Product Description

Duracell AA/AAA 15-Minute Charger Kit Rechargeable batteries are ideal for powering digital cameras and electronic devices such as PDAs and hand-held games.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #44517 in Consumer Electronics
• Color: black
• Brand: Duracell
• Model: CEF15NC
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.62" h x 3.33" w x 4.03" l, 7.00 pounds

Features

• Charges up to four AA or AAA NiMH batteries in up to 15 minutes
• Includes four 2400mAh AA NiMH batteries

Customer Reviews

Good
The Duracell 15 Minute Battery Charger has 4 channels (or battery slots) for charging 4 AA / AAA batteries.

Charge Time
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- The battery charger works as advertised; it fully charges NiMH rechargeable batteries in about 15 minutes. Charge times can be longer for batteries that are higher in capacity than the ones that come with the charger (2500 mAH). For example, it sometimes takes up to 20 minutes to charge my 2650 mAH AA Duracell batteries.


LED Light
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- The LED light can indicate one of three charge status:

1) Off ......... Charge is complete for all channels
2) On ......... Charging is in progress on at least one channel
3) Blinking ... 1 or more batteries are bad

Unlike some battery chargers (such as the Energizer 15 Minute Charger), it doesn' have 4 independent LED lights to indicate charge status for each of the channels. There's, therefore, no way to know WHICH channel has completed its charge and WHICH channel has a bad battery.


Bad Battery Woes
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If the Charger detects a bad/damaged battery (indicated by its blinking LED light), it will refuse to charge the battery.

This charger used to frequently reject batteries that I had used only a few times (money down the drain). I had to keep buying new batteries -- and that was very annoying!

At first, I thought maybe this charger was actually ruining my batteries! But I managed to finally catch on to what was happening: my camera was the culprit!

The reason: on many camera's and other high-drain devices, batteries can be over-discharged and can go through a phenomenon known as "polarity reversal." Many devices have a built-in mechanism to detect when batteries reach a "cut-off" voltage (or more properly termed, the end-of-discharge voltage), and shuts down automatically before damage can occur. Many devices, however, do not have such a mechanism.

Now, I'm careful to not over-discharge my rechargeable batteries - I have never had a bad battery in a long time.


Conclusion
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The Duracell 15 Minute Battery Charger works flawlessly. My only complaint is that it doesn't have 4 independent LED lights to indicate charge status for each of the channels.

Excellent Battery Charger Complete w/Batteries - Highly Recommended!
This Duracell 15 Minute Charger works exactly as advertised when using the four included Duracell 2400MAH AA rechargeable batteries. The charger also can used to recharge AAA batteries as well.

This is a fairly large unit with a good sized power supply that connects to the charging base. This isn't obvious from the packaging picture and I was expecting something along the lines of an all-in-one type where the whole unite plugs directly into an outlet. This isn't an issue for me, but its size does prohibit just tossing it in a camera case with your other gear.

The LED on the charging base is very simplistic, on (red) when charging, off when completely charged, and blinking when there is a bad battery or high temperature (haven't experienced that yet).

The included batteries are very good and performed as I expected, lasting for several hundred shots in my power hungry dSLR taking a good mix of flash and non-flash pictures.

Overall, I am very pleased with this set - Highly Recommended!

Excellent Battery Charger
This Duracell 15 minute battery charger is simply outstanding. It makes getting ready for a spontaneous day with your digital camera much, much simpler. This product is easy to use, and delivers fully charged batteries in just minutes, as promised. The batteries not only charge quickly, they also hold their charge very well, which is just as crucial.

The batteries load at very slight angle, which is slightly different than many other chargers. Other than than, this unit scarcely needs directions. The Duracell 15 minute charger is solidly built, straightforward to operate and a good value.

I strongly recommend this product.