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Invaluable for folks with kids!
My husband and I welcomed our son in April and with the swing, bouncer, muscial toys, not to mention the camera, we have found this charger invaluable. We have saved so much money in batteries by having this charger and rechargable batteries. It works great, and holds different sizes at the same time, which makes it convenient and fast to recharge. There is nothing worse than a screaming baby and dead batteries in the swing that will comfort him!

More convenience, less waste with rechargeable batteries
With a cordless keyboard, cordless mouse, digital camera, console game controller, cordless electric toothbrush, battery powered alarm clock, walkie-talkies, flashlights, and various remote controls, we chew through a lot of batteries. Even though we took care to collect our batteries for drop-off battery recycling, it still felt like a waste - bad for the environment and money down the drain. Not any more! I've been using this charging unit for almost a year, and it is such a relief to have batteries on hand and ready to go when needed.

I chose the Rayovac because it could accept a wide variety of battery sizes. It is solid and heavy, not suited for business trips, but perfect for living under a desk. It holds a lot of batteries and is very economically priced.

WIth our old charger, I had to be careful about over-charging, so we had to remove the batteries once they were charged. However, the charged batteries tended to discharge quickly, even if not in use, so we sometimes had to charge them several times just to have some ready when needed. It was such a pain, and many times we had to wait overnight for charged batteries. Well, you still have to wait for batteries to charge, but the ones that you've already charged are going to work just fine and be ready when you need them.

We've used several different brands of batteries, but the ones I prefer are the Sanyo eneloop which seem to discharge more slowly and last longer. I put some of these in my Apple wireless keyboard and they lasted for more than four months before I had to recharge them.

Good Product
This is a very good product and does all functions as it claims. I liked it. It is worth the money invested. I been using this product for last 4 months.

Long charge time
It works, it is heavy so it seems good, but it takes a pretty long time to charge batteries. You can probably get away with a few hours for AA batteries but for anything larger than that, overnight is needed. I had a set of brand new AA batteries (did not come charged) so I charged them for the first time and I had to leave it overnight in that situation, too.
For those of you buying the charger because you want to use rechargeable C or D batteries- did you know that the basic kind you'd buy at Walmart or Radio Shack have no more power than a AA battery? Look at the specs- you'll be surprised, I was. Essentially, these basic C and D's are nothing more than AA's in a larger sleeve!! (This is NOT true for the top of the line rechargeable C's and D's you can buy online at battery warehouses, and I don't think this is true for non-rechargeable, alkaline batteries). I had no idea until recently- otherwise, I wouldn't have even bought this charger. How you get around this is you can buy "adapters"/"converters" that are simple sleeves you slip your AA batteries into. Then, wa-la- you have C and D batteries, at a much lower cost (C and D rechargeables cost a LOT more than AA rechargeables). Search the web for a place to buy the converters- they are not carried in basic stores (or Radio Shack- the guy there didn't even know what I was talking about).

Performs as expected
Holds a lot of batteries and charges them quickly. I've tried a number of different types of rechargeable batteries including eneloops and it works great. The box is bigger and heavier than it looks on the picture, but that was a positive surprise.