Sony 15 Minute Battery Charger with 4 AA Ni MH Rechargeable Batteries

Customer Reviews

sony 15 min. charger

2008-08-08
This is one of the best items on the market for rechargeable batteries

Not very impressive.

2008-01-27
It is more than a year since I bought this. I was excited at first to have a battery charger to quickly charge in 15 minutes. There were several times that we were about to go for a trip and that I remember I do not have any ready AA batteries for my gadgets. If I still have 15 mins, then it is not too late.

Pros:
-It works OK with the Sony batteries it came with

Cons:
-It does very poor charging with other batteries other than Sony's. (Even if the fan and the light has turned off. Batteries are still far from fully charged). Particularly batteries that has lower than 2500mAh ratings.
-Usually you have a retractable prong on the charger itself to plug it on the wall. This one has a separate power supply that is as big as a brick! What's with that?
-You need some muscles to place and remove the batteries from the charger. This part of the design is strange and baffles me.
-A little loud (it has a built-in cooling fan)
-Expensive

Recommendations:
Check out the new low discharge batteries from Eneloop (Sanyo), Rayovac, Kodak, etc. before even thinking of buying this.

the need for speed

2007-12-26
If short charging time is the most important issue for you, this is the unit to get. If you take a lot of indoor photos for example, one set of batteries can charge in the time that you are depleting another. If your main purpose for using rechargeables is to reduce waste, perhaps you might obtain longer overall battery life with a slower type charger. It seems possible that leaving freshly charged batteries in the charger may cause some drain. ( I prefer to always remove them promptly when fully charged )

Effective recharger

2007-12-14
It is amazing to get your batteries fully recharged in only 15 minutes. Besides that, it is a quality valued product. The only thing I missed is the function of emptying the batteries before recharging them. Despite that, I would definitely recommend it.

not reliable

2007-12-03
After a year or two of very rare use (maybe once every 2 months), this charger stopped working. I can put any batteries in it and it always fails to charge. You'll know by the dreaded blinking light.

Another Sony product bites the dust...

2007-09-07
Sony's worldwide reputation for creating unique, attractive, high-quality, advanced technology products rests on a long line of innovations embraced by people from all walks of life. With a diverse product lineup serving a variety of lifestyles and industries, Sony continuously strives to introduce new products and technologies to meet changing market needs.

Battery's recharging life too short

2007-08-25
Pros: Fast recharge

Cons: Batteries' life is seriously reduce.

I think I only recharges these batteries for about 100 times and now they can't no longer be recharged by the charger. I think this is because the charger recharges the batteries too fast. I have to recharge the batteries with my other Ni-MH chargers because the Sony chargers refuses to charge it for me. Get the 1 hour sony charger instead of this 15 minutes one.

Note batteries gets extremely hot after recharges

Great, speedy battery charger.

2007-08-09
I have been using this battery charger for approximatley one year, and I couldn't be more pleased with it. While on vacation this past month, I wore out all my camera batteries. I plugged in my battery charger (which I fortunately had the foresight to bring with me) and in a half hour, I had four fresh batteries in my camera and a set of four spare batteries in my case. The batteries are long lasting, and the charger works quickly as advertised.

Nice Little Charger!

2007-07-12
Literature claims this unit can charge any combination of AA and AAA batteries - nice! This means if you have a battery with a bad cell (indicated by a blinking light), you can just try one at a time until you find the bad one. It also means you can charge anywhere from 1 - 4 batteries at a time. And with a 15-25 minute charge time, you can't beat it. Glad I chose this one over the other brands!

Could be better. Pick something else.

2007-05-19
I purchased this battery charger combo less than a year ago with less than 200 charge cycles and while it worked ok (not great), it's performance has steadily gotten worse over time.

The batteries only hold a charge for 2-3 days at best and from what I can tell, they are never fully charged (as checked with a multimeter).

I've tried other brand batteries (Rayovac, Duracell, etc...) and the charger refuses to charge them. The status light just blinks. I should have spent a bit more for a better charger.

I'm going to sell this unit to someone else and get the charger that I should have gotten in the first place.

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