Energizer Compact AA/AAA Battery Charger

by Energizer

Product Features

• Eveready Battery #CHDCWOB AA AAA Battery Charger
• EVEREADY BATTERY CO

Product Description

Energizer Compact Charger CHDCWOB Camera Battery Chargers

Product Details

Product Manual [117kb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 9 x 4 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000UUR6C
• UPC: 039800001313 039800001429 039800065933 039800001207 039800001535
• California residents: Click here for Proposition 65 warning.
• Item model number: CHDCWOB
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #43,279 in Health & Personal Care (See Top 100 in Health & Personal Care)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

33 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Why this battery charger is so cheap, February 12, 2006

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M. R. Reynolds (Tulsa, OK United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Energizer Compact AA/AAA Battery Charger (Health and Beauty)

Sold at Sams with 8 AA and 4 AAA batterys. The clue about how this charger works is in the instruction sheet: "Note: If the unit is unplugged or power is interruped during the charging cycle, the time will start over and run the full charge cycle." and "The charger is designed to charge AA NiMH batteries (maximum capacity of 2500 mAh) and AAA NiMH batteries (maximum capacity of 850 mAh) For lower rated capacity batteries simply remove the batteries before the charge cycle is complete based on the following charge time." (table of approriate charge times is listed)

In other words this charger doesn't sense overcharge because it only has a timer. After 8.5 hours the charger turns off. Period, end of details. Why do you think this Energizer battery charger is so cheap? Now you know.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Ridiculously useless if you don't change batteries every day, August 10, 2006

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Chris D (North Carolina) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Energizer Compact AA/AAA Battery Charger (Health and Beauty)

I just pulled four batteries out of the charger and put them in my camera, and the camera reported that they were dead. The batteries are brand-new Energizer 2500mAh and the charger is brand-new. The batteries and charger have worked for about a month or so, no problems.

Then why aren't the batteries charged? The huge gaping problem is, as far as I can tell, NOT that the batteries have suddenly gone bad, but that the charger charges batteries, then stops charging them after a certain time to prevent overcharging, then--THAT'S IT. From then on the charger does NOTHING, unless you unplug it and plug it back in. So in other words, once the charger has fully charged the batteries, then the charger in effect very helpfully DRAINS them until they're dead. If you switch out your batteries every day, then this is not a problem, but if you don't need them for a few days or weeks at a time like me, then you're going to have to deal with the baffling paradox of how it is possible to get dead batteries from a live, plugged-in battery charger.

How is this useful? When you get your batteries out of a charger, you expect them to be fully charged, am I wrong? The charger apparently doesn't have something called a 'trickle charger', which keeps the batteries at full capacity. I haven't bought a battery charger in ten years, are you telling me that after all this time, this is still not a standard feature??? That's what I get for expecting technology to improve.

Correct me if I'm wrong, people. Am I using it wrong? You put batteries in the right way, plug it in, leave it alone, and later you come back and get your freshly charged batteries, right, that is the correct way to operate this complex equipment, right? There's not more to it than that? Okay, just checking.

My recommendation: Buy Energizer or Duracell rechargeable batteries with the highest mAh rating you can find, because the batteries themselves are good, then FLING AWAY the included charger, and then buy ANOTHER NiMH charger from another company--one that doesn't even offer a charger without a built-in trickle charging feature.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars No picture of product can be a problem..., February 13, 2004

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Tyson Torres (Arizona USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Energizer Compact AA/AAA Battery Charger (Health and Beauty)

A word to the wise: be careful of choosing from among many similar products without a definitive photograph to help you make sure you know what you're getting. I relied on the "product manual" in PDF format linked on the page, only to discover that the image therein (and likely the rest of the information it contained) didn't match what was being sold on this page! I received a completely different charger that had the capacity to charge only one 9-volt battery at a time, rather than the two I had seen in the manual. While I'm sure this is a decent charger (at half the cost compared to even the warehouse clubs), it isn't what I need. Bottom line: be careful when ordering without photographs!