any personal experience with these? The amazon rechargeables I bought SUCK with a capital SUCK!
I haven’t ever used Duracell’s rechargeable batteries. But I have used a few dozen varieties of Ni-MH. I’ll leave lithium-based batteries out of this for now, since we have typical chargers that my not have the “smarts” to deal with lithium… There are a few easy options for me to buy, depending on the sales that you can find:
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Panasonic Eneloop is king in the long run. Pricy, but great.
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EBL is what I use most for seasonal decor, photography accessories, or many remote controls at home. Value and performance are well balanced.
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Bonai has some great options that I use for C or D cell things, like some flashlights, or smaller, portable appliances.
These aren’t the only good ones, but I’ve found them to be (mostly) more reliable than some others. I had hopes for Amazon Basics, for instance, but I would not currently put them on this list.
These Duracells are coming in at a decent price, if you need a cheap charger too. But I don’t know exactly how well they’ll hold up over repeated charge cycles.
Hope that helps at least a little 
It does. I appreciate that. Yeah… I’ve familiar with the Eneloop. They are good.
You know what, though… I may be mistaken! (Yep… even happens to me 
)… I looked up EBL and THOSE are what I have that suck. Not the Amazon. I have those in AA, AAA, C and D. NONE of them will hold a charge on the shelf for longer than a month. Which makes them poor for remotes or just sitting to swap in while charging the other set.
I see they are what you use, though… 
Probably just another case of If I’M buying it…"
I’ll check out the Bonsai… Thanks!
something you might want to know about rechargeables: depending on the tech they use they output less voltage than regular batteries. nimh batteries output 1.2V where typical nonrechargeable batteries output 1.5V. might want to keep that in mind since some devices don’t like lower voltages.
if you want higher voltage rechargeable batteries you’ll want to look at lithium batteries, just make sure they are the rechargeable kind and be careful with them (lithium can be dangerous!)
If a charger can only handle batteries in pairs, it’s a dumb charger and is often the cause of premature death as it doesn’t know whether the battery is full or empty. It’ll just keep feeding it power, which could lead to overcharging.
I use Eneloops and they haven’t failed me.
Had energizer before and some of them work, but most ended up having issues after a short time.
Title says 6 AA, size says 4 AA.
Eneloops +1. I have some that are probably 10 years old. They hold a charge long enough to be on deck when their counterparts are drained.
I have some Sony branded batteries that are comparable to Eneloops
Energizers are ok. Not the best, but they do their job.
Amazon Basics are ok too. I have some in AAA size.
A good charger is worth the money. I have a MAHA charger that I have used for years. I used to photograph weddings and events. I used Ni-Mh batteries for all of my flashes. I usually needed to swap out batteries half way through the day.
“You can recharge 2 or 4 AA and AAA” Do your devices have an odd number of batteries? If so, a charger that does even number of batteries will be a pain.
Yes! So I bought this from BJ’s a couple years back, I use the rechargeable batteries in a few things around the house that would cost a fortune if I used traditional batteries. It charges the Duracells it came with and every capacity of AA & AAA I have thrown in from any brand. It’s on my desk at work today so I snapped a picture for you. The batteries can only be charged in pairs, so you see the left 2 have a red light indicating they are low and charging and the single one on the right has no light because it doesn’t have a second cell to complete the pair and charge. It will charge different mah capacity cells just fine, but it will not charge differs cell types in a pair ( read: cannot charge one AA & one AAA, must be a pair of the same type but capacity can be different). So the things that use 3 cells can be annoying to charge, but since i am cycling though constantly i eventually have 2 of the odd ones out to charge together… i still have the cells that came with this charger so they have been charged and discharged at least 100 times over that last 2 years and still function as well as when i got them.
It works great and it’s small enough that I bring it back and forth between work and home so I can steal watts from work instead of racking them up at home 
Probably looked right at it and didn’t see it… What are the capacities of these batteries?
Does anyone know if these are low self-discharge (LSD) batteries?
Here’s a somewhat goofy concern I have: Why would the Duracell folks create a rechargeable battery that look nearly identical to their regular alkaline batteries?
Wouldn’t be a big problem for me, if I lived alone. But the rest of the family, having used regular Duracells for all these years, are quite liable to just discard these, assuming they are not rechargeable.
Exactly why I’m hesitant to purchase myself. That little “rechargeable” will be ignored just like my pleads to look for it.
Morning all. These are being obtained from Amazon inventory so we don’t have a lot of information. Here it is on Amazon. There may be more information there.
I’ve had good luck with ELB Lithium. They’ve added significant brightness without damaging my solar landscape lights. The Duracell NiMh, I haven’t used since Wii replaced the GameCube. At the time, Li batteries didn’t exist. They worked fine, but had to be recharged frequently. I doubt they would power more modern controllers. Probably fine for dim landscape lighting.
Thanks for input re: batteries.
I re-charge all in pairs.
I was unaware of putting aa & aaa as mixed pairs not working.
Great insight!
I haven’t had to worry about this for years, since I got a nice (and expensive) LaCrosse charger, which fully measures each cells, individually, as it either charges, discharges, or tests. It was SO worth it, after time, but I do recall being very distraught by the price when I bought it 
Thanks!
Duracell NiMH batteries used to have a green stripe, then went green+copper and now black+copper with a really thin green line. The change is almost definitely intended to confuse the customer into throwing them away.