Hi today I will be reviewing Energizer AA 2500 mAh Rechargeable Batteries.
Price
You can buy these from Amazon for cheapest £7.05 I got them for £10 from B&Q and I got a charger as well.
Life
I recommend fully charging these for first time use. I put them on for a day. From the full charge I managed to get a week use out of them. I use them in my Xbox 360 Controllers which are used by me and my brothers so they were on for most of the week.
Charge
While using the official charger for this product it takes around 6 hours to charge fully (Overnight).
Size
I find that these batteries are a little larger than the usual AA batteries because in my Xbox controller when I first got them in they took quite a lot of force to get them out again. After using them for quite a lot it seems to have stretched the battery pack so it ...
Advantages: very cheap, maybe saving you a few hundred pounds ! Disadvantages: None
I was rummaging through a car-boot sale and found an old computer. I bought it and took it home, turned it on. It could not identify the hard disk, memory, time and date.
I bought one of these batteries for 49p, and gave the old machine a new lease of life. It is now powering a Linux firewall in my house. Being a Lithium Manganese Dioxide cell, it is guaranteed 15 years life... wow, for 49p.
Sometimes people would turn their computers on, and the time and date is wrong, or the machine will not boot up. These people immediately think there is a virus in the machine, and once it is scanned and nothing has been found, they think the machine has died.
Well, the first thing they should do, is visit the BIOS, set everything to automatic and reboot. if the machine starts up ok, then the user needs to invest 49p in one of these ...
Advantages: Light, compact, doesn't leak, value for money, handy Disadvantages: Easily switched on & drained
chargers for those items would be impractical & take up all my luggage space. Instead I carry one simple power monkey.
A power monkey is a small oval shaped device that holds about one hours charge up to one year & that charge can be transferred to most small devices when you need it. Officially it is an external charger of 2200mAh.
The RRP is £34.99, I paid £17.99 from Amazon but the most expensive I saw was at Belfast airport at £39.99!
It is about 9cm long & around 3.5cm at it's widest point, it weighs just 100g. At one end is a small wire with a simple connection at the end of it, the other end has a socket to allow the device to be charged from a wall socket. There are two warning lamps, one in red & one in green & a simple on/off switch.
When you first purchase it you need to charge it up, a power monkey is no use to you if it ...
