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(More customer reviews)I bought this Charger mainly because of the low price and the very high capacity batteries, of which it comes with 4.
Synergy Digital-Quick Charger with Four Ultra High Power 2800 MaH AA Batteries
After placing the batteries into the charger and plugging it in, It became apparent that the word 'quick' in Quick Charger was figurative. The batteries that came with the charger took over 8 hours to charge...that led to the discovery of another feature flaw: the two color LED charge indicator. Other chargers have an indicator that changes abruptly: Red for charging, Green for charged. Some even blink the lights rapidly if the charger detects something wrong with a battery. Not so with this charger. On this charger, the LED changes GRADUALLY from red to green. And because the cheap LED has to light emitters in the same bulb, what color you can see depends on what angle you are viewing the charger from. So you have to wait until the entire LED is green to tell that the batteries are fully charged, and when I charged a second set of the same batteries (Brand, size and mAh rating were identical to the ones that came with the charger) it took nearly 12 hours.
All in all, the charger DOES work, The batteries DO last a LONG TIME (my Fuji Finepix S1500 takes four batteries, and I shot for 3 days on one set) But the charger is ANYTHING BUT quick. It should be labeled an overnight charger, because it certainly takes that long.
Buy if you want long lasting batteries, but don't expect to charge the batteries and then go on a photo shoot the same day. Charge the day before.
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