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I think my Technoline BL-700 (La Crosse BC-700) charger has developed a fault, but I wonder if any charger experts have any thoughts on whether I'm right. (It is 10 years old.)
I have a few dozen LSD AA batteries for various uses, but the biggest consumer of them is a digital radio that I use in the bathroom. Recently, they seem to be lasting only a few days in the radio, whereas they used to last a week or two. I have this problem with several different sets of batteries, so I don't think the cause is likely to be that the batteries are faulty (or worn out). The battery sets are of various ages, so they they would be unlikely to develop the same fault at the same time.
The latest set seemed to last a bit longer: perhaps a week. But they stopped working this morning, so I put them on to charge (at 200mA). Within an hour, one of them was displaying FULL, which seemed too quick to have replenished a week's worth of use in the radio. On a hunch, I took it out and put it back in. It resumed charging (at 200mA). A few minutes later, another did exactly the same thing. Both are now still charging at 200mA, 7 hours after the charger told me they were full. (They are nice and cool, by the way.)
Does that sound like my charger is faulty? If the charger has been stopping charging way too early, this would explain why the batteries have been running out far too quickly. It could be the batteries, but, as I say, I've been having problems with several different sets of batteries.
I have a few dozen LSD AA batteries for various uses, but the biggest consumer of them is a digital radio that I use in the bathroom. Recently, they seem to be lasting only a few days in the radio, whereas they used to last a week or two. I have this problem with several different sets of batteries, so I don't think the cause is likely to be that the batteries are faulty (or worn out). The battery sets are of various ages, so they they would be unlikely to develop the same fault at the same time.
The latest set seemed to last a bit longer: perhaps a week. But they stopped working this morning, so I put them on to charge (at 200mA). Within an hour, one of them was displaying FULL, which seemed too quick to have replenished a week's worth of use in the radio. On a hunch, I took it out and put it back in. It resumed charging (at 200mA). A few minutes later, another did exactly the same thing. Both are now still charging at 200mA, 7 hours after the charger told me they were full. (They are nice and cool, by the way.)
Does that sound like my charger is faulty? If the charger has been stopping charging way too early, this would explain why the batteries have been running out far too quickly. It could be the batteries, but, as I say, I've been having problems with several different sets of batteries.