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Subject: [OM] Re: Eneloop Prices/costco
From: Tim Hughes <timhughes@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:54:19 -0800 (PST)
Costco still has this offer going on, although it took me a while to find them 
tucked away in the
store.   Mark Dapoz was visiting and we both took advantage of the offer.
It is not offered on the Costco website.

Tim Hughes

--- Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> At my local store, I bought for $25.99 a cute little carrying/storage 
> case containing:
> 8 x AA
> 4X AAA
> 1 x four bay charger
> 2 x AA => C adapters
> 2 x AA => D adapters
> 
> > I have not bought them  for sometime and the last time I was paying about 
> > ~$3/cell or $4/cell,
> for
> > 4 cells with a travel charger thrown in. compared: Regular NiMh go for 
> > about $1/cell @ 2.2Ah
> cells
> > in quantity 20.
> >   
> If, as I did, you want the charger, that's a very good deal, I think. 
> Even if you value charger and adapters at only $2 total, the batteries 
> are $2 each.
> 
> If the charger is worth $5 and the adapters $1 a pair, the batteries are 
> $1.60 apiece.
> 
> Less appealing if you have no use for the AAAs. So far, they work very 
> well in one of my flashlights with umpteen LEDs. This is another use 
> where conventional NIMH are useless, as it involves standing unused for 
> long periods.
> 
> Capacity issues are opaque to me. Energizer list their standard 
> alkalines at 2850 mAh, while the eneloops are 2000 mAh. Yet the eneloop 
> package claims about 5 times the shot capacity in a digicam. With a 
> Sanyo DSC-S4 camera, temp. 77F, flash every third shot and one shot 
> every 20 seconds, they claim 117 shots with alkaline and 514 with eneloops.
> 
> And none of that says anything about use in a flashlight, radio, remote 
> control, etc. They tout them for all these and other uses, but provide 
> no relative life info.
> 
> In any case the eneloops are worth much more to me than any standard 
> NiMH because of the nature of my general use.
> 
> Moose
> 
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