All well and good, but there are from time to time applications in which offer the normal Eneloops with a capacity of 1900-2000mAh certainly room for improvement. This is particularly a common working heating adjusting motor, a wireless keyboard and a wireless mouse with me. Furthermore, I still have a good old Canon digital camera of the first hour, which still can be feed with 2xAA. All application areas, where high self-discharge even is not desirable, but it still comes primarily cover a constant consumption as long as possible.
Here the Eneloop Pro come into play the perfect fill this gap, in my opinion. The self-discharge rate is a bit higher than the normal Eneloop batteries, but also in an almost insignificant amount, at least if you do not plan these batteries to place 3 years in a closet and unprepared to take a trip with his digital camera.
Also the number of advertised charging cycles is significantly reduced. But we are still talking of about 500 charge cycles, which in everyday life still likely meet a number of years. 2000 cycles and more have for me almost more marketing character as a real practical use. In 10-15 years the world looks battery but again probably quite different.
Panasonic advertises that these batteries after a year still have up to 85% energy charge. This will unfortunately never be ascertained with me, because I store these batteries seltenst longer than 2 months. Furthermore, Panasonic promises a capacity of 2450mAh and thus almost 25% more than normal Eneloops.
For me, it has continuously confirmed this. Using Break-In method threw all battery times in my MH-C9000 charger and have a voltage between 1,44-1,46V measured for all batteries and a capacity of 2495-2599mAh what the specifications surpasses and also a very small series dispersion proves. Similar positive effects I have achieved in the normal Eneloops, here in some cases even more than advertised 100mAh capacity minimum.
I am highly satisfied with the batteries and if they show no failures it is retained even when the full score. Priced normal Eneloops but are attractive and are also more robust and durable, at least on paper. To what extent this is important, everyone should decide for themselves, because 2000mAh are for normal use and usually quite sufficient. And unlike the battery one can easily back full loading.
But by me yet strong buy recommendation for those who have already identified their little power-hungry applications.
