I forgot about these, so I am doing a 13-month test instead of 12-month. Not like it made much of a difference, since they are testing the same as they did at 6 months!
Also, my one month batteries hadn’t been charged again, so I drained those. I didn’t write down what capacity they had after the 1-month test, so I’m comparing them to the original measured capacity brand new.
I don’t have the new 2400 mAh batteries, and I’m not sure you can still buy these 2200mAh batteries, but their capacity and ability to hold a charge are excellent. I wonder how well they will hold up with a lot of cycles though.
I assume it is because of the fantastic first hand experience from these batteries?
I am looking to get a bunch of AA & AAA batteries so these may be an option for me!
I don’t have any Tenergy, but they seem like a cheap brand to me. Usually I get Eneloop or Duracell, but the Turnigy’s have been quite good. But they get pretty expensive once you inlcude shipping.
There’s no shipping cost when you self collect them from the hong kong post office. I wonder if someone like fasttech could purchase a whole lot then resell them at maybe 20% higher but with free shipping.
I’m thinking of replacing the AAA alkaline batteries that I have in my remotes by these turnigy LSD AAA. The initial cost is about twice compared to alkaline, so I need them to work for at least 6 years to gain something (a typical alkaline battery will last about 3 years in a remote in my experience).
Is this a good idea?
I don’t buy alkaline batteries anymore. You can use LSD batteries in a remote, but like you say, it will take a while to get any kind of return on your investment. Don’t forget the cost of shipping for the Turnigy batteries. For me, NiMH batteries usually cost about 4 times as much as cheap alkalines, so it would take me 12 years to see a financial return with your remote. For me, this would be the last device where I would make the switch, but I do have NiMH batteries in my remotes for the most part (except the remotes usually come with batteries, so I will use those first rather than let them go to waste) partly because I have a lot of LSD batteries and I’m coming out way ahead on some devices and don’t care if the return isn’t as great on a few other devices. I don’t know how long these batteries will last overall, but I have been using them pretty regularly since I wrote this article and none of them have gone bad on me (3 years). And I have other LSD batteries that are a couple of years older (eneloops) with no problems (6 years).
That’s really interesting. I regularly buy from hobbyking so adding a few AAA batteries doesn’t add any additional shipping cost.
It would very interesting if you could test one of your 3 years old Turnigy LSD cell to see if it’s still able to hold its initial capacity (2.2Ah) and if it lost its LSD properties. I read somewhere that cheap LSD cells tend to lose that property after a few years of use.
Is there anything to say about whether or not to condition LSD NiMH cells?
I’m curious if the tests were done on cells as purchased, or if the “conditioning cycle” routine was applied to them first.
I know (I think) that a conditioning cycle is useful for older regular NiMH that have started to lose capacity.
But I’ve never been very clear on whether it’s useful or not for LSD NiMH fresh out of the package to do a conditioning cycle.