Amazon 20 AA Low Discharge Emergency Batteries

[Papuga]

These batteries are NO ENELOOP SUBSTITUTION, they are worse than some of the Energizer 2500's. They arrived almost completely flat, testing on MTS-1 battery tester showed that available capacity was less than 30% on all but 2 batteries, the two remaining batteries showed 80%.

Charging was another experience, NONE of the batteries were detected by the Maha C9000 charger or my Ansmann Energy 16. My LaCrosse BC-900 did detect some of them, but refused to charge 50% of the remaining batteries. The more forgiving Maha 801 charger did recognize the batteries, and charged all 20 of them until the display showed "Done".

I tested all of the batteries after charging and the MTS showed 100%, on my WMR analyzer, a sample of 10 batteries showed that they had a capacity of 2100mAH. 5 days after being charged, 16 of the 20 batteries read less that 60% capacity on the MTS and had a analyzed capacity of 840mAH or less.

Save your money, don't waste your time, these batteries are crap. I will use them only in my child's toys and her favorite night light.

It proves conclusively that in this world you get what you pay for, and if a deal looks too good to be true, it usually is.

 

[LED-holic]

Thanks for the warning and info.

 

[cheetokhan]

I learned my lesson a few years ago when I ordered a big batch of off brand AAs from Thomas Distributing. Had a few dead cells that wouldn't take a charge, several more that only held a very slight charge, and the rest all leaked or died within the next several months.
Complete waste of money.