[OT] Maplin discounted rechargeables - any good?

[WM]

Maplin is currently selling its own brand rechargeable batteries at half price:

four 2000mAh NiMH AA cells at an offer price of £3.99

Is this a good price?

What sort of quality is Maplin's own brand NiMH batteries?

Does anyone know who makes them for Maplin?

[MPJ]

If it's their silver & red Vanson (?) ones, I've had some that leaked ~ they went straight in the bin

[Jackie Green]

it's the green ones. I just bought a dozen.

[me]

I have had some silver and red ones for several years, work fine

[Minty]

For the price they are you can't complain even if they do leak after a while. At ful price £14-99 for a dozen, they are probably cheaper than single use alkalines, and when they're on offer at £9-99 they're a bargain!

[Minty]

I've got both and they seem to be identical except that they've now branded them Maplin instead on Vanson.

[Jackie Green]

TBH i've never had rechargeables before so i wont know if they're good or not,lol.

[mcbrien410]

I'll stick with ....

and their 2300mAH UniRoss types. I've had some for two or more years with no probs.

Chris.

[Odie Ferrous]

I agree. Good battery that actually seems to *really* last the 2300mAH length.

Buy cheap crap, you get cheap crap.

Odie

[Fishman]

It seems 7dayshop also do 2600mAh ones. (but they are not as good as the v.b.n. 2600mAh ones ???) £6.99 / pack of 4

Extract from the website......

"Pack of 4 x 2600 mAh super high capacity rechargeable AA (LR6) batteries." " These are one of the very best capacity Ni-Mh batteries available today, excepting the very brand new 2600 mAh !!"

Confused ? - so am I.

[Bob Martin]

I get all my rechargeables from 7-Day-Shop

[Owain]

I suppose that depends on the value of the equipment in which they leak ...

Owain

[WM]

I think the silver/red ones are NiCd as opposed to NiMH.

[geewhizza]

Anyone know of some reasonable 15min (uniross sprint ) rechargable batteries?

[Graham W]

Seen these which are coming on the market?

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[Alex Butcher]

[snip]

Was this during charging, use, or whilst on the shelf? What kind of charger do you use - smart (with temperature monitoring? fan? -delta V? independent channels?) or dumb timed/untimed?

Best Regards, Alex.

[Cullen Skink]

Ebay seller itl-e has an excellent rep in another forum I read and has 4x AA 2500mAh NiMH rechargeable batteries at £3.99 plus .85p P&P. The batteries are supposed to be excellent.

[MPJ]

uniross dumb charger, 2 cells per channel ~ they leaked from the base whilst on the shelf after about a dozen cycles.

[BigBrian]

I had 4 uniross 2300mAh bought on a deal, didn't open the packet for a year, charged them up, didn't work! not much of a deal :-(

[Les]

They work fine.