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[Closed] Recommend me a battery charger

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Bought a Lidl super duper special but so far I'm not impressed with the results. Having supposedly fully charged batteries I find they simply don't last.

A) What am I doing wrong - and yes the charger is plugged in and switched on!
B) Recommend me a decent charger

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Posted : 27/05/2009 9:10 pm
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I was going to say the Lidl one - the best of several I have got and works well for me


 
Posted : 27/05/2009 9:11 pm
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TJ

Do you leave it on until the lights go green or for a while longer? I understood that green = charged but the instruction state that AA batteries take 2 hours plus but mine 'go' green after 30mins or so.

Faulty charger?


 
Posted : 27/05/2009 9:17 pm
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either cr4p charger or could be cheapo branded cells


 
Posted : 27/05/2009 9:19 pm
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I like the GP 1hr charger, but the one I have does aa/aaa only.

£30ish


 
Posted : 27/05/2009 9:19 pm
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I went for quality branded cells with max mhas. I guess its the charger then 😥


 
Posted : 27/05/2009 9:24 pm
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Mine works fine. I tend to leave the batteries in and forget about them. Never noticed them not getting fully charged


 
Posted : 27/05/2009 9:26 pm
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I splashed out and got one of [url= http://www.batterylogic.co.uk/technoline/technoline-BL700.asp ]these[/url]. Works well. Battery Logic were very good too.


 
Posted : 27/05/2009 9:28 pm
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Cheers munkster and TJ appreciated


 
Posted : 27/05/2009 11:01 pm
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I splashed out and got one of these. Works well. Battery Logic were very good too.

That looks awesome!

Tankslapper, are the batteries new? NiMh? If yes, give them a good few charge cycles to allow them to reach their optimum performance.

My experience is that new NiMh batteries are pretty disappointing to start out with.


 
Posted : 28/05/2009 12:05 am
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I've got the one in munksters post too
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Works very well and tells you everything yo would ever want to know about your batteries.


 
Posted : 28/05/2009 7:07 am
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My only criticism of it is that if a cell has very little charge it'll assume there's nothing there and refuse to charge it - however a quick blast of a couple of minutes in a more crude device (that'll dumbly charge anything!) and it'll suddenly realise there's something to charge 🙂


 
Posted : 28/05/2009 7:14 am
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I haven't come across that problem yet munkster and I've been using one for about 18 months. Speak to battery logic, might be a problem with your charger.


 
Posted : 28/05/2009 7:17 am
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It's only happened twice in the 12-18 months I've had mine and only with a certain brand of cell (Vapextech since you ask) so I was assuming the problem lay with the cell TBH


 
Posted : 28/05/2009 7:19 am