{"id":126,"date":"2010-03-09T08:31:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T15:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.astoriababy.com\/?p=126"},"modified":"2010-03-09T10:17:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T17:17:25","slug":"rechargable-batteries-and-battery-chargers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astoriababy.com\/?p=126","title":{"rendered":"Rechargable Batteries and Battery Chargers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the addition of the battery-powered <a title=\"Fisher-Price Zen Infant Seat\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fisher-price.com\/fp.aspx?st=2014&amp;e=zen-product&amp;pid=43979\" target=\"_blank\">Fisher-Price<\/a> Zen Infant Seat and a <a title=\"Safety 1st\" href=\"http:\/\/www.safety1st.com\" target=\"_blank\">Safety 1st<\/a> (part of the <a title=\"Dorel Juvinile group\" href=\"http:\/\/www.djgusa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dorel Juvenile Group<\/a>) <a title=\"Safety 1st Sound View Baby Monitor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.safety1st.com\/usa\/eng\/Products\/Home-Safety\/Monitors\/Audio\/Details\/1872-08021-Sound-View-Monitor\" target=\"_blank\">Sound View Baby Monitor<\/a> (<a title=\"Safety 1st Sound View Baby Monitor PDF\" href=\"https:\/\/www.astoriababy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Safety1st-SoundViewMonitor.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">PDF<\/a>) the need for rechargable batteries and a decent battery charger became very apparent.<\/p>\n<p>There are a large number of sites that review rechargable batteries, however battery chargers don&#8217;t seem to get the same attention. ConsumerReports.Org is usually the first stop when researching a product, and while they did have current ratings for batteries, their testers didn&#8217;t specify which chargers were used (as of December 2009, the Sanyo Eneloop was the highest rated rechargable).<\/p>\n<p>After a bit of reading, I found that the following items were required in both the charger and batteries:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Batteries must supply 1.5V.<\/strong> Sanyo released two versions of it&#8217;s charger, one that came with the LR03 (1.2V) batteries and a pack that came with the HR03 1.5V batteries. The baby products that we are using require a 1.5V AA battery rating [HR03]. Using 1.2V batteries translates to underpowered devices (reduced &#8220;performance&#8221; and a shorter time between charges).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Charger must be able to charge each cell individually.<\/strong> Some chargers only work with pairs of batteries, instead of being able to charge just 1 battery (or, more commonly three batteries).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After reading a number of reviews, we&#8217;ve started using Sanyo&#8217;s Eneloop line (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.astoriababy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/enebook_e20090402-web.pdf\">PDF<\/a>):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000LNI5VC?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=astoriababy-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B000LNI5VC\">Sanyo Eneloop 8 Pack AA NiMH Pre-Charged Rechargeable Batteries<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=astoriababy-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000LNI5VC\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000IV2YLY?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=astoriababy-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B000IV2YLY\">Sanyo Eneloop AAA NiMH Pre-Charged Rechargeable Batteries (4 Pack)<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=astoriababy-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B000IV2YLY\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/s\/link-enhancer?tag=astoriababy-20&amp;o=1\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/s\/noscript?tag=astoriababy-20\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the addition of the battery-powered Fisher-Price Zen Infant Seat and a Safety 1st (part of the Dorel Juvenile Group) Sound View Baby Monitor (PDF) the need for rechargable batteries and a decent battery charger became very apparent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[60,61,78,62],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baby-gear","tag-batteries","tag-battery","tag-pops-notes","tag-rechargable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astoriababy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astoriababy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astoriababy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astoriababy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astoriababy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.astoriababy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/www.astoriababy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astoriababy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astoriababy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astoriababy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}