Great compilation of Eneloop releases - thank you very much!

let's not forget to mention that the colored 8-packs have the advantage of pre-numbered cells (#1, #2, .., #8) so you dont have to mark them with a pen yourself.

i posted a freshly taken picture of the 7th cell of the Eneloop Glitter 8-pack. it's the 3rd cell from the left. as you can see, it is numbered (bears "#7").

These kind of products make me feel good. joy-bringers!!

i certainly cherish mine. They perform so much differently (=no dimming effect in flashlights) than normal NiMH's or worse: Alkalines!

And they are *not* expensive anymore. Per cell you pay 12.99€ for an 8-pack on ebay/amazon. That's cheaper than the Eneloop Lite's!, and the same for a LiIon cell (Trustfire, Ultrafire, Won'tFire, ..).

Thanks for compiling this list!

I didn't know there is a 3rd generation already.

I think it would look better in a table... but as it is - great to have this info all in one place!

WOW! Thanks! Great job!

Nice job.  Thanks for your hard work.

I like the idea of having a whole set of eneloops that are different color or have different lables.  

very nice job ty

from wikipedia...

eneloop plus

eneloop plus have a PTC thermistor built-in that cuts the power when the batteries are overheating. This makes them especially suitable for toys. Other specifications are identical to the second-generation eneloops. The product number is HR-3UPT (AA) and the battery was released in Japan in December 2011

is about that

Eneloop PLUS:
HR-3UPT: AA (70%Claimed capacity after *³5 years, date November 2011

...tables are WAY better!!!

/trolling mode off xD

Thanks so much ChibiM. I want to purchase some Eneloops and this helps sort out the confusion over which ones to buy.

Thanks very much for the data.  Do you have the same for Duraloops ?

GREAT WRITE UP!

Thank you very much...!

Here a tiny bit of info for total newbies:

Another term for "Rated capacity" is the word "Nominal capacity", and i prefer the latter in RL although < rated capacity eneloop > is more popular with google.

And there is the "Minimal capacity". For a standard Eneloop AA, the minimal capacity is 1900mAh and its rated at 2000mAh, so the nominal capacity is 2000mAh.

When you have a charger with a digital display (BC-700 clone, Imax B6 clone, C9000, ..) and are asked to punch in the "Please set battery capacity: ...", then you always enter the nominal capacity ("2000") and never the minimal capacity ("1900").

This is interesting/important to know because when you look at the Eneloops itself, all you can read is "1900" on the physical cells. So the uninitiated will be tempted to run his/her BC-700 set to "1900" instead of "2000".

yeah dinoboy, good point made!

I was thinking that maybe the retail packages are filled with ®-symbol'ed cells because my white ones are original bulk cells bought from ebay, provided by various German sellers with direct bulk supply from Sanyo Europe.

But then i look at my glitter cells, and there is no ®-symbol either. (Glitter are always sold in retail packages, and i got mine in original German language packaging (bi-lingual), 8-pack.)

So the symbol has nothing to do with retail vs. bulk.

I would assume that the machinist who operated the printer had one nihonshu too much the weekend before

S)

kreisler wrote:

at the end of this year the 4th generation will be available in Japan, HR-4UTGC

this time not Disney (1800x), but maybe Sesamestreet (2000x). (kiddin. jus sayin)

2000x sounds good, i like it. better than "1800" (or why didnt they choose "1750"??).

We all know it's a marketing trick

That's right. Sometimes you gotta undersell yourself a little bit so you can leave enough for the next marketing push. If the 2nd generation was actually rated at 1650 but they could still only squeeze ~1800 out of the 3rd generation then you don't have as much separation to make it an effective selling point. Just food for thought 

kreisler wrote:

We all know it's a marketing trick

The increased number of charge cycles is not a marketing trick, it is achieved by making the cells more robust.  It's detailed in the brochure announcing the release of the 1500 cycle cells. So it's good for consumers either way. 

Great job, ChibiM! I didn't even realize they had improved the Eneloops again.

I bet there are some lab techs who just charge, discharge, and recharge Eneloops all the time. It took them a long time to get to 1,000. Then when they got 1,500 they started printing that on the packaging. Now they have finally gotten to 1,800 cycles, so they have changed the packaging again. It's just the same batteries! (just kidding, kind of)

I find it funny that people are collecting batteries because they look pretty. I must say I'm tempted too though, haha.

Here my own measurements of exact weight (measured with precision scale and with kitchen scale) and effective capacity (measured with C9000):

Eneloop AA Glitter (HR-3UTGA-8BP GLITTER):

Eneloop AAA (HR-4UTGA):

These numbers become relevant when you want to add the 1x Eneloop cell weight to (or substract from) the weight data given in flashlight reviews, manufacturer ads, and similar. Safe rounded values to use in your calculations are 11.7grams for 1x AAA Eneloops, and 26.0grams for 1x AA Eneloop Glitters. Sorry, i dont own any white AA Eneloops

adding to this thread. with my new accurate DMM and the C9000 i was able to measure that with an Eneloop AAA and -200mA discharge rate the C9000 discharges down to 0.90V (under load) and that this equals an offline voltage of 1.05V. Once offline and resting, the Eneloop AAA would then recover up to 1.19V within 2.0hrs. If you let the cell rest even longer, the stationary voltage point could lie even higher.

from these numbers you can calculate the sag to 0.15V and the recovery to 0.14V minimum, which makes a total of 0.29V (relative voltage).

*fyi* A so-called battery tester declares a cell dead when the sag approaches 0.0V. At that point the cell (e.g. Alkaline Duracell) might still bear a rest offline voltage of e.g. 0.3784V but this "amount" of absolute voltage is good for nothing (good for nothing like many of kreisler's smarta$$ posts haha).

For more on discharge and charge rates for Eneloops and Eneloop chargers please refer to the thread Where to get eneloop + charger?, thanks.

EDIT: after 1.0yrs the cell's capacity decreased a bit. the more relevant data is posted in veer's thread.

Thanks for this ChibiM!  I didn't know that there where new colored eneloops out there and I didn't even know they were numbered.  I have 16 each of the tones, glitters, costco tones, xxeloops and a ton of white eneloops. 

Now I need to add the new ones to my eneloop collection.

Still using my 2006 Eneloops, I've had a couple die (low capacity 1200mAh) the rest are approximately 1900 mAh.

They have had no special care, other than stored cells being cycled about every six months. 

I would never purchase any other brand of Nimh. 

I just saw in a store a Sanyo Eneloop Harmolattice 2500mAh AA (2400mAh minimum) battery. The part number is HR-3U25HM.  I think it is available only in Asia yet. It says 500 recharges, retains 75% charge after 1 year.  Is this the same product as the Eneloop XX? The XX doesn't have the "Harmolattice" description.  Is it newer/better than the other Eneloops?  What's your take on this guys....?

i have two concerns:

1.  The word 'eneloop' is not printed on the batt itself. It only says in the

      packet..'eneloop powered'.  Is this a true eneloop?

2.  I'll be having a Fenix TK41 (8aa batt).  Frequency of use: maybe 1 to 2 

     minutes/week, sometimes none at all..Which will be more practical...primary

     Energizer lithiums (claims of up to 10yrs shelf life) OR eneloops?  My lights

     stay inside its original box almost 100% of the time.  I don't want it 

     scratched! 

hi ChibM, 

            I just like  to point out that I did not say that they are fake Sanyos, but my concern is that are they 'eneloops' considering it's never printed in the label of the battery itself as 'ENELOOP'.   Although it says 'eneloop powered''  CHEERS !