In bolivia my Maha/powerex AA Battery charger I've had for many years broke and it made me sad… and there was absolutely no doubt that when i got home I'd get another one.
Today the new one arrived and I have lots of AA batteries jumping up for joy that they will once again recieve the nourishment they long for so much.
100+ AA batteries
That's right… I own over 100 AA batteries.
I stocked up before I left to Bolivia because I knew that there would be days without power and I could use the AA adapter in the D800 grip to keep the camera running for days.
Used in
12 – I have 3 flash units each use 4 batteries
16 – 2 battery packs for my flash units using 8 each
16 – Both the D700 and D800 have adapters that allow the cameras to run on AA batteries
8 – 2 walky talkies that use batteries (specially when hiking)
4 – a cell phone / iPad charger that uses AA batteries
10 – Remote flash radio triggers 5 of them that use 2 each
Others – Keyboards and mice for computers
Backup – And all those devices need to be changed… some quicker than others
No Waiting – Then I don't want to have to be stuck always charging and barely having enough batteries… so finally I just bought a bunch extra so I could go through several shoots without worrying about charging.
NEW TOY
I just bought the MH-C9000 battery charger (top right) to go along with my old friend the 8-bay MH-C801D
This 4bay bulky charger says it does crazy stuff like:
Match battery capacities
Bring back to life old batteries
Find weakest links in sets of batteries
Refresh
Analyse batteries
Besides having another trusted charger will just plain help me get through my charging quicker. I trust the brand and I geekily look forward to what it can do
So anyone as Geeky about AA batteries as me?
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Nice one +Scott Jarvie I have lots of AA's too.
I chrage them all from my solar system at home, including my camera batteries., unless I am away for an extended time, all my photography is Solar powered
Green with envy +Scott Jarvie
+Neil Howard that's very impressive!
I've got a la crosse bc 900 that i fell in love the moment i bought it
Damn! That's a lot of weight…I am not as geeky about batteries lol. Then again I have not had to go somewhere where power was an issue…yet.
I own it's bigger brother and love it. Mine charges aa aaa c and d batteries. They make some awesome stuff
For a brief moment I thought those were bullets.
Thanks +Violeta Ivanova – I did a post about it here on G+ in May http://goo.gl/Wne5g
Not quite, but we have 2 kids, 9 and almost 7, with a bunch of powered toys, including a Wii with four remotes. I have an old four-at-a-time alkali battery charger from the 90s (Energizer, I think). I have one ziploc bag of AAA to D cells labeled "Need Charging" and another ziploc labeled "Charged", and I swap them out every day or so. I maybe have 30.
I'm glad that you have the compassion required to end their hunger! Those poor devices should consider themselves to be fortunate to be able to serve you
Just missing the nuclear reactor.
How do you like the 8-bay charger compared to the 4-bay? I have that C-9000 charger now but wish I could charge more batteries at once. The features on it are great though.
+Stan Olszewski Well I as well like the features but 4 bay is killing me… heck I want I 16 bay charger not a 4 bay
And the 8 bay does the main thing well… "charge" haha
It also does refresh and soft charges as well.
+Scott Jarvie, to be honest, I've only used my 4-bay to charge my batteries. The refresh feature takes far too long when you have 32+ AAs to work with.
I've got a BC900 charger and am blown away how many NiMh AA's I have test as bad after only a few years of occasional use. I am very much liking the new Tenergy Centura low self-discharge Ni-MH chemistry batts. Slightly less run time, but the things actually hold a charge for months!!
+George Whittam they say the eneloop batteries are still better in the long run
Question is – how do you store them? That's always been my problem, and I seem to be unable to separate freshly charged from old ones. So I gave up and now just go a buy a big pack of new batteries before each important shoot.
Dude. That's some serious battery weight. Respect.
I wouldn't know how to survive without my C800S – but I also have the "Makarov" battery mess problem…
i am new to all this. Still stunned looking at all those batteries …
Wow. I thought I had a lot of batteries but I top out at around 50!