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BC1HU 110-240V Universal Fast Smart Charger for AA/AAA/C/D/9V Rechargeable Batteries
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Most Helpful First | Newest First | + Share3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Nice, robust, no-nonsense intelli charger.
(5 out of 5) by W. Crawford on Feb 3, 2009 (Transylvania)Good common sense design.
Thick guage plastic, robust lid, and no gimmicky readouts to go bad.
Straight forward, and should be long lasting, and reliable for a good price.
I bought a model above this one with an LCD display in the top of it, maybe from the same manufacturer. Junked display right out of the box!
Mounted onto the lid underneath by little, thin walled, molded screw posts with stripped out screws from the factory, and the display was mounted with pressure dependent contacts on the circuit board. Garbage!
That charger still works fine wit the same charging guts this one has, and still retains the LEDs to tell you the battery stages like this model, but the LCD display mounted to the underneath of a moving lid with an exposed ribbon cable is a totally junk design!
Do yourself a favor and just buy this one without the crap display module and save yourself the headaches.
It will not have you all PO'ed, when half the LCD dissappears, plus its $5 less!
Thick guage plastic, robust lid, and no gimmicky readouts to go bad.
Straight forward, and should be long lasting, and reliable for a good price.
I bought a model above this one with an LCD display in the top of it, maybe from the same manufacturer. Junked display right out of the box!
Mounted onto the lid underneath by little, thin walled, molded screw posts with stripped out screws from the factory, and the display was mounted with pressure dependent contacts on the circuit board. Garbage!
That charger still works fine wit the same charging guts this one has, and still retains the LEDs to tell you the battery stages like this model, but the LCD display mounted to the underneath of a moving lid with an exposed ribbon cable is a totally junk design!
Do yourself a favor and just buy this one without the crap display module and save yourself the headaches.
It will not have you all PO'ed, when half the LCD dissappears, plus its $5 less!
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
Not fast for all batteries
(3 out of 5) by P. Stotts on Feb 18, 2009 (CA)I bought this charger along with 8 Tenergy 10000mAh D cell batteries. I immediately placed four of the batteries in the charger. It is now 17 hours later and 3 of the 4 batteries are not showing a full charge. Only one is showing a green light (fully charged). The other 3 still have the red light showing (charging). Four hours after I started charging the batteries in the Tenergy I placed the other four D cells I received in an older Energizer charger that I had. They are done. The Tenergy BC1HU may be a great charger, but I am not sure about the "fast" claim.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Not smart
(1 out of 5) by Mark W. R. Wilson on Nov 10, 2009Too good to be true, at this price. Easy test- take the recharged batteries and put them back in-- there appears to be no overcharge protection, and the batteries will begin to heat up, especially the AAA due to the high charging current.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Great charger
(5 out of 5) by David Eikeland on Feb 3, 2009 (Newport, RI, USA)This is a great little charger. I got this because the variety of batteries it can charge, and that it can be used on both 120V and 240V. It's also nice that each battery has it's own charger light for each battery being charged. I also got the car charger, which could come in handy. It's only a few dollars and doesn't really affect the shipping, so you might as well get it :-)
decent for the money
(4 out of 5) by Justin R. Mattern on Nov 4, 2009 (CT)It is a little bigger than I expected and if you leave batteries in it for a long time it says they are charged but they are not. They have bled down and are basically empty. Not so "smart" of a charger after all.
Having a 9V charger is nice. I would buy this again because it is so much cheaper than other options but its not great, its just decent.
Having a 9V charger is nice. I would buy this again because it is so much cheaper than other options but its not great, its just decent.