Lidl (Italy) Battery charger & 8 AA's

Capt'n Midnight

http://www.lidl.it/it/index.nsf/pages/c.o.oow.20041125.p.Caricabatterie_con_batterie

they had them here for €20 last year
might be on the way here too €17.98 !


8 AA NiMH 2000mAh - 4 times as much as the first NiCAD rechargables !
and an adaptor for car charger

DéiseGirl

Sorry if this was posted before, but it'll be in Irish stores from the 6th of December.

unkel

D&#233 wrote: »

it'll be in Irish stores from the 6th of December.

So it will

Thanks Capt'n for the alert. I got two the last time and they are super value for money. I'm only interested in the batteries really. Anybody want the chargers for cheap?

rubadub

Does the charger do AAA C or those small 9V?

peckerhead

unkel wrote:

I'm only interested in the batteries really...

Looky here so, unkel. OK, only 1700mAh, but... 4 for £3.48/€5-ish? (incl p&p).

And they do post to Ireland, I've bought off them before...

decbuck

I would buy the charger off you. I need a recharger but for AAA batteries.

Does this recharger do these?

rubadub

http://stores.ebay.co.uk/The-Battery-And-Fun-Shop

£3.65 for 4xAA 2400mAh
I ordered a load of them off him, he charged me £4 postage. I searched the brand vapextech and a guy on a forum said they were fine. they are 1.25V, usually they are only 1.2V

€14 for a similar pack of 4 in peats
http://www.peats.ie/cgi-bin/shop/db.cgi?view=1&id=7174&type=6&path=13x148x346

samo

peckerhead wrote:

Looky here so, unkel. OK, only 1700mAh, but... 4 for £3.48/€5-ish? (incl p&p).

And they do post to Ireland, I've bought off them before...

just wondering ...I emailed this guy on ebay and he said would only post to Northern Ireland, was this the case for you??

samo

just while I think of it, I did a search on ebay for rechargeable C batteries and didnt some up with anything special (4.25 each!) so if anyone has a link for rechargeable C's would appreciate it!

I need 8 of them as for radio is work! Not cheap unless you hit the pound shop every few days at the moment

thegills

Probably a silly question. But are these Lidl batteries 1.5V. i bought the Remote Controlled car for €35 a while back and it needs 8 AA 1.5v batteries.
thegills

rubadub

samo wrote:

just while I think of it, I did a search on ebay for rechargeable C batteries and didnt some up with anything special (4.25 each!) so if anyone has a link for rechargeable C's would appreciate it!

I need 8 of them as for radio is work! Not cheap unless you hit the pound shop every few days at the moment

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=50623&item=5734805203&rd=1
$20 for 8. says he will only post to US or Canada, email him and ask. most will send, I think they just don't want to deal with non-english speakers.
I'd say postage would be 15, 20max

rubadub

thegills wrote:

Probably a silly question. But are these Lidl batteries 1.5V. i bought the Remote Controlled car for €35 a while back and it needs 8 AA 1.5v batteries.
thegills

They would be 1.2V (or a small chance of being 1.25V)
usually it doesnt matter much, needing 8 of them is very odd and is a drop of 2.4V which is a lot. Is it 4 in the controller and 4 in the car? if so it would probably work fine

Capt'n Midnight

thegills wrote:

Probably a silly question. But are these Lidl batteries 1.5V. i bought the Remote Controlled car for €35 a while back and it needs 8 AA 1.5v batteries.
thegills

They will do.

The voltage of a battery drops off as it discharges, from the attached you can see that the 1.2V NiCAD has a higher output voltage when 50% discharged than the alkaline batteries (Duracell) or Zinc batteries - even though they are supposed to be "1.5V"

BTW: LeChance = Zinc Carbon
NiMH are very similar to NiCAD - but I couldn't find a chart with them all on it.

http://homepages.which.net/~paul.hills/Batteries/BatteriesBody.html

It's an old table but 2.3Ah is the figure they have for Duracell type batteries !

http://www.repairfaq.org/ELE/F_Batteries.html

Type      Zinc Carbon    Zinc Chloride    Alkaline Magnesium	Ni-CAD
AA		0.9		1.1		2.3            0.5

replytohere2004

Another crap deal from Lidl. Was there this morning. The charger is only for AA batteries and includes 8.

A better deal is this one from Argos @ 32.99.

http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10001&langId=-1&catalogId=2501&productId=104625&clickfrom=name

It charges aa/aaa/c/d batteries and comes with 10batteries.
Price in UK is £24.99, which comes to 36.11euro @ http://www.xe.net/ucc/.

A similar charger to the Lidl one is 12.50euro is Argos, except it only comes with 4aa.

Wasn't expecting to find something cheaper here in a uk store.


Why do people shop in Lidl CrapStores©?

Capt'n Midnight

replytohere2004 wrote:

Another crap deal from Lidl. Was there this morning. The charger is only for AA batteries and includes 8.

Isn't that what my first post said ? except that it also does AAA and can charge 8 batteries at a time.

A better deal is this one from Argos @ 32.99.
It charges aa/aaa/c/d batteries and comes with 10batteries.
Price in UK is £24.99, which comes to 36.11euro @ http://www.xe.net/ucc/.

A similar charger to the Lidl one is 12.50euro is Argos, except it only comes with 4aa.

- is the one that only charges 2 batteries at a time ?
I think you'll find that the Argos batteries are 1300mAh, the LIDL ones at 2000mAH have a higher capacity , check out the capacity on the C and D cells as these will probably be lower IIRC the LIDL C-Cells were 4000mAH last time.
Also the LIDL charger will run from a cigarette lighter socket in a car which can be handy.

thetrickykid

Picked up my new batteries/charger yesterday, and I have to say it seems like a great deal. Batteries were bought for new digital camera and already seem to last far longer than the previous old set of batteries I was using which died if I looked at them for too long.

But hey, its Lidl, so ask me again this time next week and I may have turfed them out cause they're faulty or the charger blew up!

peckerhead

samo wrote:

...I emailed this guy on ebay and he said would only post to Northern Ireland, was this the case for you??

Samo, I emailed them (bargainbuys@tiscali.co.uk) off eBay but dealt with a girl called Elaine, and she agreed to send stuff at the same price as for the UK. And they do 'C' & 'D' size @ 99p + £2.49 for two — see here & here.

Turn on the Irish charm...

P.S. Haven't time to find the link, but afaik Maplin are doing the same Argos €32.99 deal for €29.99. Not bad if you need a couple of 'C' size...

All this talk of breasts is making me, er, hungry!

Capt'n Midnight

samo wrote:

just while I think of it, I did a search on ebay for rechargeable C batteries and didnt some up with anything special (4.25 each!) so if anyone has a link for rechargeable C's would appreciate it!

I need 8 of them as for radio is work! Not cheap unless you hit the pound shop every few days at the moment

C cells are the same length as AA's - if you could get a "sleeve" for them you could just pop them in. Maybe old hair curlers or thin plastic pipe ?