Tim Hughes wrote:
> Garth,
> I could not find Eneloops listed on costco website. What price did you
> find there?
>
There seems to be little relationship between what Costco sells in their
stores and what's on the web site.
At my local store, I bought for $25.99 a cute little carrying/storage
case containing:
8 x AA
4X AAA
1 x four bay charger
2 x AA => C adapters
2 x AA => D adapters
> I have not bought them for sometime and the last time I was paying about
> ~$3/cell or $4/cell, for
> 4 cells with a travel charger thrown in. compared: Regular NiMh go for about
> $1/cell @ 2.2Ah cells
> in quantity 20.
>
If, as I did, you want the charger, that's a very good deal, I think.
Even if you value charger and adapters at only $2 total, the batteries
are $2 each.
If the charger is worth $5 and the adapters $1 a pair, the batteries are
$1.60 apiece.
Less appealing if you have no use for the AAAs. So far, they work very
well in one of my flashlights with umpteen LEDs. This is another use
where conventional NIMH are useless, as it involves standing unused for
long periods.
Capacity issues are opaque to me. Energizer list their standard
alkalines at 2850 mAh, while the eneloops are 2000 mAh. Yet the eneloop
package claims about 5 times the shot capacity in a digicam. With a
Sanyo DSC-S4 camera, temp. 77F, flash every third shot and one shot
every 20 seconds, they claim 117 shots with alkaline and 514 with eneloops.
And none of that says anything about use in a flashlight, radio, remote
control, etc. They tout them for all these and other uses, but provide
no relative life info.
In any case the eneloops are worth much more to me than any standard
NiMH because of the nature of my general use.
Moose
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