Tag : minute battery, sony bcg, charger, 34hue4 15

Company : Sony List Price : $44.99 Amazon Price : $23.05 Used Price : Average customer review :

Features

• NiMH battery charger for charging up to 4 high-capacity 2500 mAh batteries
• Brings batteries back to full power in roughly 15 minutes
• Voltage- and temperature-monitoring functions
• Automatic charge cutoff conserves power
• Includes 4 rechargeable AA batteries

Product Description

Sony’s worldwide reputation for creating unique, attractive, high-quality, advanced technology products rests on a long line of innovations embraced by people from all walks of life. With a diverse product lineup serving a variety of lifestyles and industries, Sony continuously strives to introduce new products and technologies to meet changing market needs.

Customer reviews

Another Sony product bites the dust…
I must have a Sony curse or something… everything I buy from them breaks right after the warranty expires… 2 camcorders, 2 discmans, my PS2…

This worked great for a while, but then started rejecting batteries left and right. I had to re-insert them about 10 times to get the charge to begin. Ironically, it won’t charge the included Sony batteries at all, but still kind of works with my energizers…

Battery’s recharging life too short
Pros: Fast recharge

Cons: Batteries’ life is seriously reduce.

I think I only recharges these batteries for about 100 times and now they can’t no longer be recharged by the charger. I think this is because the charger recharges the batteries too fast. I have to recharge the batteries with my other Ni-MH chargers because the Sony chargers refuses to charge it for me. Get the 1 hour sony charger instead of this 15 minutes one.

Note batteries gets extremely hot after recharges

Great, speedy battery charger.
I have been using this battery charger for approximatley one year, and I couldn’t be more pleased with it. While on vacation this past month, I wore out all my camera batteries. I plugged in my battery charger (which I fortunately had the foresight to bring with me) and in a half hour, I had four fresh batteries in my camera and a set of four spare batteries in my case. The batteries are long lasting, and the charger works quickly as advertised.

Nice Little Charger!
Literature claims this unit can charge any combination of AA and AAA batteries - nice! This means if you have a battery with a bad cell (indicated by a blinking light), you can just try one at a time until you find the bad one. It also means you can charge anywhere from 1 - 4 batteries at a time. And with a 15-25 minute charge time, you can’t beat it. Glad I chose this one over the other brands!

Could be better. Pick something else.
I purchased this battery charger combo less than a year ago with less than 200 charge cycles and while it worked ok (not great), it’s performance has steadily gotten worse over time.

The batteries only hold a charge for 2-3 days at best and from what I can tell, they are never fully charged (as checked with a multimeter).

I’ve tried other brand batteries (Rayovac, Duracell, etc…) and the charger refuses to charge them. The status light just blinks. I should have spent a bit more for a better charger.

I’m going to sell this unit to someone else and get the charger that I should have gotten in the first place.