These plots were made with West Mountain Radio’s Computerized Battery Analyzer: 

More battery plots can be found in the Pages section of this website under QRP>QRP & Batteries above.

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2 Responses to “Three generations of Sanyo Eneloops compared”

1. David Ryeburn says:

   February 12, 2012 at 1:23 am

   According to the Wikipedia article

   there is a catch with the Eneloop XX or Eneloop Pro. Quoting, “They have a higher capacity than regular eneloops, 2500mAh (Min 2400mAh). However, they retain only 75% of their initial charge after one year, and can only be recharged 500 times.”
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eneloop

   David, ex-W8EZE

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   • John AE5X says:

     February 12, 2012 at 6:05 am

     Hi David – thanks for the reply,

     I did read the comment you quoted in an Amazon review. Compared to the 1500 recharge cycles some NiMH batteries advertise, 500 does seem like getting the short end of the stick but…even if I used a set of 4 once a week, they’d last 10 years. I don’t use them near that often.

     Put another way, I have 2000 batteries for $20 (4 cells x 500 charge cycles).

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