Saw this at both reject shops in Penrith, NSW.
Bought 6 packs cause of toys, awesome store deal in my own opinion.
Unsure if it is nationwide.
Phillips 12pk AA OR AAA Alkaline Batteries $1.50 @ Reject Shop
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Or they indicate an Ozbargainer waiting for the right hand soap special.
Good price. I saw these at $2 recently.
If they're on clearance are they short-dated expiry? If not they'd be great to stick in the drawer for later use.
alkaline do discharge with time so them being short dated AND you plan to stick them in the drawer will end up not much use later on.
Agreed, that's why I said if they're not short-dated then they're good for storing. If they are short-dated then use 'em up straight away.
just recharge them
@jlogic: whats the note 7 got to do with recharging a Alkaline im not short circuiting the Alkaline Batteries to charge them
@Ken Worth: You weren't very specific. Recharging Alkalines have higher risk especially if you don't control current and voltage.
@jlogic: so when i said recharge them you instantly thought to short circuit the battery like what a note 7 design fault created …strange way of thinking ..most people say oh how will i do that i will google it and see that i have to watch temp ie charge for an hour then leave for 3 hours and only charge them if they still have some life in them because if there dead flat good chance im wasting my time….
20 years ago i would have shown someone how to do it but these days its a givin that people google information.
thanks
Ken Worthington
Electrical Engineer@Ken Worth: You have too much faith in humanity… there are reasons why sites like LMGTFY exist.
I am thinking LCD when I read that comment of yours Mr. Electrical Engineer. Not everyone has the smarts to do that.
You should know being an engineer you design things to cater for the dumbasses in the world so they don't kill themselves.
@jlogic: its really not hard to google anything relating to the topic and follow basic instruction…..I am thinking teenage response (Meet my new friend the Note 7)
then im thinking you are trying to School me in your,e next comment.
ahhhh the you should know sentence……No we dont design things to cater to dumbasses ,electronics are designed to work period ,nothing stopping you from jamming a screwdriver into a psu though, not my job to make sure you dont.anyway not sure how someone is going to get killed unless they eat the batteries …
although i made my own charger years ago maybe you should just use one of these …https://www.jaycar.com.au/alkaline-ni-cd-ni-mh-battery-charger/p/MB3568@Ken Worth: You are reading too much into things…
No one is trying to school you in anything. You will be surprised how many don't search for things themselves. Look at how many people buy the cheap USB chargers and then complain it exploded or burnt them etc. a quick Google search before going to buy will point out many websites that have tested these types of chargers.
Hobby chargers are great with the additional flexibility in controlling voltages and current etc. But impractical unless you have RC toys to charge :)
I have plenty of AA/AAA chargers and wouldn't recommend the one you linked due to it using a timer to cut off the charge.
EDIT OHHHH didn't see it at first… it charges Alkaline as well. Nice one.
People have been recharging alkaline batteries for years.
Although it would be much fairer to say that it's possible to you "top them up".
The classic was the "Rezap" - if you Google you will be amazed what you'll find.
Alkaline re-charging was all the go when there were no NiMH batteries in the retail market and everyone was struggling with the quirks and limitations of NiCD.
To get decent performance and life out of NiCD you have to discharge fully then charge fully. If not, a "memory effect" was created that meant that the overall battery capacity became reduced to whatever you had been recently drawing from them. So, a nice 1200mAh NiCD battery which had only 400mAh used before being recharged would end up only having a total capacity of 400mAh after a short while!
NiCD is good for high current applications, you can put heavy loads on them, but they self-discharge really quickly. So NiCD was great for RC models, power tools, etc where you would use it until dead flat, then fully recharge. But NiCD was hopeless for things where you needed to use them occasionally, or for light loads or where you might want to do a top-up charge ready for the next time it was used - this kind of usage killed NiCD batteries very quickly.
So, Alkalines were the perfect compliment to NiCD. They had low self-discharge, and you could top the charge up providing it was only a light discharge each time. The complete opposite of NiCD, Alkalines thrive on being topped up after minmimal usage. For example, if you topped them up every month or so, you could almost keep the Alkalines in your remote controls and clocks running forever!
Geeze. You kiddies with your fancy smancy Lithiums and Eneloops have no idea how hard it was in the olde days LOL.
@llama: cheers for that. I do remember NiCD from my youth. Every rc toy at the time seemed to use them and I remember my dad having them in charge for ages and then quickly dying.
Good old days… Did I mention 9 of us lived in a rolled up newspaper atop a rubbish dump?
@imurgod: You were lucky, we lived under a rubbish dump and sucked gravel for dinner, … if we could find any.
The packs i got have oct 2019 expiry
Good value. I've had the before from Harvey Norman.
I have bought the same batts from HN and they were crap. Ended up getting a refund.
Have had most of these batteries leak before expiry in the past, so not a great fan. If using in the short term should be okay, but not for long life usage, or to leave for later.
Mine expired and leaked
Can confirm, I noticed leaking packs of these still for sale on clearance at the front of our local good guys store recently which were absolutely disgusting.
Can anyone confirm if these are in WA?
The boys toys are always using up our batteries. Usually get the Ikea AA/AAA ones for $3 to $4.
Thanks
Get rechargeables? Ikea have cheap rechargeables and a power bank that charges many batteries at once.
Only use disposable if I am in a pinch. It has saved me a heap of money so far because of all the damn toys and night lights that are running all over the house.
+1 this' even if it's a dumb charger (as it's cheap). Surely better financially & ( I gotta say it & not as an eco-nut) better environmentally. The caveat is that the "cheap" batteries must hold their charge cos they must be on hand for kid's gear.
Also I do recall an old post where the writer was saying rechargeables were not an alternative as kids(?) habitually threw the flat batteries away.
Eneloops or similar is of course the way to go but the "kit up" costs are steep for the needed swag of batteries if the budget is tight.
Yep, probably worth getting a charger and batteries in the long term. Would have brought 10 to 15 packs of 10 over the years.
Choice of batteries:
http://www.ikea.com/aa/en/catalog/products/70303876/ - Ladda 2450mah - AA - $10.95 - No stock till the 2nd of February.
http://www.ikea.com/aa/en/catalog/products/90303880/ - Ladda 900mah - AAA - $7.95 - In Stock.
http://www.ikea.com/aa/en/catalog/products/20303874/ - Ladda 1000mah - AA - $5.95 - In Stock.
http://www.ikea.com/aa/en/catalog/products/30303883/ - Ladda 500mah - AAA - $4.95 - In Stock.I personally wouldn't go for the lower capacity ones as they are too low to hold a decent charge for a long time and will run out faster.
I can confirm the higher AAA one is Made in Japan which normally means made at FDK which is the old Eneloop factory.
You can charge them in this:
http://www.ikea.com/aa/en/catalog/products/20303647/ - Storhogen - Battery Charger - $44.95 - In Stock.
Great charger as well from reading the manual, it has individual channels and delta v cutoff. It also charges slow so should prolong the life of the cells.
http://www.ikea.com/au/en/manuals/storhogen-battery-charger-…
Work out the sums and rechargeables if you use enough batteries frequently enough will come out ahead.
Couldnt find it in the Perth City store
Penruff
None at Chadstone, VIC
Sadly none at 4506, but thanks for posting just in case!
None at Forest Hill, vic.
None at Highpoint.
None in the esttemed halls of Ye Olde Reject Shoppe at Cessnock (Royal Warrant pending) on Tuesday.
those nasty nails indicate hard working man whos trying to feed his young family on budget