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See article keywords and concepts |  REPPED: If you're searching for high-end NiMH battery chargers, you'll find the number of contending products is few. Only two consumer-level battery chargers are competing for the top slot: the La Crosse Technology BC-900 AlphaPower Battery Charger and the Powerex MH-C9000 WizardOne battery charger. For this review, I purchased them both and conducted numerous tests over a period of several weeks. Ultimately, I liked the Powerex MH-C9000 so much that I decided to carry it on www.BetterLifeGoods.com , so keep that in mind as you read this review. |
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See article keywords and concepts | | From my extensive research on battery chargers, I have not found a safer charger on the market. In fact, most of the cheaper battery chargers you'll find in retail stores are downright dangerous. Did you know that many low-cost chargers have no temperature or voltage sensing abilities whatsoever? That's a recipe for a fire hazard. If you're going to charge batteries in your home, especially at night or when you might be away from your house during the day, be sure to use a battery charger with advanced safety features that can prevent fires. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | Only two consumer-level battery chargers are competing for the top slot: the La Crosse Technology BC-900 AlphaPower Battery Charger and the Powerex MH-C9000 WizardOne battery charger. For this review, I purchased them both and conducted numerous tests over a period of several weeks. Ultimately, I liked the Powerex MH-C9000 so much that I decided to carry it on www.BetterLifeGoods.com , so keep that in mind as you read this review. Here's my critical look at both products:
The La Crosse BC-900 Battery Charger
The BC-900 offers four main modes:
Charge: Charges the battery to full capacity. | | Cheap battery chargers that lack important safety features can be readily purchased for less than $20 practically anywhere, so it you just want a blind charger that slams current into a battery with no idea of the actual capacity, go get a charger at Wal-Mart or Target. But if you want a quality charger that puts you in control while maximizing the life of your NiMH batteries, go with the MH-C9000.
The WizardOne MH-C9000 battery charger is available at www.BetterLifeGoods.com
PowerEx NiMH batteries (AAA, AA, C, D, 9V) are also available at www.BetterLifeGoods. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | It took a year of searching, and almost everything I found out there was junk. Some battery chargers actually HARM your batteries. The "quick charge" chargers are the worst. Some of them burn up your batteries with too much current, permanently reducing their life. I've seen quick chargers destroy NiMH batteries in just a few months.
The truth is that quick charging batteries destroys them and reduces their capacity. The best way to charge a battery is with slow current -- the slower, the better. I recommend 200mA (milli-amps) for all NiMH batteries except 9V, which should be charged at 50mA. | | Finding a high-quality battery charger
Quality NiMH battery chargers are hard to find. I searched the market for well over a year to find one that I could recommend. Most of what I found was very disappointing. Typical chargers on the market suffer from serious drawbacks such as a lack of safety features, a lack of battery analyzer functions, hard-to-read displays, difficult operation and poorly-written manuals.
But I persisted in my search and finally found what is clearly the best consumer-level battery charger available in the marketplace today. | | Most battery chargers operate on a "charge and pray" principle, meaning they just slam your battery with a certain amount of current for a certain period of time, regardless of what's happening with the battery temperature or voltage.)
But the MH-C9000 features truly advanced safety circuity. The charger's "Refresh" mode, for example, automatically rests one hour between charge and discharge cycles in order to keep the batteries at a low temperature (which also preserves battery life). | In fact, most of the cheaper battery chargers you'll find in retail stores are downright dangerous. Did you know that many low-cost chargers have no temperature or voltage sensing abilities whatsoever? That's a recipe for a fire hazard. If you're going to charge batteries in your home, especially at night or when you might be away from your house during the day, be sure to use a battery charger with advanced safety features that can prevent fires.
Nontoxic, Natural and EarthwiseDebra Lynn Dadd
See book keywords and concepts | | A small, easy-to-read catalog with simple items such as a solar personal stereo, battery chargers, a solar starter kit, 12-volt appliances.
Sun Watt Corporation. A small company that makes hybrid solar modules that produce electricity and hot water at the same time, and small, inexpensive solar battery chargers with good-quality batteries. B "We are operating out of a completely self-sufficient facility some distance from the nearest power line and use alternative energy in all our manufacturing processes."
Sunelco. The basics for solar power. | | Photovoltaic systems (with helpful worksheets), portable solar generators, windmills, solar battery chargers and batteries, 12-volt ap-liances.
Backwoods Solar Electric Systems. This catalog gives good background information that is easy for the beginner to understand. Carries the basics needed for self-sufficiency. B Operates a home with a three desk office and a product construction shop with power tools on solar energy with wind power as a backup on stormy days when there is no sun. | | A small company that makes hybrid solar modules that produce electricity and hot water at the same time, and small, inexpensive solar battery chargers with good-quality batteries. B "We are operating out of a completely self-sufficient facility some distance from the nearest power line and use alternative energy in all our manufacturing processes."
Sunelco. The basics for solar power.
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