Panasonic and Sony AA Batteries

Up_For_the_Challenge

You see in Poundland and Poundworld Sony and Panasonic AA pack of 4 batteries being sold for £1. How do they compare to Duracell batteries that cost a lot more.

Spelunthus

All is explained here: http://www.batteryshowdown.com/results-lo.html The answer is that even Duracell from Poundland is not the same as some other Duracell......

stator

I generally buy the cheapest Alkaline batteries available, regardless of brand.
Zinc batteries are almost useless, only good for remote controls or similar. I am surprised by the number of companies willing to tarnish their name by putting it on Zinc batteries

Neil_Jones

You can quite often get a pack of 10 Kodak batteries for £1 in the Pound Shops, though they seem to be phasing them out in favour of the Sony Zinc batteries which not all devices like and even when they do, don't last five minutes anyway.

The Kodak Alkaline batteries are semi-decent depending on their use, my bog-standard analogue manual-setting clock that just tells the time they last months, sometimes a year or more, whereas my digital radio-controlled clocks I often end up changing those at least twice, sometimes three times a year on the Kodak batteries.

MarkBargain

Up_For_the_Challenge wrote: »

You see in Poundland and Poundworld Sony and Panasonic AA pack of 4 batteries being sold for £1. How do they compare to Duracell batteries that cost a lot more.

Help the environment and save yourself money in the long run by getting some Low self Discharge NiMH rechargeables. They come pre-charged, hold charge for ages and don't cost much, eg http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/4-x-Uniross-HYBRIO-AA-2100-mAh-Rechargeable-Batteries-Pre-Charged-NiMH-LR6-HR6/111374550842

esuhl

Rechargeables are better in every way. I haven't used disposable batteries for years. Far less environmental damage, cheaper, and more convenient.

molerat

Rechargeables are not suitable for very low consumption items.

As for normal alkalines I keep away from Duracell as they seem to be the most likely to leak battery on the market !

Tim_Richmond

I purchased a pack of Powercell batteries and they were rubbish,they hardly lasted 48 hours.an absolute waste of time. I found Duracell industrial AA batteries available on E Bay to be very reliable and a lot cheaper than Duracell AA purchased in high street retail outlets

esuhl

molerat wrote: »

Rechargeables are not suitable for very low consumption items.

Oh, really? Why is that, do they not hold their charge as well as disposables?

I've not had problems using rechargeables anywhere here. But I tend to use Eneloop batteries, which are quite expensive. (e.g. £10 for 4 x AA cells). They hold their charge very well compared to Energizer and Sony rechargeables.

It seems that battery technology has really come on in the past 15 years... even for old-style Ni-MH cells.

Richard53

molerat wrote: »

Rechargeables are not suitable for very low consumption items.

As for normal alkalines I keep away from Duracell as they seem to be the most likely to leak battery on the market !

The only disadvantage I have found with rechargeables is that they tend to die quite quickly. Disposables seem to have a longer 'tail' to their charge life. For example, with a cycle light, a disposable battery will probably get gradually dimmer with enough time to get you home, whereas a rechargeable can seemingly go from full to dead within minutes.

forgotmyname

The £ shop Sony batteries "USED" to be very good, but the ones they sell now are utter junk.

They weigh a lot less than they used to also.

Feel the weight of a 4 pack of duracell from a supermarket and then compare that to the 6/10/12 pack of batteries from the £ shops.

I buy the 9v Kodak ones for a remote control that i only use a couple of times a year. Use a couple of times and chuck them.