Amazon.com has the LaCrosse Technology BC-900 AlphaPower Battery Charger for $40 with free shipping.
4 AA and 4 AAA rechargeable batteries, heat monitor prevents overcharging
Can charge AA and AAA batteries simultaneously, 4 separate LCD displays
Includes 4 C- and 4 D-size battery adapters and durable travel bagLaCrosse BC-900 AlphaPower Battery Charger
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Great charger. For those looking to pay more, you can increase the value of your purchase buy getting it from shop.com
http://www.shop.com/op/~Lacrosse_Technology_BC_900_Alpha_Battery_Charger_and_Recovery_System-prod-14798534-21355847?sourceid=298
Got it last month for $35 from Amazon.
normal price at AMZ
move along, nothing to see here
Great charger, worth every penny at $50+
anyone's unbiased opinion on those Sanyo Eneloop batteries and charger? For $25 and the claims they make, it sounds quite promising:
http://www.amazon.com/eneloop-Position-Re-Charger-Rechargeable-Batteries/dp/B000IV0REA/sr=8-1/qid=1168571210/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-9048679-7433221?ie=UTF8&s=electronics
This charger has what seems to me to be an essential advantage over any other charger I know of(there could be others by now). It tells you how much charge has been put into the battery. With other peak detection chargers you may get a false peak and the battery my not be charged or it may be a weak battery near failure. If you can't verify that your batteries are full you may miss an important shot with your digital camera. Unfortunately this charger takes 3hours to charge. The 15minute chargers have the advantage that 15 minutes is short enough that you could often afford to wait for batteries to charge if you have no full ones. Even the 30 minute ones are probably too long to wait for usually. Of course you don't really have to fill your cells up to use them. Half way is often good enough.
I have this charger and I am NOT happy with it. Takes way too long to charge, tech support is a joke.
My rev 32 charger decided to overheat a Powerex battery last week, melted some plastic, filled the room with acrid smoke, and needless to say, doesn't work anymore.
I've heard the rev 33 units are more paranoid about temperature detection and will shut down the charge earlier.
I'm waiting for a response from LaCrosse, but if they won't replace my (2 months out of warranty) unit, I plan to buy another one ASAP. It's that revolutionary.
Also, re the Eneloop batteries: http://www.robertphotoblog.com/2006/capacity-eneloop-batteries/
I have this charger and I love it.
I use a 1 hour charger for fast charging.
I use this one to TEST the batteries.
(charge/discharge/refresh/test, ect)
Yes, but does it have an AGP slot?
This charger defaults to a 200 mA charge rate. Read the manual and you will learn how to crank it up to the 1 or 2 hour range.
Have fun charging your batteries in 15 minutes. How many times does that work, 10? The faster one charges the harder it is on the battery.
What I found with a Maha 1 or 2 hour charger was that in not many cycles I would have a set of 4 AA's which did not last very long in my GPS. The Maha which charges each cell individually but if you don't watch it you don't see that one finished early, or very late.
With this charger the numeric display tells me that a cell didn't take much charge compared to its mates which were kept together since new.
Price is back down to $35 on Amazon.
The Maha MH-C9000 charger discussed at http://candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?t=140144 and sold at http://thomasdistributing.com/maha-mh-c9000-battery-charger.php will finally give La Crosse some competition.