{"id":391,"date":"2009-01-07T19:33:49","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T02:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/?p=391"},"modified":"2013-12-14T12:04:57","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T17:04:57","slug":"sometimes-you-get-less-than-you-paid-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/sometimes-you-get-less-than-you-paid-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes, you get less than you paid for&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Between the digital cameras, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gpscentral.ca\/products\/garmin\/60csx.htm\">GPS<\/a>, several remotes, electric toothbrushes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mastermindtoys.com\/store\/product.asp?product_code=790342&#038;subcat=92&#038;agecat=0&#038;cat=0&#038;brand=47&#038;page=1\">R\/C toys<\/a>, flashlights and other assorted electronics, we use a lot of rechargeable batteries, especially AAs. Last fall I needed a few more&#8230; so I bought 8 &#8220;BTY&#8221; brand AAs from Ebay. I didn&#8217;t look for any reviews&#8230; figuring the were so cheap they&#8217;d be &#8220;good enough&#8221; (how bad could they be, right?). For about $1.00 per battery, I wasn&#8217;t expecting much.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/batteries_800.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/batteries_256.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"batteries_256\" width=\"256\" height=\"192\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/batteries_256.jpg 256w, https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/batteries_256-192x144.jpg 192w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>But I got even less than I bargained for.<\/p>\n<p>The ratings on the batteries was &#8220;2500&#8221; mah&#8230; but they never seemed to last very long. It didn&#8217;t make much of a difference until I got a Wii Fit for Christmas&#8230; then charging the batteries every 2 days with light use got to be a bit much. So I did some poking around, found a couple reviews&#8230; which said the BTY batteries were crap. Surprise! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Powerex got good reviews, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulsfinest.com\/Maha-PowerEX-AA-2700-mAh-NiMH-Batteries-4-pack-with-case-p-32.html\">and the price was right<\/a> (although about 4x the price of the BTY&#8217;s). I also picked up a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulsfinest.com\/SUPER-SALE-Maha-PowerEx-C9000-WizardOne-NiMH-NiCAD-AA-AAA-WorldWide-charger-p-15.html\">good charger<\/a>: one that can cycle NiCD\/NiMH AA\/AAAs and tell you their true capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Results? The new Powerex 2700&#8217;s almost held their rated capacity (2600-ish mah). The BTY 2500&#8217;s I tested averaged averaged around <strong>470 mah<\/strong> (<em>less than 20% their printed capacity!<\/em>). Although Powerex was about 4x the price of the Ebay specials, they delivered over 5x the charge.<\/p>\n<p>The Wii controllers, Wii Fit, and 2 GameCube Wavebird controllers use 12 AA&#8217;s: so I need to buy even more: you can bet I&#8217;ll be more carefull with Ebay purchases from now on \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between the digital cameras, GPS, several remotes, electric toothbrushes, R\/C toys, flashlights and other assorted electronics, we use a lot of rechargeable batteries, especially AAs. Last fall I needed a few more&#8230; so I bought 8 &#8220;BTY&#8221; brand AAs from <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/sometimes-you-get-less-than-you-paid-for\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Sometimes, you get less than you paid for&#8230;<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ptY4v-6j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/1011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}