If you ask me, this charger is not a good investment. If I am not wrong, this is GP Power Bank Mega which is a mid-range charger in GP's series.
just hoot another set at IT fair. :thumbsup:
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just hoot another set at IT fair. :thumbsup:
If you ask me, this charger is not a good investment. If I am not wrong, this is GP Power Bank Mega which is a mid-range charger in GP's series.
It charges 4 or 8 batteries and will take 6 hours to complete the charge cycle depending on the capacity of the batteries.
The best kind of battery charger is the one which can charge battery individually. i.e. you can just charge one battery at any slots. In your case, you have to charge 4 batteries at a time (or the slightly better ones will have to charge 2 batteries at the same time).
The reason why it is not as good as those can charge one at a time is because each battery although they might have the same ratings marked on the batteries, in real life, their actual capacity will vary. For those that charge 4 in one go, as soon as the lowest capacity battery is fully charged, the charger will stop charging so if you have a bad one which has a much lower capacity, it will affect all the others in the same group. Same applies to the one that needs to charge 2 at the same time.
Just to share my experience with the characteristics of the different chargers.
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Show-off purchases WIN
No need to say like this...:sweat:Thread title FAIL
Show-off purchases WIN
No need to say like this...:sweat:
I think TS just want to tell people they don't have to use the same brand of batteries and battery charger which was frequently asked in the forum.
TS has contributed to the forum frequently and if I am not wrong he has posted the first brochure of SanDisk price from PC SHOW 09 even before the start of the show and received quite a few thank you posts. :thumbsup:
pls check who is the TS by following the thread carefully...doesn't really prove anything.. it's like posting a pic of me eating rat poison and saying "this should answer some qns about the safety of rat poison" but later on i end up in hospital.. ;p
anyway, the question on whether brand A batts can be charged in brand B charger has been answered to death, and your photo hardly adds any value. "a picture speaks a thousand words".. not so in this case!
pls check who is the TS by following the thread carefully...
Don't anyhow put words into people's mouth. :nono:
in that case, sanyo and yuasa must be very familiar names...planning to add ansmann maxe, panasonic infinium, maha imedion, rayovac hybrio and so on in future.From the pics, the GP PBank charger is dusty, so presumed purchased as 2nd hand from the event.
I have been observing for a while and I find it intriguing that there is so much interest on AA/AAA rechargeable battery. These are commonly found in supermarket and hypermart. :think: Are you aware that there is rechargeable CR123A which you can use to power the SD9 or flash?
But I have in the past collected many brands of batteries. :bsmilie:
The ReCyko 4x black charger is suprisingly running very hot all the time, so IMO cuts the lifespan.
in that case, sanyo and yuasa must be very familiar names...planning to add ansmann maxe, panasonic infinium, maha imedion, rayovac hybrio and so on in future.
the most common or should i say easier to find CR123A would be from Energizer.
The charger is interim while i ponder whether to choose ansmann, maha or lacrosse charger. the current GP charger at the most gets lukewarm, much better then my previous sony charger.
Here is the premium range of GP chargers.Heh. I'd say this pic raises more questions than answers them.
My experience with GP RecycKo+ is that they are a tiny bit fatter than normal AAs, which means on some equipment, it'll be a tight squeeze in the battery compartment.
I prefer PowerEx Imedions. But honestly, performance wise, I can't tell the difference.
But thanks to those who pointed out the deficiency of GP chargers. What about their higher end ones? Do they charge cells individually?