Great Alkaline AA/AAA Battery Hunt

RufusA

alanobrien wrote:

I was in Halfords yesterday.

They are currently doing their own brand of alkalines.
A pack of 16 for £3.99 for AA or AAA but its a Bogoff so pretty good value.

You can also mix and match AA with AAA if you want.

Checked in Halfords yesterday and the 16 pack was some exhorbitant price in mine. The £3.99 pack of AA's was just a 4 pack and even as a bogoff makes it more expensive (50p/Battery) than Duracells elsewhere which are typically under £3 for a 4+4 pack.

Rufus.

RufusA

royalsteve wrote:

you are much better with rechargeable Nimh batteries for most stuff, except smoke alarms....<snip>

Good point. The only problem I have with rechargeables is the self discharge!

Unless I am unlucky if you put a fully charged battery in a kids toy that doesn't have a high power drain (i.e. a few flashing LEDs and a bit of tinkly music), and is used occasionally. Then in my experience a rechargeable will last about 3 weeks, whilst an Alkaline will happily go on for 6 months plus. Where the battery doors on some toys are fragile, or require dismantling of half the toy to change the batteries this can be an important consideration.

Also would need to train SWMBO not to bin the batteries when she changes them - I've already lost 5 high capacity nimhs this way!

However I do still need Alkalines as when buying kids toys as gifts, I always make sure I give the correct batteries with the toy so that they can play with it on the day.

Rufus.

fergee

Richer Sounds sell the duracell AA 4 pk for £1 in their shops and SVP sell packets of 4 sanyo nimh AA rechargeables 2500mah batteries for £2.25. These are a bargain, and are ideal for cameras, mp3 players and r/c toys. I have been using them for a while, superb. The svp duracell batteries are quite cheap also.

http://www.blankdiscshop.co.uk/acatalog/recharge.html
http://www.blankdiscshop.co.uk/acatalog/duracell.html

bingsy

http://www.battery-force.co.uk/bf/detail/KCAAYY004A/show.html

£0.39p for a pack of 4 (10p each)

Delivery charges seem to be very reasonable as well.

3% in Rpoints also available. I should imagine that other cashback sites are also affiliated with this shop.

Prices including delivery :

1 pack - £1.44p (36p per battery)
5 packs - £4.20p (21p per battery)
10 packs - £7.65p (19p per battery)
20 packs - £12.75p (16p per battery)


http://www.battery-force.co.uk/bf/detail/FAAANI004I/show.html

Fameart Overnight Charger
4x 2300mah AA Nimh's
Mini Tripod
Camera Case

£9.46p (£11.84p Including delivery)




http://www.battery-force.co.uk/detail_FAAANI004F.html

Fameart Overnight charger
4x 2300mah Nimh's

£7.96p (£9.87p Including delivery)




http://www.battery-force.co.uk/detail_FAAANI004G.html

Fameart Overnight Charger
4x AA 700mah NiCd (NOT NIMH)

£3.16p (£4.95p Including delivery)

Note that the one above includes NiCd batteries NOT NIMH's. Suitable for remote controls etc. According to the blurb, the charger will charge NIMH's though.

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Whitefiver

Might be worth looking at Directfoto - seems to be really chaep for alkalines (<£1), and offer free postage.

Also printing and memory prices seem reasonable too.

Not a personal recommendation (yet), but I saw them suggsted elsewhere.

Regards,

White

frosty

Our local pound shop (poundland) had 8 pack of sony AA batteries for £1.00 and 10 AAA for a £1.

binz_81

Whitefiver wrote:

Might be worth looking at Directfoto - seems to be really chaep for alkalines (<£1), and offer free postage.

Also printing and memory prices seem reasonable too.

Not a personal recommendation (yet), but I saw them suggsted elsewhere.

Regards,

White

Just ordered a 4pk of highpower AAs for digital camera - kodak max @ 99p.
If they last as long and are as good as site claims then this is a great bargain.

Thanks whitefiver :snow_grin

snax

I was in Asda and noticed a bogof on fujitsu AA's ... x4 [+ x4 free]for £1 - [12.5p each], there were others but can't remember the offer.
My OH bought the Philips AA's mentioned earlier from Au Natural [another bogof offer...x12[+x12 free!] for £3 - [12.5p each]
And I bought a x20 pack of AA's for £1 [5p each] and a x24 pack of AAA's also for £1 [ just over 4p each] from the local sunday market - 'Powercell' brand - seem to be a Market Traders favourite 'cos everybody was selling them.... check out your local midweek market if there's one near you.

Kpnuts_2

40 x high power alkaline batteries £6.55 + vat = 7.70 = 19p each
at
http://cpc.farnell.com/images/en_CC/powerplus_130106.pdf

also many other sizes / prices

I've used numerous times and recieved delivery next working day, only snag is that to get free delivery the order total must be £35 without vat - but their catalogue is very extensive

Fibabe

Morrisons have BOGOF on all their Duracell batteries. It's £2.89 per pack and you get one free. All sizes by the looks of things.