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Title: AAA* battery Charger?
Post by: Otraotaku on April 15, 2006, 07:20:54 pm

 ??? is there such a thing, cause i wanted to go a little retro with an old pocket game boy.

Title: Re: AAA* battery Charger?
Post by: toolaa on April 15, 2006, 07:32:46 pm

I use a standard AA charger and bent the contact tabs out about 1/4" to hold onto the smaller batteries.  Panasonic makes AAA 750mh batteries, I think I brought them at sams club.

Title: Re: AAA* battery Charger?
Post by: crashwg on April 15, 2006, 07:54:07 pm

it might be hard to find a charger design specifically for AAA but there are multi ones that do AA, AAA, C, D, 9V.  I have one, energizer makes it.  It was $20 for the charger and it's like $6 for a pair of AAA I believe.

Title: Re: AAA* battery Charger?
Post by: pointdablame on April 15, 2006, 08:25:21 pm

http://www.thomasdistributing.com/

Go get a Maha AA/AAA battery charger.  They are (IMHO) the best damn battery chargers you can get, and the Maha Powerex batteries are also the best rechargeable cells I've used.  I have Energizer and PowerEx cells of the same mah rating, and there is no comparison, the Mahas last longer.

You may be able to find a charger cheaper than thomasdistributing, but I've ordered from them a number of times.  They are great.

Title: Re: AAA* battery Charger?
Post by: SirPeale on April 15, 2006, 08:43:45 pm

You can get a decent 1 hour charger that comes with AA batteries, and fits both AA and AAA.  Getting the AAA batteries will be up to you.

Title: Re: AAA* battery Charger?
Post by: Mr_Biggs on April 15, 2006, 08:51:58 pm

ratshack sells a NiCad/NiMH charger that includes adapters for AAA batteries.

Title: Re: AAA* battery Charger?
Post by: DrewKaree on April 21, 2006, 12:27:53 am

Wal-Mart sells a two-hour charger that accepts 2 AAA's or 2/4 AA's at a time.  The charger itself is no bigger than a deck of cards, and can be powered from either an AC outlet or it also comes with a cigarette lighter adaptor if you wanna hook something up straight from a PC power supply. 

Cost was $15 plus tax

Title: Re: AAA* battery Charger?
Post by: 2600 on April 21, 2006, 08:02:47 am

Quote from: pointdablame on April 15, 2006, 08:25:21 pm

http://www.thomasdistributing.com/

Go get a Maha AA/AAA battery charger.  They are (IMHO) the best damn battery chargers you can get, and the Maha Powerex batteries are also the best rechargeable cells I've used.  I have Energizer and PowerEx cells of the same mah rating, and there is no comparison, the Mahas last longer.

You may be able to find a charger cheaper than thomasdistributing, but I've ordered from them a number of times.  They are great.

Second that.

Title: Re: AAA* battery Charger?
Post by: Stingray on April 21, 2006, 03:55:00 pm

I've got one that I've had for years that does AA and AAA.  I'm pretty certain I bought it at Wal-Mart.

-S

Title: Re: AAA* battery Charger?
Post by: USSEnterprise on April 21, 2006, 04:44:22 pm

We've got a radioshack one that can do either four AA NiMH/NiCd or four AAA NiMH/NiCd in six hours. Got it about a year ago. IIRC, for $30, it came with four NiMH AA Batteries