New design AmazonBasics high capacity NiMh AA's ?

Just saw it today:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HZV9TGS/?tag=cpf0b6-20

They went from black design to Gray/green colors.
Interesting, cell is same or not?

They are still 2400mAh, and if you scroll down to the expanded verbiage, they still have the black design pictured.

Amazon title says, packaging may vary. I'm guess that means they still have some old stock along with the new packaging. Looks like the cell is the same from the specs, but maybe country of origin changed. One would need to get the cells in hand as the descriptions are not reliable. It's very possible that these are new gen 5 cells since once the factories change I suspect even the rebranded ones change. For marketing reasons they may not quote the higher specs and there is little change anyway.

The eneloop sticky does not seem to be uptodate with Gen 5 cells based on what is showing up on the packages, last I checked there were some discrepancies.

Well, I looked closely, and they still say Made in Japan. The design of the normal-capacity ones has also changed... they are now black while the high-capacity ones are now grey. But they are all still made in Japan, as is stated on the cells themselves. You just have to look at all the pics they have from the cells.

They are out of stock now, anyways...

Chart at the bottom of the Amazon cell page.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon...-49a3-83b6-4931ee46be50.png._CB306323338_.png

Not so good charge retention for a ver 5.

alternety said:

Chart at the bottom of the Amazon cell page.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon...-49a3-83b6-4931ee46be50.png._CB306323338_.png

Not so good charge retention for a ver 5.

Click to expand...

Remember, the Hi-Cap FDK/Eneloops don't have the same SOC retention after X, Y or Z years, that the Standard FDK/Eneloops have. That extra capacity seems to come at a price and that price is in capacity, total cycles and I.R. (internal resistance) buildup over time.

I and others here have said that Hi-Caps do have their place in one's quiver, but there are definitely trade offs, so choose accordingly.

My link above speaks to only Gen. 5 Standard FDK/Eneloops.

Chris

I bought 16 high-capacity AmazonBasics in February of 2015 and used them regularly (about 1 cycle every two weeks) until about 3 weeks ago, when they started dropping like flies with high internal resistance. Towards the end they were only accepting about 1800mAh of charging, too.

2 months before I bought the "Amaloop Pros" I had already purchased and put into service 16 Duracell Ion Core high capacity NiMH (December '14); both of these cells were/are believed to be rebadged Eneloop Pros. All 32 cells ("Duraloop Pros" and "Amaloop Pros") performed identically until the end, with the Duracells going first by about a week. My monitoring and charging was done with Maha C9000's.

I never bought actual Eneloop Pros due to a shift in my financial priorities D), but I would like to believe that actual Eneloop Pros would have lasted much, much longer. As Chris says, different horses for different courses.

Interesting design change. I used to be a fan of these but had since settled on the Pana Eneloops. They seem to last the best over the long term. Almost anything does well the first year...