Maha PowerEx MH-C808M Ultimate Professional Charger – Battery charger 8xAA/AAA/C/D
Maha PowerEx MH-C808M Ultimate Professional Charger – Battery charger 8xAA/AAA/C/D
Maha PowerEx MH-C808M Ultimate Professional Charger – Battery charger 8xAA/AAA/C/D Reviews
This battery charger is a winner. Batteries stays cool (a good thing) fast & slow rates of charge. No overcharging, it seems to FULLY CHARGE the big C & D sizes rather quickly, about 5 or 6 hours. Each battery size has it’s own charging points, fixed contacts no springs sliding a metal bar against the battery, less stuff to wear out & break. You can charge AA ,AAA, C & D sizes but not 9 volt. about the only down side to this product. According to sales lit. with proper power cords you can charge around the world. Maha also makes wonderful rechargeable batteries have been using AA, AAA & D sizes for 6 months no problems so far. Mine cost about $ 90 twice what other cheaper crappier chargers go for(some cheapies don’t charge big sized/highly rated mAh batteries fully) Thomas Distribution seems to be the cheapest & very reliable vendor.
This is no doubt a nice charger, but I have found it to have a couple of very minor faults. First, it doesn’t handle 9V batteries. Not a big deal but if you want 9V you would have to buy yet another charger for them. Also, I have had very mixed results trying to charge old NiCd batteries. Sometimes the charger will not recognize them at all, and other times it will recognize them but not charge and give a “high voltage” error (flashes the word “done”). The manual doesn’t really explain what this error means exactly. I was able to take these very same NiCd batteries and charge them successfully on an Ansmann Energy 8 charger that I also have. I also had the same thing happen with an old NiMH battery (the Maha wouldn’t recognize it, but the Ansmann did and was able to charge it). I’ve had great results charging brand new NiMH batteries though. A plus of this charger is that it is faster than some other models, however I turn off the fast charging mode (which requires you to press a button each time you go to charge anything, otherwise it defaults to fast mode automatically). Another plus is that it has a manual refresh process so you don’t have to run a refresh on a battery unless you want to. But… overall, I’d say the Ansmann Energy 8 would be a better alternative (especially if you want to charge 9V batteries, plus have the reliability of reviving older NiCd or NiMH batteries).
Well worth the price. I have a some AAA’s that would no longer charge in my cheap 1-hour charger. After using the Conditioning function of the MH-C808M, they are working great again. This unit has 3 modes of operation: 1-hour Quick Charge, 2-hour Soft Charge, and the many-hour Conditioning mode which gradually charges, discharges, then charges batteries. This product works as advertised. Highly recommended if you want to get the most out of your rechargeables.
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