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At first I bought a large quantity of batteries from All-Battery.com, and was happy. After several months, I’m no longer satisfied. I bought the 2600mAh cells, in various sizes from AAA-D, and initially, they seemed to work ok. Some of them still do. However, most of the batteries now do not hold much of a charge.

I’ve seen reviewers mention that the batteries do not seem to hold as much of a terminal voltage after charging as compared to others. I find this to be the case. They seem to drop in voltage output rather quickly, which makes it difficult to use them in sensitive devices that are looking for alkaline voltages.

What I’ve ended up doing is using a voltmeter, and trying to match batteries and charge them all together as a set. That has helped some. I’ve also purchased some Sanyo Eneloop batteries, and will be putting them in my more sensitive applications. If the Eneloops work past several recharges, I’ll probably buy more of them.

So I’m out quite a bit of money on these. I guess you get what you pay for. I’ll still use them for non-critical applications, and maybe I just got a bad lot, but things just didn’t work out for me.