A sad day in history for all Eneloop fans... April 26 2013.......Eneloop gets a make-over

[BanglaBob]

@bose301s

I don’t really give a crap what they’re labeled, once they’re in something I can’t see the label anyway, all I care is about performance.

+1. As long as they perform up to spec, it doesn’t matter what they’re called.
The main criteria (for me) where batteries are concerned is reliability and consistency.
They could call it DUMBFIRE for all I care…

[Steve_the_Chief]

If the Sanyo brand is being phased out, I wonder what will happen to Piccadilly Circus!

[HEY_HEY_ITS_HENDO]

@Wilson

They could have rebranded them “PanFire”

lmao! :bigsmile:

[Chicago_X]

I wonder if Eneloopy will get a new brother/sister named Panaloopy ?

[brad]

I wonder when Americans will be able to buy them?

[lionheart_2281]

@fishinfool

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

Your collection might go up in price!!

[baterija]

@Chloe

@brted

It doesn’t seem like you would want to eliminate a world-leading product name like eneloop.

I don’t think eneloop is a household name. Most people have probably heard of Panasonic though. So maybe it’s for marketing to a wider consumer base.

Chloe, that was my first thought. If this increases those buying good cells over brands they recognize it’s good for those of us already in the know. It potentially results in wider availability and/or more R&D dollars.

[Robert_Barr]

@DBCstm

This just makes it that much easier for me to use Imedion cells from Maha. Same tech, higher capacities. Thomas Distributing has good prices on em and sells a bundle of 16 AA’s. Might actually be time for another bundle and move some of my older cells to the kids toys.

Exactly. I mean, we have some ferocious Eneloop fans here, and condolences on the change in labeling, but I’ve used Maha batteries and chargers for ages with terrific results. They last forever — every set I’ve ever purchased is still in use and still performing — and if you need the higher capacity, there’s their Powerex (non-LSD). I started using them early on, for SLR flash units, which digest AA’s like some sort of hotdog-eating contest.

[fishinfool]

@bose301s

WHO CARES!!! Unless you display your batteries for others to see or spend time looking at them out of a device, and if you do you have much larger problems, it doesn’t make one damn bit of difference. It is NOT at all like putting a VW sign on a Porsche because that’s an exterior people are meant to see everyday, batteries are meant to go in something and not be thought about or looked at again until they have to be changed.

I care!

[panthervision23]

Yes it’s cute. Or should I say ‘kawaii’. :8)

[Pulsar]

@fishinfool

@bose301s

WHO CARES!!! Unless you display your batteries for others to see or spend time looking at them out of a device, and if you do you have much larger problems, it doesn’t make one damn bit of difference. It is NOT at all like putting a VW sign on a Porsche because that’s an exterior people are meant to see everyday, batteries are meant to go in something and not be thought about or looked at again until they have to be changed.

I care!

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haha, you show him.

[fishinfool]

@lionheart_2281

@fishinfool

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

“Your collection”:My Sanyo Eneloop Obsession....I mean collection. might go up in price!!

Yes, yes it will.

[fishinfool]

@Pulsar

@fishinfool

@bose301s

WHO CARES!!! Unless you display your batteries for others to see or spend time looking at them out of a device, and if you do you have much larger problems, it doesn’t make one damn bit of difference. It is NOT at all like putting a VW sign on a Porsche because that’s an exterior people are meant to see everyday, batteries are meant to go in something and not be thought about or looked at again until they have to be changed.

I care!

haha, you show him.

[fishinfool]

@fnsooner

@fishinfool

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now that is funny. Look at it this way. There will be no more Eneloops to tempt you and you have the best collection I have ever seen and it should stay that way.

Thank you! And that's how it should be!

[C-channel]

I prefer sanyo eneloops too.

[DB_Custom (Dale)]

After all is said and done, and the laughter of the moon fading away, I guess I have to side with

Bose

I mean, really, plug em in and run. They work well buy more, they don’t…switch brands. I still use some of my first Eneloops in my Canon 580EX flash unit, but have far more of the Maha Imedion brand now….they have larger capacity but other than that they perform the same. Performance is what matters. What if they didn’t put VW on the outside of the Porsche but put a VW engine in it? Still want the Porsche? Hey, it’s carries the badge right? So just what are you buying? The nameplate or the performance?

I expect my flash units to perform, count on them to do just that. 500 consecutive shots at a wedding in about 2-3 hours, I’ll pull em and throw some more in and keep shooting. Ok, they’re on fire when I pull em, but they get a nice lil break til next time Some of my low self discharge cells are 10 years old. And still going and going and going….

[iron_potato]

SAD :_(

I much prefers the eneloop wording on the wrapper.

Ouu how I wish to get hold of the Rouge / UOMO set from you before they are all gone

While I wait patiently for my Tones Chocolat set to arrive

[Chloe]

I wish all my batteries were pink and glittery or shiny purple like in the Rouge set.

[ChibiM]

Yes, the rouge batteries are definitely shiny and pink, and actually look very nice being it that they are pink! Very bright and colorful.

[kralyevski]

will they remain to be Made in Japan or what?