Years ago I bought a Bosch laser distance finder to help with site surveys. I left the job for which I used it sometime in 2013 as I recall. Ended up getting another job in the same field ~2 years later but when I had need of the distance finder again I couldn't find it, so I just bought another. Yesterday I was looking for some tools in my storage locker and found this distance finder in the bottom of a box of random crap (I am slowly sorting and properly storing everything, I promise) brought it home and threw the batteries (4xAAA Eneloops) on my C9000. They charged up to full in less than 15 minutes - low self discharge is apparently real! I am assuming that the cells must have been fully charged when I put it away.
So far I have been using Eneloops or other similar cells (Duraloops, Ikea Ladda, etc.) in everything I can. They even have worked for me in outdoor weather stations and fridge/freezer temp monitoring devices, where they are less than ideal - I figure if they last a couple cycles they are still cheaper than Energizer Lithium.
I gotta admit I'm impressed by this performance. So far I currently only have a handful of devices that I'm using Energizer Lithiums in - off the top of my head, there's a little mini flashlight in the glovebox of my car that's never used, and then the original remote control for an old NEC S-VHS VCR has a LCD display on it that you can't see when powered with NiMH (to be fair, it was made in 1988, so NiMH compatibility was likely not a concern.) Everything else gets NiMH because I've eradicated all alkalines from my life because I noticed that I started getting a lot more leakers 10-15 years ago. In fact I want to say that this very distance finder that prompted this thread I had to flush out once because of leaking alkalines, so it's entirely possible that the Eneloops I found in it are some of the first that I bought, back when you had to mail order them because you couldn't find LSD NiMHs in stores anywhere.
Also validating my use of Eneloops - when you figure how long this was "stored" what do you think the odds are that alkalines would not have leaked in it? Thing still works, so now I have a backup.
So far I have been using Eneloops or other similar cells (Duraloops, Ikea Ladda, etc.) in everything I can. They even have worked for me in outdoor weather stations and fridge/freezer temp monitoring devices, where they are less than ideal - I figure if they last a couple cycles they are still cheaper than Energizer Lithium.
I gotta admit I'm impressed by this performance. So far I currently only have a handful of devices that I'm using Energizer Lithiums in - off the top of my head, there's a little mini flashlight in the glovebox of my car that's never used, and then the original remote control for an old NEC S-VHS VCR has a LCD display on it that you can't see when powered with NiMH (to be fair, it was made in 1988, so NiMH compatibility was likely not a concern.) Everything else gets NiMH because I've eradicated all alkalines from my life because I noticed that I started getting a lot more leakers 10-15 years ago. In fact I want to say that this very distance finder that prompted this thread I had to flush out once because of leaking alkalines, so it's entirely possible that the Eneloops I found in it are some of the first that I bought, back when you had to mail order them because you couldn't find LSD NiMHs in stores anywhere.
Also validating my use of Eneloops - when you figure how long this was "stored" what do you think the odds are that alkalines would not have leaked in it? Thing still works, so now I have a backup.
