Turnigy Low Self-Discharge (LSD) NiMH AA's

Originally Posted by BrianG

.....I've been doing some searching for LSD NiMH around in the US and the cheapest I've seen is for Sanyo's Eneloops at around $12 for 4 (shipping included). That's $3 per cell.

You can find them on Thomas Distributing for about $10 for 4 - Sanyos or Mahas and some lesser known others. But S&H is almost another $7......no deal there. Thomas sticks you for S&H.

The price per cell shipped drops to $3/cell somewhere between 16 and 20 cells and continues to fall the more you buy. I was looking at the Maha Imedions, they didn't have any AA Sanyos. For 80cells it was $2.57/cell shipped.

A big factor that the HC LSDs have, at least to me - they seem to be proven. The Ansmanns, Nexcells, Imedions, Lexmars LSDs are not a known performer but they might well be just as good. Last time I bought a batch of Maha Powerex AAs, they were listed as 2700s and mine were never more than 2500 and change - felt cheated just a little, they were obviously overrated. Don't want that to happen with these. HC LSDs look like they are underrated if anything.

[rchippie]

Originally Posted by BrianG

Ugg. Is there anyplace in the USA that carries these type of cells at a comparable price to HobbyCity? With all the devices (toys, camera, remote controls, etc) in my house, I want to switch over to these cells but shpping costs for 20 cells is almost the same price as the cost of the cells! It would be sort of ok if I was planning on buying other stuff, but I'm not.

My LHS does carry them, but at 2 something each. After shipping, that's a decent price if getting a few, but any more than that, it gets expensive. We should do a group buy. I'm in for 30 cells. Any others interested? I will work out the details if so.

YGPM about these cells.

[BrianG]

Answered your PM hippie...

[rchippie]

Originally Posted by BrianG

Answered your PM hippie...

Your covered .

[skellyo]

Guys, I have some of these on the way. I made a decent sized order, so the cells are $1.85ea. I should have somewhere around 60 of them available. If you want any, let me know.

[rchippie]

List copy & past so sean can get alist going.

#1 hippie 20 cells
#2 brian g 30 cells

[skellyo]

Originally Posted by rchippie

List copy & past so sean can get alist going.

#1 hippie 20 cells
#2 brian g 30 cells

This leaves 70 cells available.

[JERRY2KONE]

you got a PM

With three kids in the house and plus my hobby stuff we use allot of AA & AAA batteries here at the Hill house. We have a box full of the energizer rechargables here already. So why not try these suckers out and see how they stock up against teh bunny's batteries.

[rchippie]

Originally Posted by JERRY2KONE

you got a PM

With three kids in the house and plus my hobby stuff we use allot of AA & AAA batteries here at the Hill house. We have a box full of the energizer rechargables here already. So why not try these suckers out and see how they stock up against teh bunny's batteries.

Jerry copy & past the list with the number of cells your interested in. So we can keep track of how many are left .

[JERRY2KONE]

#1 hippie 20 cells
#2 brian g 30 cells
#3 JERRY 30 CELLS

[BrianG]

Hey Jerry, that's a killer avatar you have there.

[JERRY2KONE]

Originally Posted by BrianG

Hey Jerry, that's a killer avatar you have there.

Sorry BG don't know how to do all of that. I try not to get too deep into the geek areas myself. It took a while just for me to get up the thinking just to put pics on here. Avatar?? How in the hell do you do that? Isn't that the new movie just released. Great Movie.

[BrianG]

Find an image you want on the net or wherever, and save it to your desktop. Make sure it's like 100x100 pixels wide/tall (or less) and less than 100kbytes in size. Then, go to your control panel, then the avatar link, then browse your computer for the file. Voila!

[JERRY2KONE]

This is a photo of the wife and I on teh Great Wall of China when we were here in Korea back in 2005.

[BrianG]

lol, that works. See? That wasn't so hard...