It's interesting - the "overview" and specifications indicate that these are 1,300maH, whereas the picture of the side of the battery shows them to be 2,000maH. Big difference...
It's not clear from the description whether these are LSD, so I presume not.
The batteries are junk and you might actually be happier with an older 1300mAh design that self-discharges lower.... LSD = Low Self Discharge.
The charger itself looks like it's probably a medium-slow, dumb/timer based unit which makes it a shot in the dark whether your cells end up undercharged, overcharged, or rarely just right.
The low price is attractive but you'll probably end up wishing you stuck with Eneloops, Basics, Fujitsu pre-charged, or even Tenergy Centura, plus an entry level Delta -V type charger if nothing fancier.
The one useful thing I can come up with about this type of charger is that sometimes with marginal/bad cells a smart charger will refuse to charge them and just blink an error code while you can sometimes get enough juice in with a dumb charger to get them over a **** so a smart charger won't reject charging them the rest of the way.
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It's not clear from the description whether these are LSD, so I presume not.
The charger itself looks like it's probably a medium-slow, dumb/timer based unit which makes it a shot in the dark whether your cells end up undercharged, overcharged, or rarely just right.
The low price is attractive but you'll probably end up wishing you stuck with Eneloops, Basics, Fujitsu pre-charged, or even Tenergy Centura, plus an entry level Delta -V type charger if nothing fancier.
The one useful thing I can come up with about this type of charger is that sometimes with marginal/bad cells a smart charger will refuse to charge them and just blink an error code while you can sometimes get enough juice in with a dumb charger to get them over a **** so a smart charger won't reject charging them the rest of the way.
Thank you!