Of course, the battery-lovers have seen physically in many ways right. Batteries can cultivate and maintain they are, it could be that they hold one to two years longer than if they would not care. Earlier, when batteries were still really expensive, maintenance was also very important, although NiCd batteries were probably the most robust in its class. Today batteries have become much cheaper due to the mass, which is also true for the Chargers to.
The Eneloop batteries are robust energy storage which can hold their charge for about a year. Are they empty, you load them up again. Thus they are also good for consumers that require little energy, such as watches or alarm clocks. At 500 charge cycles and neglect of aging chemicals could they pass on the third generation, because they would have to hold virtually 500 years. They sure do not and that's not even important. But the low discharge is already a factor that you can maintain easily. Because if they are outsourced and know that they only be used after a few months, you can absolutely rely on them. Clearly, the full load of you have not, but (not measured it) enough to use them. Feels like they keep as long, as if they were just taken fresh from the charger. They are therefore suitable for almost all applications, but not for cordless phones. Here, the charge-discharge process is so common that the quasi-Eneloop advantage would not be worth here and you can rely on rather favorable batteries here.
The appended hereto XX batteries have a much higher capacity, such as cameras, could pay off in a slightly longer term particularly for high power devices. It is in contrast to many "up-to" realistic -indications why these values are already over the 2A, which is famous for the traditional Eneloops ago. Who here the juice is not enough place in the XX variant a little more.
It would be enough to recharge the batteries with a timed charger. The overcharge harm the batteries practically less than many computer thinks, because the damage would be felt only after a long time. Nevertheless, there is nothing against an electronically controlled charger checks the batteries and they monitored during charging. This can this charger, though without interaction with the user. This is certainly the best option for 90% of users: inserting wait until the LED goes out, remove the batteries. Exactly, this charger and helps to treat some caretaking. However, contrast arises the quite high charge current and the quick charge, because without the appropriate monitoring mechanisms could be a time-controlled fast charging really damage the battery. Therefore, the normal time-controlled chargers are also not equipped with surveillance sensors as has this one.
It is doubtful whether the rapid charging would damage the battery so that it is likely to pay for the purchase of a several hundred-euro charger at all. In most cases it does not, because the batteries are more expensive, but cheaper than if they were batteries for the same energy output. I can therefore only advise to buy Eneloop.
Energy conservation is not always the same, so there are other methods such as Panasonic Infinium and yet another, according to a while ago in the c't test emerging labels the other manufacturers, however, Infinium and Co whose Wkrungsgrad but well below the the Eneloops is. Thus, Sanyo has here probably the only one battery system with real energy conservation, which also works in the long term. Read cleverness is advisable in any case.