Battery prices

With the high price of rechargable batteries and batteries in general I thought would a charger work on suggested non rechargeable batteries. I have an energiser charger and a two year old grand daughter who loves a small flashlight we got for her. I put regular old batteries in this charger and have been doing this for a couple years now and each one of them charges with no damage yet to the charger. I know its not suggested to do so and they may leak and distroy the charger but I thought for the price of the batteries verses the charger Id just get a new charger for about $8 to $10, which this initially cost me. Doing this for a couple years and no damage to the charger or batteries I know I’ve come out ahead. Anybody else do this to get around the high price of batteries?

So you’er putting non-rechargable alkaline batteries in a battery charger? Doesn’t sound like it would work.

I’m interested to hear on this one.

From my understanding you can charge alkaline batteries but you need to get a “alkaline” charger. It is dangerous to charge alkaline batteries with a NiCad charger. I think the batteries themselves can actually explode. Not 100% but just my 2 cents.

Speaking of batteries, make sure they are good in your smoke detector first.

Here is a link to all you need to know about charging alkaline batteries. Hope this helps……. http://www.allaboutbatteries.com/Alkaline-charging.html

For safetys sake Im not encourageing anyone to do this. I’ve been charging alkaline batteries in this charger for around 2 years. I was useing it to charge rechargables and those come up missing here and there. So I tried the regular alkalines and they charged. I kept a close watch on what was happening in the charger, wheather they were over heating etc. Nothing bad seemed to be happening the first few days and then when the light went off I thought maybe it was working. I have an alkaline battery charger and used to have the alkaline batteries that came with it for my electric socks but the batteries came up missing too. I called the Rayovac company in Madison Wisc. and gave them the model number hopeing to buy new rechargeable akaline batteries for this charger and they said they no longer make those batteries and sorry for the inconvience. I’ve told other people about this and they asked do they explode or that they may leak and distroy the charger, so far my lucks been pretty good, infact they always charge fully and the chargeing light goes off when thier done. I’ve been chargeing the same 4 AA batteries and reuseing them for over a year. I know it sounds dangerous and maybe a little borderline but it works for me. I was curious if anybody else does this and what thier results were.

According to the link I put up it is ok to charge alkaline batteries with the proper charger. Hey….whatever works for you

I didn’t know alkaline batteries, the kind you buy off the shelf could be recharged. I thought they were one time only. I thought only rechargeables could be recharged. I recharge both kinds in my charger, I probably picked a charger that does both and didn’t notice it, got lucky I guess.