On Sep 5, 3:08*pm, misterroy wrote:
Both are fameart, one older than the other, I threw out a third charge
I had all were £10 or so. The new frame art came with 4 batteries and
it can seem to charge them up. I'm putting same batteries in to get
charged at he same time, I'm just not getting charge into the atteies,
apart from one set of 4 eneloop ones which are great no matter which
charger I put them in. Its mainly my radio and kids toys, but the use
is not high, apart from the radio which always get the good batteries.
ome of the frameart bartteries hardly seemed to take a dcent charge at
the first one.
What am I doing wrong, I am on the point of buying a big box of non-
rechargables and trashing the rest.
ta

Frameart are probably some cheap chinese stuff without quality as you
see, Sanyo make eneloop and have always been high quality commercial
grade. Sanyo makes less expensive cells which are great, Panasonic,
Energiser, Duracell are good brands. Buy quality like the sanyos you
have. I would check each cell with a volt meter to see if any are dead
or have reversed polarity from over discharge. the kids are probably
running them dead until the toys dont run, this kills Nicads, nicads
are fully discharged at a high voltage , just under 1.2v a cell. in a
drill its when the tool slows, draining them all the way easily can
reverse a cells polaity, so maybe its the way the kids are using them