Eneloop Quick Charger with 4x 'AA' Batteries for $34.99 Delivered @ Dick Smith

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PAnnoying Source on 22/03/2014 - 17:07 dicksmith.com.au (409 clicks)
Last edited 22/03/2014 - 20:50 by 1 other user

This is a nice quick charger for all of the Eneloop batteries you guys have been buying, that is if the normal charger isn't fast enough.

Obviously this isn't as good as any of the other deals, but it is the first time (I have seen) the quick charger is on sale.

Not sure how long the price will stay like this, it says it ends tomorrow and the free shipping is for today only, but we all know dick smith like to extend sales or end sales early.

It is $29.99 at masters but if you can't pick it up shipping is $8.95, so this deal is about $4 cheaper

EDIT:

Some of you didn't seem to read it properly, this is for the Quick Charger the great deals last week was for the Standard Charger.

Also for those wondering this is the link to the masters deal:
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/136316

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  uncyspam on 22/03/2014 - 17:09

  +2

  the chargers are garbage. not a very good deal at all.

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    Tuba on 22/03/2014 - 19:40

    +4

    This is the good charger. The recent deals had the dumb charger, but plenty of batteries. This one has delta v and delta t termination. It is a proper smart charger. It also had individual channel control. It will only give each battery what it needs, no over charging. No need to charge in pairs as you do witht he other charger. This just lacks features like discharge to allow conditioning, and digital readouts for details like mAh taken to charge it (not that that feature is accurate as there is a fair bit f waste due to inefficiencies in the nimh charging process).

    Normal price for this was $49.99 at DSE. Its been cheaper, and I read below its cheaper at Masters, not sure if its the same charger though.

    This is the good one.

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  Tal_Shiar on 22/03/2014 - 17:15

  Apt account name considering how recently a lot of us got these so cheap

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  OzBragain on 22/03/2014 - 17:16

  Everyone should have enough spare Eneloops by now to have a charged set laying around. Fast charging will just give you a shorter battery life

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  Gravy on 22/03/2014 - 18:33

  If I charge my eneloops with a regular nimh fast charger, but stop the charge cycle around midway and give them a chance to cool a bit then start charging again is that likely to be less damaging to them?

  Just debating whether to bother spending the money on a dedicated eneloop charger or just opting for less battery life over time.

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    NachoMafia on 22/03/2014 - 19:23

    I highly recommend picking up a good charger. I recently grabbed the same one many others have recommended https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/134584 and it is great.

    The best thing I've found with this charger is you get info about the state of a battery. I had one Eneloop that wasn't charging fully (made sense as the device I used it in drove it flat quickly). The device used 3 AA, the charger showed which one was not charging fully. The best bit though… The charger has a 'refresh' mode which discharges/charges the problem battery back to full capacity. It worked a treat!

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    cainn on 22/03/2014 - 19:23

    I don't care if my Eneloops only last 200 cycles before they start to appreciably drop in capacity. 200 cycles is still a lot, and a perfectly acceptable trade-off for the freedom and convenience that quick-charging brings to the table. As such, although I normally always charge at 0.5c (1A), I have no qualms whatsoever about charging at 1c (2A) whenever I feel the need. I didn't just pluck those numbers out of the air either: http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?219301-En…

    In reality I'll get considerably more than 200 useful cycles out of my Eneloops because I don't work them hard all the time, and because I'm pretty sure that the latest incarnations are even better than those tested above.

    If you can live with that, do yourself a favour and ignore the "quick-charging is evil" brigade.

    One thing I would recommend though is a feature-rich charger that can do battery conditioning, as it is occasionally necessary in order to maintain optimal performance throughout the battery life-cycle, whatever you decide that is going to be.

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      OzBragain on 22/03/2014 - 20:40

      So you're saying

      • Fast charging will kill batteries faster and you don't care if you get a little more than 10% of the rated cycles out of your Eneloops.

      • Don't buy this charger

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        cainn on 22/03/2014 - 21:41

        First of all, you don't really get 1800 cycles out of Eneloops. That rating is based on the number of cycles it takes before they degrade to 50% of their rated capacity. I'd be replacing them well before that, and so would anyone who actually cares about battery performance.

        Second, if you charge at 1C, and discharge at 1C, you can get at least 200 cycles before capacity degrades to any appreciable degree at all. And that's with a previous generation of Eneloop. But the reality is that not everyone who charges at 1C is going to be using their Eneloops in devices that pull 2A, and that fact alone makes a difference. Further, fast charging doesn't always mean 2A. For me it most often means 1A. These factors and others conspire to ensure that you'd get considerably more than 200 usable cycles, as I already noted.

        Finally, I didn't say anything about the quality of this particular Eneloop charger. The person I responded to wasn't talking about it, and I actually recommended something else. It's probably fine for people who aren't really into battery management and/or who don't want to fork out for something with more features. Personally I wouldn't want to be without my MH-C9000, or something similar.

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  AMLagonda on 22/03/2014 - 18:50

  Odd this is the most expensive I have seen this charger, not a bargain.

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    superforever on 22/03/2014 - 18:54

    He got no idea how cheap we just bought.

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      AMLagonda on 22/03/2014 - 19:11

      Well it would have been cheap if I had actually got the darn thing :/ mine hasnt been sent off yet.

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        superforever on 22/03/2014 - 20:34

        -1

        Call their 1300 number.

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      bentan77 on 22/03/2014 - 19:11

      +1

      I thought everyone got the regular charger, not the quick.

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        cainn on 22/03/2014 - 19:27

        +2

        Yes they did, but people are always failing to differentiate between the two.

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  [Deactivated] on 23/03/2014 - 11:15

  I'm pretty sure that this is a smart charger, without the mah display.

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  yedija on 23/03/2014 - 21:47

  Monday its gonna be 11% cheaper according to this

  https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/137775

  1pm to midnight on monday =p