ReSource 40 Battery Rack with Tester

by ReSource

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 12 x 2 x 7 inches ; 1.3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• ASIN: B000O8UB0W
• Item model number: rack 40
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,705 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 7, 2004

Product Description

Easy storage and accessibility for all sizes of batteries. 12" x 7 1/8" x 2", gray polystyrene. Organizes, stores and tests batteries. Holds 40 batteries total: 4- 9 volt, 10 AAA, 10 AA, 8 C, and 8 D . 1 inch interchangeable design

Customer Reviews

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62 of 62 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works great!, October 7, 2004

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C. Bono (Edmond, OK) - See all my reviews
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So, I wonder to myself what took me so long to finally pick up a battery organizer. The lack of a centralized place to store all of the various batteries we had scattered about annoyed me one too many times... so I tried this one out.

The built-in tester on this unit is very nice. We were able to immediately eliminate several expired batteries from our collection. Handy! Plus, it gives you some indication of whether a battery is fully-charged or slightly-used.

This sucker also holds a lot of batteries. Unless you buy yours in bulk, you'll be hard-pressed to fill the rack up.

The only con I see is that if you need to change the batteries that run the tester (yes, the battery tester requires small watch batteries to function properly -- they're included, though), the hatch is on the back of the unit. If you mount the unit to the wall, you'll need to take it down to change the batteries. Not a big deal, except the way the mounting holes are designed, you'll need to remove the screws first to take the unit off the wall.

The unit can also fit inside a pull drawer. Nice if you don't have the wall space.

Overall, I'm very happy with this purchase.

34 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty darn good, but not perfect., May 17, 2006

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Earl E. A. Dopter (Louisiana) - See all my reviews
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I have been using this rack for about a month now and can say that it does what it says it will do. Had I been designing it, I would have made the following changes:

1. When you hang the unit, the bottom battery can fall out if the wall is banged hard enough, especially if the rack is not full. I would have made a small lip to prevent this possibility.

2. I have noticed that it is possible to have a battery test well (green light on the tester) but not perform very well when used in certain devices. I would like to see a tester that was more accurate, like with a real voltage digital readout so that you would know for sure.

3. I would like to see the partitions be moveable so that if I wanted to store more of one type of battery and fewer of another type, I would be able to do so.

Other than these points, I think it works pretty darn well.

Update: 10/9/06: I have found another couple of negatives for the rack, and have now downgraded it to three stars. Unfortunately, some batteries that test out fine on the tester actually are not much good. I thought originally that maybe we were only talking about heavy usage, but now I see that even more moderate uses are precluded at times even when the battery tests full green. Also, I have the rack mounted to the inside of a double door, but the side that it's mounted to is never used. Even so, just the minor vibration caused by closing the opposing door sometimes knocks a battery out. The slope should be more drastic within the rack so that this could not happen.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars battery rack, October 26, 2007

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Arthur J. Bull (Cleveland, OH) - See all my reviews
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Great product. Keeps batteries handy and the oldest get used before the newer batteries on top.