AA Nimh rechargers

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Hi all,
Can someone help me.
I have 10 AA Energizer and 8 Sanyo AA 2500 mah NiMh batteries all of them are "normal" ones as far as I can see. Does not say Quick Charge and it does not say DO NOT quick charge.

Can I buy a quick 2 hour charger and use it? Or is this BAD.

or should I buy a 10 AA charger on ebay for $64 inc shipping?

Currently I have one "4 x AA" charger and it is ridiculous to charge them as 4 a day means over a week to charge them all. PS -> My coolpix with battery pack takes 6 AA, my SBD80X takes 4 AA,
And I am thinking about buying another flash Sb800 this recharging saga is likely to get worse.

I like to have at least one set of fully charged batteries with me spare.

[Luke Smith]

To quote my own reply to a topic here - http://www.d70users.com/viewtopic.php?t=154&start=15

The optional 5th cell with the SB800 is an anomaly. I have a charger (Maha C204F) that charges batteries in pairs. I don't know of a charger that charges independently 5 cells. From an electronics point of view, it's highly desireable for the 5 cells in the flash (if using 5 cells), to be discharged/recharged at the same time. Also, I know of no place that sells AA batteries singularly!

Onyx

I have a 6 battery quick charger that I bought a couple of years ago from Jaycar electronics. It has a switch that allows you to select to charge either 4,5 or 6 batteries at once. There is also a button for discharging the batteries

They also sell batteries individually.

Louie

http://www1.jaycar.com.au/productView.a ... BCATID=295

Is a 10 battery charger from Jaycar that I bought to complement my SB800. It charges and discharges the batteries individually and I also got 10 x 2500mAh batteries from Jaycar. They take about 20 hours to charge but one set of 5 lasted over 500 shots at a wedding I did the other weekend. I didn't bother running them flat so they might go for 700... I just used the charger to discharge them and charge them again.

The recharge performance compared to 4 x alkaline is brilliant, taking about 2.5 seconds to recharge after a 1/1M flash.

I use a LowePro D-Res 6 case to carry the spare set of 5 batteries, cleaning cloth, flash gels, ML-L3 remote and spare CF card.

The charger cost $50 and the batteries about $4.50ea on special.

Cheers,

Luke

So it’s not fast... but it does 10 at a time, treating each battery as an individual, which is good for things that use odd numbers of batteries like the SB800. You put them in, hit the discharge button and the light next to each battery will go solid red until the cell is discharged and then start flashing as it charges and finally go green when it’s done and the charger just keeps the cell topped up.

Cheers,

Luke