Tenergy enters the LSD NiMH Market . . .

[coppertrail]

Tenergy 2300 mAh LSD AA

Tenergy 1000 mAh LSD AAA

It will be interesting to see how they hold up against eneloop.

 

[Darkpower]

12 for $22 is a good price and AA at 2300 mA/hr and AAA at 1000 mA/hr sounds almost too good to be true. Time will tell.

Thanks for the heads up.

I have dealt several times with Tenergy and I have an account with them and they have been quite decent in the past. I am quite happy with their RCR123 900 mA and their C and D cell NiMh.

 

[TorchBoy]

"Yeah, right." I'll believe those capacities (alongside the LSD claim) when SilverFox verifies it. It reminds me of the claims on the new Energizer packaging. Nothing had changed with the batteries though.

 

[mdocod]

their C and D cells aint bad in my experience, the AAAs and AAs are kinda hit and miss, I've had some duds, and some under-performers.

If they are anything like other tenergy AAA/AA cells, they will have a broad range of capacity, somewhere around 1700-2200mAH for the AAs, and somewhere around 500-750mAH for the AAAs. Many of my 2600mAH AA Tenergy cells actually came pretty close to their rating (over 2500 by my testing methods), but quite a few have been lower than that. The consistancy is the main problem with the Tenergy/Powerizer cells IMO, other than the consistency issues they aren't too bad, I've used the 2600s to drive an ROP, and they drive it nearly as bright as my eneloops, so they handle the current reasonably well.

 

[tslrc]

Who makes the Tenergy cells? Since there are only 3 manufacturers of LSD's, I'm curious.

 

[mdocod]

I guarantee there are now 4

 

[s002cjs]

Initial test results on these...

Got my packs (just happened to be watching for some AAA's), so got them and tested them in a BC-900.

Testing the first package of 4, I'll list the range of results:


Claimed capacity: 1000 mAh

Tested voltage out of package: 1.31-1.32 volts

BC-900 'test' cycle 1:
Discharged/recharged to 1.46-1.48 volts
Tested capacities (mAh): 722 788 737 743

BC-900 'test' cycle 2 (same set of batteries):
Discharged/recharged to 1.46-1.48 volts
Tested capacities (mAh): 763 750 783 813 (same batteries, same order as before)

 

[Daekar]

OK, so while they're hardly at spec (who expected them to be?) they're pretty smack dab where they should be. Not too shabby.

 

[f22shift]

tenergys are rubbish in my experience. i bought the 20pk aa 2600. 2 were in the 2400 range . the rest were 1900-2100 range without the obvious advantage of lsd. i tried to "refresh" them. no difference though.

while the eneloops, duracels and sanyos are spot on.

 

[s002cjs]

My other Tenergys aren't the best, but definitely not the worst I've seen. Their capacity is fairly random, but from a set I bought a few years ago (AA & AAA combo), they're all still going with pretty good capacity.

I'll keep refreshing these new LSD ones a few more times and see if it makes a difference. Already, the third refresh seems to have bumped up the capacities above 800mAh each. After that, I'll pull them and check them weekly to see how well they hold the charge.