I was wondering if there’s any info about IKEA LADDA Ready-To-Use batteries around here?
Did a search and found 1 post from driveX who bought these 2 months ago but was wondering if anybody has more information about them, for example how they compare to eneloop?
The ikea ones are 4€/5.44$ for a 4pack and cheapest eneloops are around 8€/10.88$ for a 4pack. Ikea ones can be picked up at the store and the eneloops would have shipping costs added to them. So if the ikea ones are decent enough I will pick up a couple of packs.
We have something called “de consumentenbond” it’s an organization based on testing stuff and giving advise and they tested these as the best, but they did not include eneloops or duraloops so no way to compare them.
If there’s no info available I will buy a pack of aa and aaa when I’m in the neighborhood and do some testings myself to provide the information
Yeah, that’s what I’m planning to do, but if someone had tested and results are that they are totally worthless I wouldn’t have to bother, and if the results are that they are as good as eneloop I would buy several packs at once
But otherwise I’ll get a pack of AA’s and AAA’s and do some testing.
The latest test from the 'consumentenbond' from may 2013 did include Eneloops (XX 2400 mAh) and the ikea ones (2000 mAh), Eneloops scored best at 9.1 ,ikea were second at 8.3, the next one ( a GP) scored 7.7 . So ikea indeed scored very good but not as good as Eneloops (but are way cheaper)
I have some of the cheap lsds from different discounters, capacity is higher or equal to eneloop but the voltage is way lower.
So no more cheap nimh for me…
I wonder if it might be worth shipping a pack to HKJ for testing? We could see the discharge graphs overlaid with the eneloop ones and know exactly how they compare?
I’ll keep an eye out for them next time I am in an IKEA.
Thank you for the information. I’m not a member of “de consumentenbond” myself and had to rely on information I could find on other websites about it. They claimed ikea tested best, but that’s probably because of their lower price. Comparing the XX isn’t a fair comparison either.
nkon It’s a dutch seller but he does ship abroad as far as I know.
Price does not include shipping so it might not be cheaper with shipping.
Yes.
IKEA carries several types of batteries nowadays. The yellow/yellow+silver ALKALISK line are none rechargables. The green+silver LADDA are. But watch out when buying. They used to have normal rechargables also called LADDA. I can’t find them on the website anymore so don’t know if they are only carrying the Ready-To-Use now, but double check to make sure!
The normal LADDA used to be full green, but as the ALKALISK used to be full yellow also and are now yellow silver I’m not sure if you can only tell the difference by looking at the color.
Yes.
IKEA carries several types of batteries nowadays. The yellow/yellow+silver ALKALISK line are none rechargables. The green+silver LADDA are. But watch out when buying. They used to have normal rechargables also called LADDA. I can’t find them on the website anymore so don’t know if they are only carrying the Ready-To-Use now, but double check to make sure!
The normal LADDA used to be full green, but as the ALKALISK used to be full yellow also and are now yellow silver I’m not sure if you can only tell the difference by looking at the color.
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I’m at IKEA often, for lunch! I have seen the YELLOW batteries but I don’t ever recall seeing rechargeables. I will look closer on my next trip. The poster mentioned $5.50? And someone said they are excellent in quality? I’ll have to pick some up.
I bought a set to try. I am doing break in cycles now, they are showing between 2200-2250 at 350ma discharge current, I think this is the second discharge cycle.
So the capacity seems pretty good, I don’t know yet the LSD capabilities, nor the high current delivery behavior.
I’d like to see a proper test with several discharge currents and graphs coming from some Danish battery guru
I suppose you mean the current they are able to deliver (which causes a voltage sag when the required current is higher than the current the batt can deliver)
Anyway I didn’t buy them trying to compare them to eneloops, I have 24 eneloops for the most current hungry devices, and my plan with these ikea sets is to use them in my toddler’s toys, remotes, keyboard and mouse….if they can mantain a 70% or more charge for more than 6 months, they are perfect for my intended use
Today I came very close by an IKEA so decided to pick up a pack.
Bought a set of AA’s and AAA’s
The AAA’s production date is 2013-10-10
The AA’s production date is 2013-07-02
They are white top batteries, so maybe they are rebranded eneloops?
I don’t know how to tell or how to be sure.
I’m going to do an initial discharge to see how much juice they have left.
Will post the results when ready.
I also saw they only carried the ready to use type. So I assume this is the same for every IKEA store.
edit: I see they are made in china, and from what I have found this means they are not rebranded eneloop. Don’t know if this is correct but it’s likely they are not.
These are not eneloops, it are just generic Chinese LSD nimh.
I found a German test, they used this standard charger with the 4 displays, to charge and discharge a bunch of batteries 100 times.
The laddas had still the same capacity, so they are kind of reliable.
But they did not monitor the discharge voltage, so there is no real comparison to other batts possible.
I just editted my post. They are made in china. Your message confirms what I had found that these are not rebranded eneloop.
I own an accucel 6 and a maha c9000 so I can do some testing but not as extensive as HKJ can. I also don’t know if 1A is high enough to fully test them to compare.
