Energizer Family Battery Charger
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Customer Review: Consistent performer year after year
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this charger at a local electronics store 3-4 years ago, hoping it could cut down on AA batteries for a few basic things (remote control, mini maglight, etc). It's exceeded all of my expectations and I now use it to charge batteries for just about everything.
I have dozens of AA, AAA, C, and D batteries in rotation. I'm an avid photographer and am using it to charge AAs for my speedlights every few days, so it gets a lot of use. In several years, I've never had a single problem with the charger. It always just works. It's reasonably fast. And the battery lifetimes always meet my expectations.
I've only ever used the Energizer brand rechargeable batteries and only the high-capacity ones (e.g. 2450 or 2500 mAH for AAs), so I can't say whether it works with other brands. I wouldn't expect it to.
I can't begin to fathom how much money rechargeables have saved me in these 3-4 years. I still haven't had to replace a single rechargeable battery (even my first ones are going strong). Camera equipment, flashlights, remotes, wireless video game controllers, kids toys, clocks. Turns out I had a lot more batteries in use around my house than I realized and now they're all recharged, basically for free.
Customer Review: Excellent charger
Summary: 5 Stars
As a rechargeable battery fan, I've owned many 4-cell chargers.
Then I began to use 15+ AAA NiMH batteries per day at work; I was tired of the 4-cell chargers, some of which would end up uncomfortably warm.
I saw the "Energizer Family Charger" and bought it mostly because it would charge up to 8 batteries, in about 6 hours -- I could charge a set while I was at work and one overnight.
After a couple of months of frequent use, we reduced usage to about 20 batteries/week and then the projects been on hold.
But in that time this charger has been absolutely a great buy.
Pro:
- Bad Cell detection. When you have 40+ cells that you use on a regular basis, some will die. Without
some method to discover bad cells, you'll waste a lot of time trying to discover the problem.
- 1-cell charging. This charge has 4 "slots" each of which will hold 1 or 2 cells. So, if you're
like me with a bunch of 3-cell devices, this offers you a solution that most do not.
Cons:
- kind of pricey.
In fact I like this charger so much, it's the only one I use at home.
Customer Review: Works as advertised
Summary: 4 Stars
I use 'D' and 'C' batteries in flashlights. I've been very happy with the rechargeable AAA and AA batteries, but I wanted to use the same technology to power simple flashlights.
I purchased the charger and several C and D batteries. They charged up and run fine. The longevity seems OK; I guess I will see if it holds up over time.
The only problem I've had is with the sliding, adjustable negative contacts on the battery. It slides so the charger will handle different sizes of batteries; the physical sizes vary. However, I found it difficult to get the D batteries in, and I apparently bent one of the sliders (the sliders are in the shape of an 'L'). I bent it back and it seems to work, but I worry about how long it's going to work, putting batteries in and taking them out. I would suggest a slightly wider slider, so it won't bend in the first place.
Recommended. It seems to do its job, and in a decent fashion.
Customer Review: All But 1 Pair of Charge Bays Died
Summary: 2 Stars
I lost use of three of the four charge bay pairs in about a year. I thought it was maybe because I had it plugged directly into what was a bad outlet at my church, but it was the only thing that was damaged on that outlet. Plus, I am seeing many similar experiences on Amazon. Even when it was working, I didn't like that it only charged AAA and AAA batteres in pairs, but I could have lived with that if the thing just worked at all! If you need an 8-bay charger, I would definitely not recommend this one. Not because of its lack of higher end features such as individual battery charging circuits, slow-charging options, and rejuvenating circuitry, because it is priced accurately enough to not include those features and is not marketed as a "professional" model. I wouldn't recommend it because it is likely to fail, based on my experience. You have been warned!Customer Review: not really sure if it fully works!
Summary: 3 Stars
This system definitely does charge, the question is, does it FULLY charge. When our son's favorite toy died we put 3 AA batteries in it that were rechargeable. The batteries eventually needed a charge, so we popped them out of the toy and placed them in this charger and charged them all night. The next day we put them back into his toy (which is the singing seahorse ... kind of like the glowworm...) and when we turned it on the songs sounded funky, almost like the batteries were dying again! I'm pretty sure that this is not a battery thing because I put the batteries in a different charger and they seemed to charge just fine! I'm not saying it doesn't work at all, I'm just wondering if it stops charging before the battery is fully charged...?