Need another 8 pack of quality NiMHs. Who has great deal right now?

Batteries and Chargers Rechargeable Batteries
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I would say speculations are wrong. I believe Sanyo is not the only ones making LSD NiMH these days, whether they’re allowed or not. The Ikea batteries differ in performance from Eneloops, which I would not expect from simply a rebranded Eneloop. Plus, I’ve seen different LSD batteries from the same vendor with different specs, sold concurrently [Rayovac, I believe].
New Ikea batteries having worse performance than well-used Eneloops in a photography flash bulb:

Also, it’s debatable whether the Ikea ones are really Low Self Discharge. I’d say they’re not, and apparently Ikea agrees with me. Did you catch that on the web page for these Ikea cells, they never mention Low Self Discharge OR pre-charged/ready to use? It would not make sense for them to not mention this—as that would be a major feature. In reality, maybe they’re in-between, maybe call them “LowER” Self Discharge? (LerD?) Link below mentioned 75% capacity after 6 months.

So, no Ikea cells for me. Thanks, though. I like my LSD (the battery form, anyway).
Oh, and it pains me to post a link from CPF, but at least we are allowed to post links of theirs here. Those tools aren’t even allowed to post BLF links on their forum (I’ve read here, of course—LOLOL). They also mention Aldi batteries which, again, are different in performance (worse) than both Eneloops and the white Ikea ones.
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?387711
It makes me laugh in side to read CPF royalty (er, more vassals/subjects/captives) discussing shopping at Aldi.

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1. It is your speculation vs others’ speculations. No reason to believe you’re better at it.
2. Does Sanyo even exist today? It’s Fujitsu/FDK that owns the factory that Sanyo used to.
3. Nobody here says FDK (Sanyo, according to you) is the only NiMH maker in the world.
4. FDK is the only known NiMH maker to have a factory in Japan.
5. You are confusing the China made Green/Silver Ladda with the White Ladda.
6. Your YouTube link shows the inferior Green/Silver version.
7. Your CPF link doesn’t say which version of Ladda. But judging by the date and location (Australia) of the original poster, it is overwhelmingly evident he is, again, talking about the older, inferior Green/Silver Ladda.

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Also, package labeling and info on IKEA’s web site clearly states ‘Ready to use’ on the white Ladda, which is consumer speak for LSD. Do you think IKEA would want to incur the wrath of its customers if they crack open a pack of one year old Laddas only to find them out of juice, when the specs clearly states ‘Ready to use’ and 5 year ‘life’?

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Cheap presumptions do not neccessarily step us up into the light…

GB is a global retailer. All of my latest battery shipments seem to have been served from europe mainland, to the point that I've not needed to pay the lately usual $2 shipping fee in my latest order, just $0'19 for a tracking number. And shipping is fast (for me). :CROWN:

Checked out HKJ's review of the Xiaomi ZI5s. I see a flash sale price of $10'59 for a 4-pack of them; seems nice to me.

^:)

P.S.: a tad off topic but, what's this ? Seems the usual pile of sheesh to me. :FACEPALM:

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That brought me a smile too. After spending as much as they think you must for a good flashlight perhaps that’s the best they can afford :stuck_out_tongue: I also noted the CPF thread is a couple years old-much can change in that amount of time. Ikea websites I’ve found won’t ship these, and the nearest store is much too far for me :frowning: Even if they’re not Eneloop-grade at the price asked they seem a good deal. I’m going to have to get something this weekend myself, my 8AA worklight is rapidly eating up my stashed alki’s.

Phil

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For budget minded buyers who don’t have IKEA nearby, consider Amazon Basics from
Amazon, eneloop from Costco, or (sometimes on sale) Fujitsu FDKs from Newegg. Failing all that, there’s some Utah based eBay sellers of Fujitsu FDKs as well.

Or PM me, I’ll be happy to get you some of those white labeled IKEA Ladda at my cost (battery+tax+postage).

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I have too many eneloops and other FDK NiMH LSD batteries already! Didn’t stop me from picking up 8 Fujitsu LSDs for $10 from newegg just last week though.

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Hello!

Just took a look at FT and saw this: NICJOY 1.2V "2550mAh" AA Rechargeable Ni-MH Batteries (2-Pack)

Reported to be rewrapped Eneloop PROs on the associated product discussion thread.

Cheers ^:)

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ACK! how did I miss that one (sigh)

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Sign up for slickdeals.net email alert, keywords ‘eneloop’ and ‘fujitsu’. You’ll never miss another newegg Fujitsu deal again because someone ALWAYS post about it. Good luck.

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Enelooper, a little defensive-sounding (not necessary), but great information and corrections. You’re right, I went back to Ikea’s US product page and did a text search. This info is not in the main, top blurb, where it would be most-likely to be read. You have to click on “Read More” or scroll down to the BOTTOM of the page, and in really SMALL type, I found these words:
“- The battery is ready to use.”
So, yep, confirmed, they are LSD.

Ikea is doing a VERY poor job of marketing on these. Totally under-selling them.
I know it’s dumb, but I also like that the label is white, similar to the original Eneloops. Thanks, Enelooper. I may pick some up! Apparently you can’t even check their website to check which store has them. I guess you need to call the store, or stop in.
Here is the link:
AA:

AAA:

Anyone got any views on this Ikea USB NiMH charger? Is this a rebranded Sanyo charger as well? It looks vaguely similar to the original Eneloop USB charger (not available in the US anywhere I can find, at least sold separately), but certainly not identical. Only $3… it is difficult to find a USB-powered charger which charges properly.

Any ideas? All the lygte-info.dk reviews of fancier USB-powered lithium/NiMH chargers were pessimistic on the NiMH portion of their review (I’ve read Xtar, LiioKala, Opus).
http://www.lygte-info.dk/info/indexBatteriesAndChargers%20UK.html

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hm, I got way too much email from slickdeals, long ago, and gave up trying to reduce its eagerness to sell me s*.
Tried it tonight and got

and slickdeals.net doesn’t open at all

fooey.

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Sorry but that's a dodgy charger: Charger Ikea Vinninge 403.036.32

Can't go wrong with the LiitoKala Lii-100, $3'89 at GB right now.

Cheers ^:)

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That’s an HSTS error. (Kind of an enhanced form of SSL, IIUC.) I’ve been seeing those a lot. In both Firefox and IE, but not necessarily at the same time, strangely! In fact, the best (only) way I’ve figured out how to counter it, is to use a different browser (or just wait till the next day—seems to go away on its own). Seen it the most on PayPal login trying to get into Ebay, but elsewhere too. It’s causing some real problems.
Another thing I’ve noticed is sites which force every page to be HTTPS. Even if you manually put HTTP, it immediately forces it back to HTTPS. Despite the page being public and static, and encryption therefore doing little to no good. But worse, if something is wrong with SSL, you can’t see the page - or even whole site - at all! I’m pro-E2E encryption, but there are ways to do it, and ways not to do it.

Aw, thanks so much for that link Barkuti!! (Hey, I’ve seen you on other sites! Who could forget a face like that!) I’ve been poring over lygte-info.de’s site lately, and missed it! This was the only “review” I found, but it’s no lygte-info.dk review!
Review: Sanyo’s USB Powered NiMH Charger

Well, it may not be as bad as I thought. The review said it’s okay if you’re using the 2450mAh cells, AND if they’re empty. Timed charge. WOW. That’s a first for me. He didn’t talk much about the possibility of the cells getting damaged (like cells getting hot, overcharged, or charging going on forever), at least if just used occasionally. I’m actually only interested in a USB charger for emergency backup purposes, basically. Like charging off of solar USB. Frankly, his review was a little BETTER than I was expecting.

This “timer” thing, though, is making me doubt my Original Eneloop (white/4-parallel) AA/AAA charger. I think most of us have one (no lygte-info on that, checked). I always noticed the cells were quite hot at the end of a charge, and it always worried me. But, I thought, this Sanyo Eneloop charger is made for these batteries, it must be good anyway? I mean, charging seemed to drag on forever. I’d take a cell off to measure, and the voltage was high—but the charger said it wasn’t done? Thoughts or tips? That’s really my main charger if I want to charge more than one AA cell right now [see below].

Bought one! Thanks! However, lygte-info’s review wasn’t all that good of this charger’s NiMH charging ability. Then again, I haven’t read a single positive review by him of any charger’s NiMH capability, that’s USB-powerable.

Lygte-info.dk’s LiitoKala Lii-100 review
http://lygte-info.dk/review/Review%20Charger%20LiitoKala%20Lii-100%20UK.html

^Upon review… yeah, that probably IS the most ‘positive’ review of USB-powered NiMH charging I’ve read by Lygte-info (so far; any other ideas welcome). Hm. Then again, I haven’t seen Lygte-info give a “glowing” review of anything. That charger is a mind-blowing value. Actually, I only encountered the brand LiitoKala recently (even harder to write than “lygte-info.dk”), and everything I’ve seen seems to be good stuff at a great value.

BTW, anyone know what “Lygte” is, is that a flashlight brand? He really has a surprising amount of (incredibly in-depth) reviews. The trick is finding the review when it’s a review of a more-obscure, no-name item.

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If your Ni-MHs get too hot they may be getting overcharged; since they get charged with a constant current profile, the overheating syndrome will start to be noticeable once the cell gets full. For a brand new 2000mAh cell being charged at 1000mA, this should happen at or slightly above the two hour mark.

Check here: BU-408: Charging Nickel-metal-hydride (@Battery University)

I remember having read somewhere that earlier Ni-MHs were noticeably more overcharge/trickle charge tolerant, but the “mechanism” which made this possible was removed in the name of the race for increased capacity. :FACEPALM:

If you have and old, decently powered USB hub (I have a pretty old USB1.1 one fed with one of those indestructible vintage brick and mortar linear 2100mA PSUs) and or spare micro-USB chargers PSUs you can manage to power up multiple Lii-100s, lol!

Cheers ^:)

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“lygte” is (per Google Translate) Danish for “lamp”