[Greenbuilding] Battery charger--works on standard Alkaline

[Reuben Deumling]

Point taken. But I am going to guess based on the tenor of the discussion
that they are a few steps ahead of the rest of us (or the folks who have
had the Amazon device for a day or a week) in terms of experience with
trying to charge alkalines. And nothing in the Amazon reviews suggests that
leaking is less of a problem than the folks on candlepowerforums are
asserting.
I can think of at least four types of info that would be helpful here:
specific experience with this device
-detailed/rigorous (a)
-general/terse (b)

specific experience using similar devices to charge alkaline AA or AAA
batteries
-detailed/rigorous (c)
-general/terse (d)

Amazon's reviews were in my view mostly in the (b) category; while the
candlepowerforums banter was mostly in the (c) category. The only reason
I'd discount the latter was if for some reason this particular charger
available on Amazon for ~$10 were somehow technically different from prior
chargers that made similar claims. But based on the Amazon reviewer's
comment about the incidence of leaking I'm inclined to think that in fact
this one suffers from much of the same problems that earlier chargers did.
Besides, if you were offering a charger such as this and the history of
these was that (a) a fair fraction of the batteries leaked, and (b) initial
voltage was an important parameter, wouldn't you want to address these
issues in your product literature or in the design of the device? The
absence of any way to test battery voltage on this device is to me not
reassuring.

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Benjamin Pratt
<benjamin.g.pratt at gmail.com>wrote:

> Those candlepower reviews aren't really reviews--just guesses. No one
> there has used this specific device.
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> > Here are some reviews from candlepowerforums: http://tinyurl.com/7n8gzvh
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