Best £25 spent ever

[Stuart Truman]

I've attempted to be fairly green and buy rechargeable batteries. Despite looking after them the little charger we had kept indicating they were failed after a few charge cycles and it was becoming bloody expensive. It's fairly well documented how they grow crystals internally and go short circuit and its possible to zap them to destroy the crystals and revive them. I didn't fancy building a box to zap them and went looking for a better charger conditioner and found a really good one at Maplin. It's capable of "refreshing" the batteries and do far it's been 100% successful at bringing the supposedly dead ones back to life.

So if you're having troubles with short lifetime on rechargeable batteries give one of these a go, it's flippin' brilliant!

http://www.maplin.co.uk/professional-universal-battery-charger-612374

 

[andysat]

Thanks for the heads up mate!

 

[mmm-five]

I've still got some 1500mah ones from 10 years ago that I used for my 1/8th scale 3cc radio-controlled car. Broke the car a few years back (tried to jump it between 2 buildings) and then lost the charger.

I'd just bought a couple of sets from Amazon as I couldn't find them, and as soon as I stop looking I find the buggers. Seemed to charge okay with the Energiser Accu charger I got with a set of batteries (only does AA/AAA - which is fine for me). Got the charger (with selection of batteries), plus a couple of sets of AA and AAA for about £20 all in.