Product Reviews for Rayovac I-C3 15 Minute Rechargeable Batteries, AA , 4 batteries

Rayovac I-C3 15 Minute Rechargeable Batteries, AA , 4 batteries

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Product Reviews of Rayovac I-C3 15 Minute Rechargeable Batteries, AA , 4 batteries

Product Review: True to description
Summary: 4 Stars

These are awesome (albeit expensive) rechargeables that I decided to get b/c of their amazingly short charge time (15minutes). What more can you say about batteries except that they are exactly what they are advertised to be. Get them if you want recharageables that can be completely drained, recharged, and ready to go in your equipment again in an extremely short amount of time! 4 stars only b/c of the price...wish they'd be cheper.

Product Review: Works great for Wii remote
Summary: 5 Stars

Its works great for my Wii remote. Need 15 min charger for this.... or else it might take longer to charge.

Product Review: Works really Great!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars

I bought these batteries because i am a photographer and do a lot of weddings and need my camera to always be working. I love these batteries cause they charge quickly and compared to other batteries I have used they stay charged a long time.

Product Review: Yes, the best.
Summary: 5 Stars

All the rave reviews are not wrong. I hated rechargeable batteries, until I tried these.

Some other brands take long time and their directions say to watch carefully while charging in order to intervene if overheating causes a dangerous situation. It's easy to forget to stop watching during several hours, but not 15 minutes.

There are other brands of 15 minute cells and chargers; but unless they are IC-3 they do not function the same.

I used a flashlight regularly a couple of years on the same IC-3 batteries, they worked as new. I also use in a GPS and some short wave portable radios.

The smart charing system first takes a few seconds to determine how much the cells are discharged, and then it closes down to whatever amperage is needed to bring to full charge in exactly fifteen minutes. So, its always fifteen minutes (except in unusual cases).

Unusual case: If there is a problem, such as a battery completely discharged, it goes into an ultra safe slow mode, which it will also do automatically if you are charging cells of another chemistry (non IC3):i.e. another type of nickel-metal hydride or even nickel-cadmium. Other than that, its fifteen minutes every time!

It will not charge any type of alkaline including RAM cells.

There are two banks of two each in the four cell charger that plugs with a cord into the wall socket (model PS6 charger). I can put say two AAA on the left and two AA on the right, or one AA and one AAA in each bank, or just one AA or AAA in the charger. It works fine.

When the lights goes off the charging is done (a very tiny trickle keeps going), one light for each of the two banks.

If one cell out of all you put in the charger is faulty (e.g. completely discharged), the cells in the other bank will charge in 15 minutes and the bank with the faulty cell will go into a slow charge and take a much longer time, but if it is possible the charger will still fully charge it eventually, and then the light will go off. So that is almost failsafe, and will thus sometimes repair damaged cells.

I agree that the high price of the cells has taken theIC-3 system off the market. As for performance and realizability, they were at least better than most others for sure.