Energizer Rechargeable 15 Minute Charger , 1 charger

I've had this charger for a few months. It works great for charging my AA and AAA batteries. It charges in about 20 minutes.

My only complaint is how loud it is. There's a tiny 50mm fan inside that sounds like a hair dryer. Granted, you'll only hear it for the 20 minutes you are charging, but if you live in a small place you can't really get away from the noise. I feel like they could have designed it with a larger fan that would move more air and make less noise, but they chose to make it more compact and louder.

Nevertheless, it basically works as advertised and besides the noise I have no complaints at all.

I have to say I bought this item from Kmart for $34.00. Why I bought this item from Kmart was because it came with a car adapter for a cigarette light output. The item above does not appear to include the DC adapter.

I'm not going to go over all the +'s like single channel, tickle charging, fan and speed in charging.

1 Like most males I'm shade color blind. I hate when they use the tiny red / green lights which presents a problem when telling if the batteries are finished. The light is bright enough to tell the difference with this unit. However, the other way to tell if the batteries are done is that the fan stops running when finished.

2 If you read the instructions, if the red light is blinking simplly means their a problem (contacts, bad batteries etc.). Sometimes its only a matter of unpluging the unit and pluging it back in to resolve the problem. Even those the unit is single channel, mismatched batteries (2000mah vs 2650 mah) could cause a problem (most times not). Blinking light with 4 batteries, try just 2 or different conbinations. Then again the batteries could be bad. A pair of 4 year old batteries did not work, still got my money worth out of them. The blinking light doesn't always happen, but its important to understand why it happens then just throwing out the batteries which might not be bad.

3 The fan is a bit loud which annoys my wife but doesn't annoy me. So, this is a individual thing. For any unit the fan is very important which keeps the batteries cool and stop them from going bad during fast charging and is a must!

In summary, I think its a great charger and I can live with the little things. If it went in 6 months, I'd still buy another.

That's my two cents

This charger is awsome, although it is sensitive of detecting bad cells (in my case the rayovac ic3 batteries were actually bad). Even my slow smart charger won't charge these batteries properly. Like it would charge for an hour and give me a blinking red flash. Now for those that are having issues with this charger I can explain why and here what I discovered that might make things much easier.

1.This charger is very sensitive to changes in resistance. If the resistance is too high you get a red blinking LED flash. So make sure the contacts on the charger, and batteries are clean before putting them in the charger.

2.There is a trick to actually get bad cells to charge in this charger. To get them to charge you have to power cycle the charger repeatedly until it charges the cell while the batteries are in the charger by simply unplugging and plugging until the red flashing stops. Now if the cell does not charge, then the cell actually is bad and needs to be replaced.

3.when fully charged or the light turns green. Leave it for another 15-30 minutes so the cells can cool while being topped off even after the fan has shut off. This is for maximum performance out of your cells.

And lastly any nimh battery charges in 15 minutes. It seems to like the precharged duracell a lot. So far no problems with the charger once you figured it out how it works. This has to be the most advanced charger ever.

Hope this help.

If you need a reliable charger, this is NOT the one to get. NIMH batteries that are charged fine with other chargers get a red "reject" blinking light from this one, which means you can't charge them.

The quick charge idea is nice, except it's rather hard on battery life, so you're really better off getting a good one or two hour charger. The heat generated by 15-minute charging is not the best thing for NIMH batteries. I have many sets of NIMH batteries of different brands and capacities, and this charger manages to reject most of them at one time or the other. If you don't have another charger available, you're out of luck. The "reject" batteries seem to work fine in every way but in this miserable charger.

When it works, (like it will with a new set of batteries for a while) it's fine, and it includes all the niceties like a car adapter; but after it's rejected its third or fourth set of your known-good batteries, you'll get the idea that this thing is worthless. I keep hanging on to it as a backup, but it's not reliable enough for that, so I think the sledge hammer is soon going to give me some revenge for all the frustration this thing has given. 8^)

I bought this about a year ago when I got a Nintendo Wii, but I've been using it to charge batteries for just about anything: digital cameras, electric toothbrushes, etc. It does charge batteries in 15 minutes, and I've even used it to charge NIMH batteries from other brands, and it works just fine.

I suppose it can be a little picky in which batteries it decides to charge, but I haven't found it to be a major problem. Mine is only picky once in a great while. The batteries do get pretty hot while charging, but when they're done, I just take them out and let them cool down. I figured that was expected... I've never had any weird interference with any electronics while I was using the charger, and when the batteries are charged, they've lasted a long time, whether it's for a digital camera or a Wii remote. I also like how it also charges AAA batteries, and you can choose to charge 1, 2, 3, or 4 batteries.

A battery charger is a great investment; I've saved so much money on batteries, and this one does the job for me!