Lights that take three batteries for ****'s sake!

Herbsman
Herbsman Posts: 2,029
edited November 2012 in The cake stop
How are you supposed to ****ing charge f***ing three f***ing batteries when a ****ing battery charger will only charge two or four ***ing batteries, and anyway batteries come in sets of four?!?!?! Is this a con to force you to buy two lights and two chargers? Even if you buy eight batteries it's still a pain in the arse, swapping batteries around and losing track of which ones are charged and which ones are discharged...

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  • graham.
    graham. Posts: 862
    Herbsman wrote:
    How are you supposed to ****ing charge f***ing three f***ing batteries when a ****ing battery charger will only charge two or four ***ing batteries, and anyway batteries come in sets of four?!?!?! Is this a con to force you to buy two lights and two chargers? Even if you buy eight batteries it's still a pain in the ars*, swapping batteries around and losing track of which ones are charged and which ones are discharged...

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  • Dog Breath
    Dog Breath Posts: 314
    This deserves to be in the Rants section. A worthy inclusion.
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  • Peddle Up!
    Peddle Up! Posts: 2,040
    The dead and poisonous hand of marketing at work I guess. :roll:
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  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    My battery charger happily charges 3 ? Should it not do this ?
  • beverick
    beverick Posts: 3,461
    cougie wrote:
    My battery charger happily charges 3 ? Should it not do this ?

    Ditto...
  • beverick
    beverick Posts: 3,461
    cougie wrote:
    My battery charger happily charges 3 ? Should it not do this ?

    Ditto...
  • Akirasho
    Akirasho Posts: 1,892
    ... in the US at least, hot dogs usually come 8 to a package whereas buns come 6!!!
  • Herbsman
    Herbsman Posts: 2,029
    cougie wrote:
    My battery charger happily charges 3 ? Should it not do this ?
    what charger is it?

    I know more expensive chargers can charge batteries individually, but every one I've had will only do them in pairs.
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  • alihisgreat
    alihisgreat Posts: 3,872
    I blame wiggle
  • MaxwellBygraves
    MaxwellBygraves Posts: 1,353
    beverick wrote:
    cougie wrote:
    My battery charger happily charges 3 ? Should it not do this ?

    Ditto...

    Yup mine does 1 or 3 as well...
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  • robpow
    robpow Posts: 10
    I've got this one, works a treat for one, two, three or four AA or AAA batteries. Also like the discharge function so if you have a mixed bag of batteries of various charge you can still bung them all in at the same time:
    http://www.maplin.co.uk/1-hour-fast-battery-charger-with-lcd-display-105064

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  • Herbsman
    Herbsman Posts: 2,029
    Looks good but annoyingly I will have to throw away or sell the 3 or 4 battery chargers I own :-/
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  • cyclopath
    cyclopath Posts: 71
    Akirasho wrote:
    ... in the US at least, hot dogs usually come 8 to a package whereas buns come 6!!!

    Now that is to allow you to have 3 dogs in your last bun. :lol:
  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    I should be getting paid for posting this: http://www.batterylogic.co.uk/technolin ... -BL700.asp

    Best charger for the money you can buy. Do not buy the fast chargers - they just pump as many amps into the battery as they can stand (which is why they get so damned hot) and it kills them. Get one of the bl-700s and you'll save a fortune in the long run.
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  • Giraffoto
    Giraffoto Posts: 2,078
    Herbsman wrote:
    cougie wrote:
    My battery charger happily charges 3 ? Should it not do this ?
    what charger is it?.

    Both my Ansmann and Sanyo chargers will do this
    Akirasho wrote:
    ... in the US at least, hot dogs usually come 8 to a package whereas buns come 6!!!
    Good God man, can't you do maths? Just eat 24 hot dogs at a time, is that so difficult?
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  • Headhuunter
    Headhuunter Posts: 6,494
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    I should be getting paid for posting this: http://www.batterylogic.co.uk/technolin ... -BL700.asp

    Best charger for the money you can buy. Do not buy the fast chargers - they just pump as many amps into the battery as they can stand (which is why they get so damned hot) and it kills them. Get one of the bl-700s and you'll save a fortune in the long run.

    Yep that's what I've got... Or the other answer is, don't buy a light which takes 3 batts if it's causing you stress!
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  • Daz555
    Daz555 Posts: 3,976
    cougie wrote:
    My battery charger happily charges 3 ? Should it not do this ?
    +1.
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  • ilm_zero7
    ilm_zero7 Posts: 2,213
    3 batteries! christ, think of the weight, get a USB charged light like the Cateye nano shot - smaller lighter and dazzlingly powerful

    batteries, "oh your'e so 1990's"
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  • Bobbinogs
    Bobbinogs Posts: 4,841
    ILM Zero7 wrote:
    3 batteries! christ, think of the weight, get a USB charged light like the Cateye nano shot - smaller lighter and dazzlingly powerful

    If you open most integrated Cateye's (I have the Single Shot Plus) they just have battery units comprising of multiple recharegable AA's taped together.

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