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 Excellent Charger August 28, 2008
Must Love Cats (New Jersey, USA)
30 out of 30 found this review helpful
I've used this charger for over four years with complete satisfaction. This is a fine piece of German engineering; well worth the price. I bought it because it can charge any number of any assortment of AA, AAA, C, D, 9V batteries at the same time, and lots of them. You can also insert new batteries at any time any others are charging. Here's a tip: Since each cell is monitored for charge level, you can leave batteries in the charger, indefinitely. That effectively counters the self-discharge problem older NiMH batteries have, since the batteries stored in this charger are kept at full charge. Of course, you'll want to buy eneloops (SANYO eneloop 4 Pack AA NiMH Pre-Charged Rechargeable Batteries, which I've used) or Ansmann Max E's (Ansman Max-E AA NiMh 2100 Mah LD, Ultra Low Discharge Batteries, Pack of 4, which I haven't used), with long shelf lives, from here on-out. This charger works fine with them, too. I'd like to see Ansmann provide some-sort of wall-mounting tabs or screw holes in this charger. I had to epoxy-on my own. Maybe they already have, it's been four years!
Versatile charger takes up little space and even looks good May 28, 2007
Eric B (Northern California)
22 out of 22 found this review helpful
I've had the Ansmann Energy 8 charger for about 1 year now and it has been excellent. Batteries charge at a good clip, the charger tells you their exact state, and (most important) it lets you charge a variety of different battery types at once.
It doesn't take up much space and even looks pretty good (well, for a battery charger anyway). I highly recommend this -- and in fact 2 of my friends have bought them over the past year and have had similarly excellent experiences. Don't be fooled by the lousy $20 chargers you can by from major battery manufacturers. Those things are cheap and of course don't do well (why should they -- the battery folks want to sell you more batteries, not fewer!). This charger is expensive for a reason. It actually works.
Well worth the price January 30, 2009
Michelle Szilagyi (Gregory, MI USA)
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
I bought this charger after reading rave reviews all over on it. And I have to say that they were all right. I had a bunch of old NiCd batteries that I've had mixed results with on two other chargers (one of which is a Maha, another top of the line brand). This charger recognized and was able to revive batteries that the Maha charger would not. This charger is also very fast and extremely easy to use, just place the batteries in and it does the rest automatically. It performs a quick test and then does a refresh process then charges each battery independently. You can charge NiCd and/or NiMH at the same time. I highly recommend this charger, it's well constructed and is a fine piece of equipment.
Charger is GREAT! August 25, 2008
George Shelburne (Fort Lauderdale)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I had old recargable batteries I had not used in years and several were not usable. This unit brought over half of them back to full use with on a couple of chargin cycles. Great Product!!!
Initial impressions and Ansmann's USA website info June 10, 2009
Barrett A. Steele (Newport Beach, CA, USA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This review is for the Ansmann Energy 8 (part number 5407022) charger. I just started using it, so more info will follow... but I wanted to share Ansmann's USA website, in case you were having trouble with their German one. Its: [...]
On that website, you can find a list of resellers in your area. If you have questions about the products, ask the resellers, or use the live chat feature on the Ansmann USA website. I found them to be very helpful.
Note that Ansmann also sells an Energy 8 "Plus" charger and an Energy 8 "Professional" charger. According to their representatives, the "Plus" charger (not available currently on Amazon) has the very same functions as the "regular" Energy 8, but has a more streamlined body and "updated" LED displays. However, the charging and refreshing functions are the same.
The "Professional" series is a 19" rack-mountable device, despite the photos that the German website shows. If you look at the US website, it shows the 19" rack-mountable design. The "Professional" series isn't available in the US yet (according to their reps) because of some patent issues with the battery testing function that the professional series touts.
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