Who does not know the Eneloop and still uses normal NiMH, one can already do almost sorry ...

The Eneloop batteries you get on Amazon for other providers up to 20% cheaper, easy to "BK-3MCCE" or looking for "8-Eneloop AA". Best Price seen so far from Amazon was 16.99 Euro plus shipping for 8 Pack.

Advantage of the new LSD (Low Self Discharge batteries) as compared to the obsolete NiMH batteries:
- Very low self-discharge
- Hold the tension for a long time constant, resulting in longer operating times than with NiMH rechargeable battery or alkaline battery
- Operate down to -20 ° C, where ordinary alkaline batteries NiMH batteries usually fail
- Are all normal NiMH battery with more "mAh" vastly superior

Comparison between the new Ready Tourtouse / LowSelfDischarge batteries and the outdated conventional AA NiMH batteries is about as like comparing an old E27 bulb with 100Watt and an LED / energy saving lamp with only 15-25Watt that much less for the same light output for greater effectiveness energy consumed. A larger number on the package (Watt or mAh) is thus not always better.

The latest 4th generation Eneloop Panasonic only has a self discharge of 10% the first year and after 5 years are still 70% left. At comparable GP ReCyko + is 20% in the first year. The Eneloop can be recharged up to 2,100 times, the GP ReCyko + 1000 times.

The outdated NiMH batteries without LSD, however have a very high self-discharge. One day after the full charge lose that 10-20% of its load. After further month storage, the NiMH batteries lose again to 20% to 50% charge. And each additional month it halved in extreme cases further. After several months of storage as a battery is usually almost completely empty. Although there 2.700mAh is it, after a short period of storage (1 month) is only less than 1.100mAh it. When battery with LSD with beginning 2.000mAh you after 12 months still 1.800mAh.

I have with the purchase of a used appliance accidental nor 4x 2.000mAh Eneloops first generation get (HR 3UTG still without crown), which are already about 8 years old. A test in the charger (AccuPower IQ-328 and MEC AV4m) has pointed out that this still have 2.010-2.080mAh capacity and (loading multiple and discharged to the full capacity to restore) the previous without refresh. By contrast, my Panasonic NiMH 2.600mAh have (without LSD technology) that are about the same age, was only a maximum 1.560-1.610mAh although previously refreshes about 2 days (before only 1.300mAh).

In conventional NiMH batteries can still often do not use the whole capacity, because the voltage drops rapidly below a critical value. Under 1.1V many units shut down automatically and notify that the battery is empty. Often it is still up to 50% energy remaining in a conventional NiMH battery when a device switches off automatically (depending on the age of the NiMH batteries). Also because the LSD-batteries have an enormous advantage, here the voltage drops below a critical value only when really little more energy in the LSD-battery is left.
This is one of the reasons why LSD batteries hold less capacity much longer than conventional batteries with more capacity (similar to Energizer Advertise with the hare, running and running, when everyone else is already flat).

A personal experience: with fully charged conventional 2.700mAh AA NiMH batteries or new AA alkaline batteries makes my old Kodak ZD710 digital camera just 10-20 photos before the "Battery empty" comes and the camera turns itself off. However, with the 2000mAh Eneloop (LSD) or ReCyko + (LSD) makes this digital camera almost 300 photos all with lightning! Only then comes the "Battery empty".

Amazon has here for their own LSD batteries a nice table in the product description below:

The table can be seen, then with 1900mAh LSD batteries 514 photos with alkaline batteries only 117 photos are possible (with conventional NiMH batteries even less).