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More expensive than your ~$1 Meritline chargers, not as smart as your $30+ Smart chargers, but this is pretty good value for the price I reckon. It's been $23 and $18 in the last month or so. The most notable feature is it acts as a portable back up charger for any iDevice / device that charges via USB as long as you've got some batteries charged up, so if you missed out on the portable Energizer charger recently (http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/76072) here is a good (albeit a bit bulkier) alternative for that point alone.
And yes, there does seem to be stock around (I searched most major postcodes and there wasn't any area with none that I could see, and there's 5 stores within 15kms of where I live that report as being in stock).
Features:
- 6-level charge protection
- Timer control protection (6.5 hours)
- Reverse polarity protection
- Over current and short circuit protection/defective and non-rechargeable battery detection
- Low current leakage minimises loss of capacity and maintains charging of battery by controlling current leakage
- Trickle charge to maintain battery charge
- Pulse and series charging technology for fast and efficient charging
- Powered by AC outlet
- LED charging indicators
- Charges up to 4xAA or 4xAAA NiMH or Ni-Cd Batteries
- Also portable back up charger for Mobile phones, PDA's, MP3, some Digital cameras and iPods
- Included accessories: USB cable, AC adaptor and selected connectors for Blackberry, Nokia, iPhone and Motorola mobile phones
cool…so eneloops will charge in this fine?