Firstly we should recognise that the Pale Blue battery is an electronics assembly of a power pack (the chemistry part = Lithium Ion or Polymer) and secondly the Electronics part (PCBA with a power regulator and safety management circuit). I think the question relates to ‘self-discharge’, which is how long the battery would last without being connected, just with internal consumption. How long from a charge until these have discharged half their life without being used? Is this known? How does that compare with traditional? Now, if I want to recharge four at a shot I might want to have their 4-pronged recharge cable in tow, but it’s cool.Ĭharging time for a AA is a little under two hours from dead, as long as you’ve got a two amp charger you can charge four at a time in that timeframe.
What’s better is I can recharge things like flashlights wherever I’m at now. My experience with the Green ones (different company,) that I didn’t bother to write about two years ago and what I’m guessing is a faulty 14500 that came with the very expensive flashlight have me distrusting this style, but so far at least there’ve been no issues. I’ve had my doubts about this type of battery. There are also no chargers to buy (although you are expected to have a USB-A standard charger, which we all do these days,) and you can recharge with any Micro USB cable, or use the 4-headed Micro USB cable they include with any standard USB socket to charge four at a time. That puts the Pale Blue at about 11.7 times the cost of initial purchase, but factor in the recharging and you would be seeing about $640 vs $11.7 over the estimated life of the product. The current cost of a single Pale Blue AA is expected to be about $7.50 with charging hydra dongle included. The current cost of the Duracell, best price is $0.64 a battery that I can locate. I’m going to compare a 4 pack of AA sized Pale Blue to a pack of Duracell here because that’s what I’ve got. A micro-USB rechargeable lithium polymer battery that can be reused an estimated 1000 times before it degrades significantly. Pale Blue now has an offering that while not a new product, seem to be (so far,) as advertised. The concept was novel, the execution was not particularly noteworthy as performance was not what I’d expect for in something trying to replace conventional alkaline. The original review follows… don’t… while every product has a bad batch occasionally, it was entirely the customer support and lack thereof that lead me to say skip them.Ī couple of years ago I was introduced to my first recharge-via-USB AA battery. My experience with their customer support involved being dropped multiple times, and evidence of this level of support was on most of their Facebook advertising from irate customers for the past couple of years. Make no mistake, based on my experience with them at $30 you’re going to get 4 batteries that will not hold a charge and will undervolt.
#Aaa rechargeable batteries review 2011 update#
Updated 3-month in review: skip ’em – update at 11 months: can’t even leave a bad review on Amazon. Claims by the manufacturer are one battery will save up to 1000 conventional batteries per unit and thus far in testing I have not had reason to doubt. Pale Blue is a battery/project on Kickstarter that is a recharge-via-USB AA-Sized and AAA-sized LiPo battery.
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