for 2 sounds like a good deal for me.

Hard to tell if they are fake. On eBay I would assume they are fake unless you know someone else who has gotten genuine ones from the same seller.

I would buy only from reputable seller who has sold these to someone who can confirm that they are genuine.

How would they tell if they were genuine or not if they had them?

I bought 1 anyway, Ill post detailed pics when I get them to see if anyone can spot anything unusual.

By comparing nipple, wrapping, and performance (if possible) to original Eneloops, of course! :stuck_out_tongue:

Hmm they have sold a lot and there are no negative feedback for them.

Ill post pics when I get them to see if you guys can spot anything wrong as I don't have genuine ones to compare them to.

Or maybe I can try to compare them to ones in a shop.

I've been buying Eneloops for several years , and if you want 100% guaranteed authentic cells , you need to buy from Thomas Distributing.

The best deal is their 16 Pack on Amazon for $38. You can also order from their site but you have to pay shipping, if you order through them on Amazon you get FREE shipping.

All their batteries come with free battery holders too, which is GREAT.

So far I've bought 3 Maha chargers, and around 100 eneloops from them over the past 2-3 years.

They are hands down the best company to get eneloops from, No point in dealing on ebay and trying to score them a couple bucks cheaper and risk getting fake cells.

Their customer service is top notch, one of my Maha C9000's power supply went dead 6 months after I bought it from them, I called them and they sent me a new one overnight free of charge!!!! You can't beat that.

Here's the link to buy from them on Amazon

16 Pack New Version Sanyo Eneloop 2000 MAH AA

You can also get other quantity's of AA and AAA and charger/battery combos (including the new eneloop XX 2500mah version)

HERE

If you want top notch customer service, genuine eneloop cells, then Thomas distributing is the only ones I can recommend.

I'm sure others will agree with me :)

One way to buy cheap eneloops that you know aren't fake is to buy duraloops .

probably one of the best things the flea markets sell is cheap batteries

got great deals on lithium as well..To some people a battery is just a battery .

last deal I bought awas all packages were a buck .the obvious deals are on the 12 packs of AA or AAA's but cr123's or 4 packs of nimh or lithium can sneak past people who don't know or care .

I love the Akihabara.

Ichiban

Here are some shots of the ones I got, I don't know if they are fake or not.

I tried to get pics of the stamp on the side but it was impossible with my phone, they say "1 1 06IP"

On the bottom they say www.ebattery.co.kr, it shows a lot of Sanyo products and it says they are a Sanyo partner.

Back

Top and bottom

Side

Other side

Other other side

Sorry about the crap photos, the auto focus keeps zooming in and out and making it really hard to take clear pictures.

Do you think they are real?

They look identical to the ones I got from a reputable German seller.

The space in "... FIRE,NOR ..." is missing on mine as well.

Probably a good idea to contact Sanyp, and ask them about this. But I read at the other forum about the same question, and he contacted Sanyo, and got aresponse that it's a known "error". But they are genuine.

We could just trust those words or double check with Sanyo.

Would be nice if there are some people who could make pictures of them as well, so we can compare.

Here in Japanwall batterieah have a Japanese text, so that makes it impossible to compare.

Just did a discharge, 1523 and 1532 out of the packets.

Doing refresh analyse now, charging at 1000mAh and discharging at 500mAh.

I think that's safe/ok/good from what I read but people argue over Sanyo's and Powerex's recomended rates.

Discharge could be a little higher (at 500mA it’ll add 4 hours to each refresh cycle), but charge rate of 1A is OK (as long as your charger doesn’t overheats at those charge rates by itself, also warming cells up - like earlier BC-900’s did)

Thanks Shadowww, it just finished doing a refresh while I was asleep. It only put around 1600-1700mAh in to them as far as I could tell.

Doing another discharge now, hoping for around 2000mah but I don't know if I'll get it.

the C9000 displays the DISCHARGED capacity after the refresh&analyze operation rtfm ;). the charged capacity is always (much) less and does not depend (much) on the charge rate. For example, Eneloop AAA rated 800mAh nominal capacity, refresh&analyze:

C9000 discharge at -200mA, "capacity" shown as 834mAh (after the discharge process), then automatic rest, then

C9000 charge at +400mA, "capacity" shown as 834mAh (=value taken from above!). however, when you observe the capacity (during the charge process) it only goes up to 768mAh (at 1.47V, then displays "DONE"), before it jumps to the screening of the "834" value.

If your Eneloop AA (rated 2000mAh) is new and the C9000 refresh&analyze ends with 1637mAh, then it's the discharge capacity at -500mA. The C9000 puts in maybe 1496mAh during the +1000mA charge process, observe it!

btw imho 1600-1700mAh are a little on the low side. you should get at least 1900mAh (=worst Eneloop production batch); it's guaranteed by original Eneloops. i got way over 2000mAh for my AA's, and way over 800mAh for my AAA's. Eneloop rocks! (the original ones, at least.)

Sorry if I've missed the answer to this somewhere, but is it *safe* to leave NiMh batteries charging unattended, as opposed to li-ions? My i4 V2 and first set of eneloops have just arrived, and I don't have eleven hours to babysit them, which is what I believe they require :\