Rechargeable Batteries and chargers

[Mr Allen]

Does anyone have any modern day experience with them? I'm considering buying a charger and a couple of packs of rechargeable batteries from Argos to use in my camera for Comic Con this weekend, as all I've got in the drawer at Home are cheap Pound Land batteries that don't last very long.

A long time ago I had the old monochrome Nintendo Game Boy at College and had rechargeable batteries from Argos for that, and they worked but the charger and batteries eventually wore out and stopped working, is this still an issue?

 

[Judge]

If you can find AA or AAA batteries (assuming your camera uses them) in Lithium Ion, I say go for it.

The one my Canon SLR uses is proprietary, but it works like a champ and I've had both the battery and the charger since 2008. I get several hundred uncompressed images out of one charge that usually takes less than two hours to recharge.

Though I can't really say if an AA or AAA type battery would get significantly different results. I do know that not using an LCD panel so much reduces your power consumption as well. But then with my DSLR I can use the viewfinder for the most part without the LCD panel. How you use a camera can have great bearing on how much battery power you get in a single charge.

Do Rechargeable Lithium-Ion AA Batteries Exist? - MetaEfficient

 

[Southern Discomfort]

Yep, I've got a bag full of rechargeable batteries and a charger. I haven't had to use them yet; there's really only my mouse - which uses two and my xbox one controller which is still using the original batteries that I got with it.

All batteries have a shelf life. Rechargeable ones have a maximum number of recharges they can have before becoming dead. It's the same with a AAA batteries, smartphone battery, electric toothbrush battery. I don't know about the AA and AAA batteries but usually you can get about 500 recharges on general ones.

 

[Keigan]

The same problems exist in these modern days - the chargers give up quickly and the AA recharged batteries are always less of a charge than a brand new battery, so they are consumed by a camera rapidly.

 

[Mr Allen]

The same problems exist in these modern days - the chargers give up quickly and the AA recharged batteries are always less of a charge than a brand new battery, so they are consumed by a camera rapidly.

Might just nip out to the Co Op or Tesco and buy 2 packs of Duracell batteries then, might be cheaper and last longer.

 

[Jet Weiss]

I have a rechargeable battery for my DSLR camera, it came with a charging port that plugs into the wall. Not sure what sort of camera you have, but most camera shops will carry rechargeable batteries for most types of cameras.

 

[Alaska]

Might just nip out to the Co Op or Tesco and buy 2 packs of Duracell batteries then, might be cheaper and last longer.

They have battery extenders that you can precharge and take with you, in addition to the batteries that you can charge before you put them into your camera. That will close to double the time that your camera will last before you need another charge.

When I used to take a lot of photos, I got several sets of batteries to put into my camera, that way I could go for many hours before I used up all of my power.

The loss of time a rechargeable battery is not that great when you only use it one time. You can notice the shorter time the rechargeable battery lasts after you have been recharging it for a while, but when it got short enough to be annoying, I would just get more new recyclable batteries, precharge them and bring them along with the rest of the older batteries.

It costs a lot less to use recyclable batteries over time than to keep using regular batteries once and throwing them away. It is also a lot easier on the environment to keep recharging than to throw away one use batteries.

A specialized battery store near me says they have a new thing to recharge batteries, called a "battery conditioner". It has a little computer inside it that lets it fully drain the rechargeable batteries. This makes them last longer on a charge. I believe you can even recharge some regular batteries in a battery conditioner.

I plan to get a battery conditioner in the near future. They are not cheap, but sound worth it since the money it saves in battery longevity will pay for it over time. The battery conditioners do more stuff, but I do not understand it well enough to explain it well yet.

 

[Mr Allen]

I have a rechargeable battery for my DSLR camera, it came with a charging port that plugs into the wall. Not sure what sort of camera you have, but most camera shops will carry rechargeable batteries for most types of cameras.

It's just a cheap Digital camera I bought for Christmas 2 years ago, a Nikon 30 or something for £42 ($52.50)

 

[Butterfly88]

I bought rechargeable AAA batteries and they seem to last much less time than regular batteries. Needed to be charged so often I went back to regular batteries.

 

[Ephraim Becker]

You can actually buy rechargeables double and tripple a batteries that charge through its micro usb port from amazon here https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06VSJ5QHV/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

[Mr Allen]

You can actually buy rechargeables double and tripple a batteries that charge through its micro usb port from amazon here https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06VSJ5QHV/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I'm not American, are they on Amazon UK?

 

[the_tortoise]

I have rechargeable AAs, they are NiMH (nickel metal hydride). They last longer than the disposable AAs I used to buy and are supposed to last for at least 400 or 500 recharge-discharge cycles. They have already paid for themselves in the money I've saved on disposable batteries so even if they don't last that long I'm still happy I bought them.