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Summary: Warning! High discharge rate
Comment: After replacing my old Sony rechargeable batteries after 3 years of solid use, I wanted to go in another direction and bought these from a supposed battery-specialized company. At first I thought the reason why, after charging the batteries a couple days before, the first pair was at mid charge while the spare batteries could not even turn my camera on, was due to using a Sony charger. After that I bought an Energizer charger with another four batteries.
Guess what? the same thing. The only way you can use these is if you charge them right before use (8 hours!) and practically makes no sense carrying a spare pair as they will not work when you need them.
I really recommend avoiding these and going with Sanyo Eneloops, just as I did.
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Summary: Rapid discharge after full charge just sitting on shelf
Comment: After a full charge and just storing them on the shelf, not installed, the batteries fully discharge after two weeks. I do not have this problem with Sony or Sanyo batteries. The Energizer batteries are the made in Japan versions. Save your cash and buy a different brand.
Customer Rating:
Summary: DON"T WASTE YOUR MONEY!
Comment: I have 4 kids and we were using batteries like crazy. I don't necessarily like throwing all of those batteries away when there are rechargables. I went to the store without doing any research first and just picked up these Energizers 2500mAhs. Needless to say, most don't work after a year. I couldn't get my programmable thermastat to even work because it had such a low charge coming straight off of the charger. And today, my sons batteries died in his guitar, took the ones that had just gotten done in the charger and they didn't even last five minutes, and boy he wasn't very happy. I think I would have been better off getting those junky ones from the dollar store. Look for a better brand!
Customer Rating:
Summary: good batteries
Comment: The batteries are good and they work in my charger (different brand) They do not last as long as the other brand but they do the job.
Customer Rating:
Summary: another victim . . .
Comment: Avoid these batteries!!!!!! My experience is similar to many others. Good initial performance, and then these bloody Energizer batteries can't hold a charge. Unfortunately before I discovered how crappy they really are, I bought a bunch of them, for use in my digital cameras and camera flash units. When these babies fail, performance falls like a lead balloon. They might have enough power to operate a remote control unit, but you can forget about powering anything with a major power draw.
Unfortunately Energizer is extremely successful at getting stores to stock this junk. I get real annoyed whenever I see them on display, because it reminds me of all the money I wasted. They seem to be available everywhere, a constant reminder of a disaster. How does a product that is so bad, get such great distribution and remain available for sale? Energizer probably gets off easy, because it takes a while for their batteries to go bad. By then, it's less likely that people will complain or return them. Blasting them here is like therapy for me.
As an alternative, I strongly recommend Ray-O-Vac Hybrid cells, which have worked very well for me so far.
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