Testing those Ebay 3000mAh AA Batteries your tempted to buy ....

I have some of those and with a 150 mah discharge it lasted around 3 hours. Eneloops can do 10 amp discharges with a very good capacity. (Around 1500 mah) Also nicads aren't LSD.

Thanks for the Imedion link, gadabout.

I went through the 60ā€™s and 70ā€™s, so whatā€™s so bad about LSD :slight_smile:

So I just got myself one of them fancy battery chargers, a Triton Jr

Seems it can cycle batteries - discharge then recharge, and measure how much comes in/goes out.

Fascinatingā€¦. Iā€™m looking forward to doing some tests on various rechargables I have!

Welcome to the gang, sar10538!

Our roads are like that here, I live in Christchurch, New Zealand.

And BTW +SAR+CHASM sort of fits if you look at my ID :wink:

LSD is a good thing. It means low self discharge. Iā€™m not sure of the exact figures for eneloops but perhaps someone else can chime in :slight_smile:

LSD was always a good thing :slight_smile:

Two nations divided by a common languageā€¦

Gudday from Palmerston North, mate!

Seems weā€™re getting a few kiwiā€™s on here :slight_smile:

For an endangered species, it looks like kiwis are getting everywhere these days :slight_smile:

All the best from Quakecity!

To be fair to eneloop competitors, the batteries tested in this thread are not a comparison to any decent NiMH. This thread is not saying buy eneloops!

Before you think that eneloops are the only cells worth buying you really need to try the following:

Turnigy
GP
Vapex Instant

I own Turnigy , GP , and Vapex ...

I have over a year now had several Turnigy AA "FAIL"

No Eneloop has failed as yet , neither have my GP , and my Vapex are very old and still going ..

I tried ordering more AA ( junk ) , hmmm , last attempt to get a sample batch = failure ...

Seller did not want to co operate ?

The ebay seller atleast did a nice job on re-wrapping those used recycle-bin batteries anyways. :party:

Yes - very attractive garbage !

Why should I gamble my money when I can buy a sure bet?

Gosh I dunno. Thatā€™s like saying I tried driving a Rolls Royce and it works so Iā€™m not going to try anything elseā€¦

I've driven hundreds of other batteries over the last 20+ years ..I was trying to show some old sanyos I bought probably 20 years ago . 1200mah nimh AA dark green rebadged sanyo white tops for a company named bt&t controls I bought about 20 AA's and the next year at this electronics show all that could be had were sort of a lime green 1300mah cell I bought 50 of them AA and AAA's and everyone of those are dead , every energizer / rayovac kodak I've bought since then are all dead time and time again it's been sanyos that are still kicking .Some of these batteries don't last a year .Buying anything but eneloops or rebadged sanyos is just wasting your money . duraloops on sale were less than a buck .Thats not rolls royce prices . They are always on sale and worth stocking up on.

Thanks for the valuable test man. Much appreciated. Less than 3x capacity than claimed.