IKEA kills off LADDA NiMH made in Japan

Hjeh, this is gonna be like people hoarding toilet-paper during the peak of coronoia. :laughing:

Not me, still using TP stashed for "Y2K" (Millennium date-code software bug Armageddon).

Thanks! I’d like to get them locally since shipping totally kills the value aspect. I may grab some 900 mAh AAA’s before they’re gone.

My stash is for The Zombie Apocalypse™.

No zombie is gonna sniff me out because off ass-rot, that’s fer sher.

Just got some fresh LADDAs :CROWN:

Made in Japan and 1900 mAh. They are probably regular Eneloop clones, this is an absolute win in my book!

Where did you get those? In store? Online? The wrappers and packaging is different from the last ones I bought.

Got them directly in the store.
They are not listed yet on the homepage.

Was at IKEA in West Sacramento, CA on Friday 5/28 to buy dishware and it found the white LADDA AA & AAA (made in Japan) endcap was fully stocked.
$6.99 for a 4pack AA
$6.99 for a 4pack AAA

Very glad to see 1900mAh and made in Japan confirmed. I hope HKJ or another thorough tester is able to review a set soon.

I’m surprised to see Ikea offering both 1900mAh and 2450mAh. I assumed we would only see a single variety. The packaging seems to indicate 1,000 cycle and 500 cycle ratings respectively.

I could use some more NiMH cells in both AA and AAA, and want standard capacity, so this is looking like good timing.

Good to know that the new Laddas are still made in Japan. I have now received my delivery and it was still the well-known white ones.
Can you actually see somewhere on the package or on the battery the date of manufacture?

So if they say 1000 cycles they aren’t quite the same as the normal 1900mah eneloops, they state 2100 cycles.

The Date Code for the "white LADDAs" is very lightly embossed on the battery wrapper and hard to see with a format similar to "2044-HW" which would indicate a manufacturing date of week "44" of year "2020". I don't know what the letters following the dash indicate.

Bought more…even though I didn’t need them. Now I have enough for the apocalypse…. and a few more.

Looks like very good news. Can’t quite tell the colour of the new ones in the photo - grey or light blue?

In my eyes they are a mix of grey/green/blue

exciting! thanks for the pics!

my 2450s and 900s are supposed to be delivered end of this week, we’ll see.

for the 1900s, 1000 cycles points to them using less pure (= cheaper) metals for the electrodes, so these should behave more similar to gen1 eneloops than gen4. anyways, ~13 years MTBF is still a lot and internal resistance should stay low for many recharges due to ratio of anode and cathode.
only testing will show.

1900mAh and 1000 cycles only? Are you sure they are really rebadged eneloops?

No, the user community has never been sure with any of the batteries believed to be rebadged Eneloops.

However, if I remember correctly, for the time when AmazonBasics NiMH batteries were made in Japan, they were also marked as good for 1,000 cycles.

It is possible that they are rebadged Eneloops, but come from batches that don’t test as well as those distributed under the Eneloop brand, or that Fujitsu does not allow businesses selling their batteries under other names to claim the same cycle life as Eneloops in order to preserve brand value.

  • Edit - and, of course, it is also possible that they are not Eneloops at all.

Ahhh ok. I understood now.

Hope they will reach my city to buy them locally