10-4. So all Made In Japan are produced in same factory and get the most recently made that you can. I have this right?
In early '12, I revamped all of my NiMH stuff, keeping some NIB quads of Energizer 2300s, which are made in Japan.
I bought a bunch of batteries, from Eneloop Gen. 2s, to AccuPower AA/AAAs, to Sanyo 2700s, to GP ReCyKos and PowerEx Imedions. Duracell Ion Cores and Fujitsus followed a few years later.
The AccuPowers are long gone, the Sanyo 2700s went first and the Ion Cores are all but toast.
My Imedions are still hanging in, my ReCyKos are at 90%, but my Eneloops are still fairly low on the I.R. scale and doing well.
I'm no longer going with HiCaps and I'll stick with Eneloop Standards, or Fujitsu. Right now, Fujitsus are hard to come by. There's a group out of Salt Lake City/Sandy Utah that were importing the Eneloops and then the Fujitsus, but they seem to have moved on.
Again, buy the freshest and buy based on price, but the latter might only be a buck, or two, so unless that busts your electric bill for the month, just pay the piper.
I'm done with buying anything but Eneloops and Fujitsu NiMH batteries, be they AAs, or AAAs and I don't really 'need' the higher capacity cells, since I don't require them in day-to-day life.
We're not talking a lot of money, as being a deterrent.
Chris
