The way I read it DCC acquire companies and brands, doesn’t look like the make anything themselves more a service provider with no manufacturing facilities.Contour doesn’t actually say (cant find) they have own mfg facilities beyond Test and R & D facilities i’m bit pushed for time to wade through pages of stuff.
My monies on from Panasonic/sanyo they provide OEM services for others, they look so similar to me, although there is a raft of other known manufacturers such as Sony Fujicell, Yuasa,Mitsubishi,Hitachi.
Would the bigger japanese players be cloning other competitors products ? I’m out on that one
It’s a little simpler than that. Would you, if you were Sanyo let someone call their batteries ‘the worlds best battery’ unless they had your cells inside?
Yes, but what I mean is the fact that they would not be allowed to call them the ‘worlds best battery’ unless their competition agreed with them. Or supplied said cells of course. Sanyo eneloops are generally considered the best, therefore so are Contour. To me without them actually being eneloops they could not make that statement without a very large court case.
I’m with Woody, i don’t think a marketing slogan can be read too far into. After all, why are Eneloops the best? They certainly don’t give the best capacity. Not a dig at Eneloops they are my fav NiMh but things can be easily spun
I will hopefully get some internal impedance readings soon, properly done with a dedicated industry standard, calibrated meter.
Yes but, you would be hard pushed to find a better battery than eneloop. So imagine what would happen if contour came along with a cell and said ‘it’s the best in the world’ Sanyo would have them in court quick smart. However if they were Sanyo then they could do nothing. But the point I am making is that to make that claim they be Sanyo. I can’t think of a better battery. That’s one of the reasons I suspected they must have been eneloops.
yep there isn’t much. Sanyo are king to me. I have some Panasonic evolta’s which are good, but the eneloops hold a slightly higher voltage. Vapextech have some, but I have heard as many bad things as I have good. The rest of them are all a bit have arsed. The next best are probably GP recyko’s .