Overnight Nimh Family Battery Charger
by Energizer Batteries
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Customer Review: Get the 15 Minute Charger Instead!
Summary: 2 Stars
I've had this for a year now, since my 15 minute charger died and I hate it! It takes 24 hours and does not fully charge the batteries! Don't purchase this if you are only using AAs or AAAs, get the 15-minute charger instead, it might get warmer and be a little noisy with the fan, but you will get much better use from your rechargeable batteries.Customer Review: Kids stuff for D-cells!
Summary: 1 Stars
If you are buying this charger for D-cell applications, especially: The original reason for a large D sized battery was for high demand applications needing higher capacity. 2500 mAh (AA-cell) capacities encased into a D-cell rechargeable negates the original reason for a D-cell in the first place. Do yourselves a big favor and pass on any "dumb" type charger, which is low current, and a timer only based charger. Also pass on the 2500 mAh D sized batteries that go along with them. They are nothing but AA equivalents inside a plastic shell. Look for a fast charger, which is "smart" with delta-V cutoff (charge based cutoff), and use 10,000 mAh D sized batteries to go with it. It will cost you a little more, especially the batteries, but it is well worth it! To charge a high capacity 10,000 mAh battery you need more charger that can deliver more current so that it does not take days to charge, and/or stop charging based on time for a low cap battery. Incidentally, regular alkaline D-cells are about 12,000 mAh, so if you think the 2,500 mAh cheapo (low capacity) batteries are going to give similar results in your device to alkalines, forget it. However, the high cap (10,000 mAh or greater) D-cells will give you similar if not better run times. Finally, this charger and other "dumb" type chargers WILL NOT charge odd numbers of batteries. You are forced to charge only in pairs. So if you have a device that does not use an even number of cells, you may have to keep an extra charged cell to use with a discharged one to charge that single cell, which will result in a constant overcharging of the "dummy" cell. Either that, or you have to have enough cells on hand to rotate them around. Real pain. This odd number problem will cause the same rotation dilema for AAA, AA, C, and Ds. Note: (Rayovac's P-93 will not fully charge 10,000 mAh D-cells).