A dutchie eh?
Fujitsu’s are basically eneloops but cheaper, can be bought at nkon.nl.
IKEA ladda’s are very good for the price too, can be bought from ikea.nl.
I`m looking for people that accidentally bought some knock offs (especially 4th gen whites, or PRO) . So I`m too reluctant to order eneloop batteries on eBay with the assumption in getting fakes but receiving authentic ones.
The question is: How would you know they are fake eneloops.
You need people with analyzing chargers that have tested real eneloops and then get some “eneloop” that do not match the ones they have tested.
There might be some, I am very curios how common fake eneloops are.
Aren’t there Eneloops for sale that are unrealistically too cheap? I mean not good deal cheap, but waaay too cheap? Should be guaranteed fake Eneloops or not?
Well, that`s the thing. I just searched on eBay, and they aren`t that cheap. At least I couldnt find some that looked obviously cheap.
Me too, I`m very curious if anybody got fake eneloops, how they determined that, and I would like to test them as well. Just for the sake of the information. Some would be obvious, some aren`t.
I have come across some info on 1-2nd generation fake white eneloops, but not 4th gen. Just some shots of a package without manufacturing date. Which I don`t consider obvious fake.
If you need cheap low selfdischarge nimh cells, you can buy Aldi Top Craft Ready To Use AA cells, they are pretty good (i use them, some are more than 5 years old, and there is only a small capacity loss).
Do not buy the Lidl Tronic 2400mAh ready to use AA cells because the real capacity is only about 1000mAh.
The Lidl Tronic 2300mAh version is good (and very cheap, 2,99 euro/4 cells in Belgium, Aldi Top Craft is 3,99 euro /4).
The real capacity is very close to 2300mAh, and the 1000mAh Tronic AAA ready to use cells also have a real capacity of 1000mAh (tested with the Maha charger).
These are very cheap alternatives for Eneloop cells, but if you have to charge them every day, the white Eneloop cells will probably last longer.
If you have to charge the cells every month, or a few times per year, than the Aldi and lidl cells wil last many years if you don’t drain them completely, and if they don’t get too hot during charging.
Powering your website with fake eneloops is a bad proposition
That said i can send you some old rayovac hybrids or energizers that have bitten the dust and you can rebadge them
And if all else fails and you get authentic eneloops you can send them to Bort
I once saw real fake Eneloops, meaning non-Eneloops yet labeled as such here in my place. If I happen to see them once again, I will take a photo on them and show it here, it might the ones you are ‘genuinely’ looking for!
I think Tatasal is getting the closest to what I want.
Im not interested in other brands.Only batteries that are labeled as eneloop but on the inside are not. Its a means of education so to say. I have only come across some old info, from 2010 that were clearly fake eneloops, but haven’t seen any 4th gen.
Thanks Bort for your offer. I will keep it in mind.