I bought a bunch of eneloop pro, but using them in connected thermostats is always displaying “low battery” even after just fully charged. This is when I discovered that they are actually 1.2V
It really came as a surprise, is there a catch? Are they only good for low power stuff like remote controls?
Edit: it seems they do exist in lithium. Question remains why are the NiMH only 1.2v and why are they the most widespread?
I gave up on them as well. They’d always be dead after sitting in a drawer and a lot of devices I use AA or AAA batteries in don’t like the lower voltage. The devices complain about the batteries being low and I could never tell if they were dead from lying around for too long or if the device thought they were dead just because of the low voltage.
yeah when things did not come with their own rechargable integrated battery it was a thing but the few I use at this point it just does not make sense to use rechargables.
“I don’t use enough rechargeables that it’s okay use ephemeral junk cells”? Really?
For me it’s the opposite.
I pretty much only use batteries for my wireless mouse and my Xbox controller. When the batteries die I just recharge them and put them back a few hours later.
I feel like the only batteries I use are for the firealarm and remotes. Oh then I have oddball things with watch type batteries but as far as I know their are no rechargable equivalents.