Rayovac PS3D Universal Battery Charger for AA, AAA, 9V, C and D Rechargeable Batteries
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Customer Reviews of Rayovac PS3D Universal Battery Charger for AA, AAA, 9V, C and D Rechargeable Batteries
Customer Review: Highly Recomended
Summary: 4 Stars
Recharges all 3 kinds of batteries:alkaline, NiMH, NiCad. Recognizes the battery kind automatically.
Accepts all "1.5" volt battteries, AA, AAA, C, D.
Batteries are found in every electronics and department store:
WallMart, Kmart, Circuit City, Eckerd, Walgreens, Target, BestBuy etc.
The only bad news: 110 V only. It would be nice to have this toy in a 100-240 V AC auto mode.
Customer Review: Good Charger
Summary: 4 Stars
It's the first one we've ever owned. It works good for recharging our cordless mouse batteries.
It takes over half a day for it to recharge two AA's, somewhat longer than an hour. But, overall we're happy with it and not having to keep a stockpile of batteries.
Customer Review: OK charger
Summary: 3 Stars
This recharger functions good and does the job it is designed for. Its compatibility for several different types of batteries (AA, AAA, C, D) is a good feature to have.
I got this for the batteries of my digital camera. However the unit is SO large (You can kill someone with it). It is not practicle to carry this when you travel. That's why I gave this three stars.
If you're looking for something to use only at home and don't intend to carry with you when you travel, this may be a good buy. Otherwise definitely look for something smaller.
Customer Review: This is NOT a 1 hour charger!
Summary: 3 Stars
Even though the description says: "New 1 hour charger", it is NOT a 1 hour charger. I just got mine and is the SAME Universal Rayovac Charger that Amazon sells with free super shipping. So save the nine dollars for shipping if you want this PS3 Universal Charger and get it from Amazon instead. I had a 1 hour charger from Rayovac for years and it died recently and unfortunately it appears they no longer support a 1 hour battery charger. The PS3 is the best they make, but the Amazon one is the better deal.Customer Review: Warning! Most of the reviews here apply to a different - better - charger
Summary: 1 Stars
Most of the positive reviews here apply to the PS3 charger, not to the PS20/PS3D. I bought the latter, which is being sold here, thinking I was getting the former. I accept that I am responsible for not being more careful. This charger differs from the Rayovac PS3 in almost every significant way:
1. It has two independent channels, not 4.
2. It will not charge one battery in one channel, only 2 batteries in each channel. Need to recharge one battery or three? Tough luck. Your choices are zero, two or four (except for 9V batteries). The two battery slots in each channel are apparently linked in series, not in parallel, so each battery in a given channel gets the same current at all times.
3. It is only intended for use with NiMH batteries, not NiCd or rechargeable alkaline batteries.
4. It is not remotely smart. It makes no effort to determine battery type or if batteries are fully charged. It puts out a constant current at 2.8V and never stops. (This voltage is specified on the back of the charged and is what makes me thing that the two batteries in each cell are linked in series.) It is up to you to guess when the pair of batteries is fully charged and pull them out then. Also, if you're putting a charged battery in with a discharged one in order to charge an odd number of discharged batteries, they both get the same treatment. The only thing that varies is that larger batteries get higher currents (D=560mA, C=440mA, AA=260mA, AAA=120mA, 9V=14mA).
5. It charges four AA or AAA batteries at a time, not eight.
6. The status indicator tells you nothing very helpful. It turns on when you have two batteries in a cell and never turns off.
Avoid this charger. The only advantage I can think of for it is that, like other completely dumb chargers, it will charge batteries that other chargers reject as dead. Sometimes such batteries are just completely discharged and work well after being charged by a dumb charger like this one.