Ansmann Energy 8 Charger Reviews

Average Customer Rating - 4.7 out of 5 stars

20 customer reviews

Charger is GREAT!, August 25, 2008
I had old recargable battery I had not used within years and several were not usable. This unit brought over partially of them back to full use with on a couple of chargin cycles. Great Product!

Versatile charger take up little space and even looks good, May 28, 2007
I've had the Ansmann Energy 8 charger for something like 1 year now and it has be excellent. Batteries charge at a good clip, the charger tells you their exact state, and (most important) it let you charge a variety of different battery types at once.

It doesn't thieve up much space and even looks pretty good (well, for a battery charger anyway). I notably recommend this -- and in fact 2 of my friends own bought them over the past year and have have similarly excellent experiences. Don't be fooled by the lousy $20 chargers you can by from major battery manufacturer. Those things are cheap and of course don't do well (why should they -- the freestyle folks want to sell you more batteries, not a smaller amount!). This charger is expensive for a reason. It actually works.

A great charger for a sensible price, March 21, 2010
If you're like me you're tired of buying and throwing away alkaline batteries every month or so for the electronic items you use greatly, like your bluetooth keyboard and mouse. Unfortunately, until lately, rechargeable batteries and chargers have fall short of being worth the extra hassle and expense. NiCad batteries don't tend to hold their charge unbelievably long, and in general the amount of "juice" you bring out of a rechargeable, even one of the new nickel metal hydride batteries, is smaller number than an alkaline. If you do your homework, though, and spend a little more on your batteries (find a pious brand, like Ansmann 5035092 AA of 2850mAh Rechargeable Batteries (4-Pack) and the charger, you'll get almost as much out of your rechargeables as your alkalines. And contained by the long run you'll save money and reduce you're impact on the environment. This charger is the king of rechargers. Made within Germany, it requires almost no intructions. It analyzes, recharges, and maintains your battery while they are in it. LEDs make it clear what the device is doing at adjectives times. Each battery is analyzed and charged individually, so you can have different types, brands, sizes, etc. charging adjectives at once. I highly recommend it. Downsides? It's more expensive than most chargers, and it doesn't charge batteries as with alacrity as I would like (my dead AAs took going on for 8 hours to charge).

Initial impressions and Ansmann's USA website info, June 10, 2009
This review is for the Ansmann Energy 8 (part number 5407022) charger. I just started using it, so more info will follow... but I wanted to share Ansmann's USA website, contained by case you were have trouble with their German one. Its: [...]

On that website, you can find a list of resellers within your area. If you have question about the products, ask the resellers, or use the live chat feature on the Ansmann USA website. I found them to be drastically helpful.

Note that Ansmann also sells an Energy 8 "Plus" charger and an Energy 8 "Professional" charger. According to their representatives, the "Plus" charger (not available currently on Amazon) have the very same functions as the "regular" Energy 8, but has a more streamlined body and "updated" LED displays. However, the charging and refreshing functions are impossible to tell apart.

The "Professional" series is a 19" rack-mountable device, despite the photos that the German website shows. If you look at the US website, it shows the 19" rack-mountable design. The "Professional" series isn't available in the US yet (according to their reps) because of some rights issues with the battery carrying out tests function that the professional series touts.

The Best Battery Charger, January 29, 2010
After my brand new La Crosse Technology BC-9009 AlphaPower Battery Charger melted on its first use (yes, buttons literally melt into the unit), I returned it to Amazon and used the refund to buy this instead. I really wish this charger have been suggested to me in the first place, after I wouldn't have wasted my time next to the LaCrosse product.

This thing works flawlessly. I don't have to gamble away my time entering obscure commands, I newly put a battery in it and it does its article. If the battery needs refreshing, the component refreshes it. If it doesn't, it charges it as fast as is undisruptive for the battery. Once fully charged, it switches to trickle charging to keep the battery-operated ready for when you actually stipulation it. It tells me the battery's remaining capacity, charges promptly, and has even revived some old battery that my Energizer 15-minute charger had reported as faulty. All of this is displayed using simple LED lights that flash within different colours to give me quick and accurate feedback on what's scheduled. No fancy LCD display, no crazy programming features, it "just works". And best of all, this product doesn't have a history of melt or catching on fire.

The only problem is that this product is buried low in Amazon's product listing if you basically search for "battery charger". It almost seems close to Amazon doesn't want you to find it. It's probably the best battery charger available here, but unless you look for it specifically, you probably wouldn't even know it exists.

I'm sick and tired of crap that's Made in China. This Germany-built product is the best mobile charger I've ever seen. Don't waste your time next to the LaCrosse or Maha Powerex stuff. And don't worry about the absence of programmability. This charger does everything it needs to, and it's smart enough to know how best to do it.

Simple Fast and does the career., March 2, 2009
Best thing about this product is that it have no buttons or a screen with complicated code numbers, basically a very simple light code. all the same it does the job perfectly, first it analyze the mobile then it discharge it and then it recharge near overheat protection. I can't imagine anything as simple and effective as this for a ordinary user like me. lots of my batteries come back to life because of it, i thought adjectives charges are the same until i tried this. I don't understand why big companies resembling duracell and Energizer sell cheap chargers with its battery. if there is something to complain about, perchance it is not portable enough with its rounded shape. Five stars for sure =)

Well worth the price, January 29, 2009
I bought this charger after reading rave reviews adjectives over on it. And I have to say that they be all right. I had a bunch of older NiCd batteries that I've had mixed results near on two other chargers (one of which is a Maha, another top of the line brand). This charger recognized and be able to revive batteries that the Maha charger would not. This charger is also intensely fast and extremely easy to use, in recent times place the batteries in and it does the rest automatically. It perform a quick test and after does a refresh process then charges respectively battery independently. You can charge NiCd and/or NiMH at the same time. I notably recommend this charger, it's well constructed and is a fine piece of equipment.

A great simple charger but not perfect, November 4, 2010
I bought this charger along beside a PowerEx MH-C9000 charger expecting to play with them both and pick a winner. Although the Ansmann Energy 8 is more or less as far from the PowerEx as two devices can be, I have to admit that I do resembling them both.

I'm not going to say this is the best charger ever, because it is good for some types of ethnic group and usage, but not all. If you like simplicity afterwards this is the charger for you. Each batter position has a red/green LED and that is the full status you win. Overall, it can display charging, refreshing, done, and bad battery. That's it.

There is without a doubt that this charger generally does a good employment under most conditions, but I take away one star because the info it give you is so limited and because it offers positively no control. Its this 5% of problem conditions that gives me some doubts that this charger is not perfect. Here are two examples.

First a put a PowerGenix NiZn mobile in this charger. These are pretty common and similar to NiMH but beside a higher 1.6v voltage. I put them in my PowerEx charger and they register an error within a few seconds. The Ansmann acts similar to its charging it, but goes through a continuous charge and refreshing cycle which repeats over and over. True the charger never claims to charge these, but its easy to relate these aren't NiMH batteries by their higher voltage, so I quality they should be rejected as bad.

The second questionable problem was what I observed next to several NiMH batteries. This charger displays a red, yellow, or green indication of battery-operated charge for 5 second when a battery is inserted. This indicates under 25% charge, 25-80%, and 100% respectively. This is a nice characteristic, but on many occasions I hold inserted a battery, gotten a yellow street light indicating 25-80%, then, within 30 second to a minute the ready light turns on. How can that be? A somewhat charged battery can not fully charge in a minute. Impossible. I've also see many cases where I've have a charging and fully charged battery next to respectively other, I remove the charged battery and the charging battery suddenly indicates its charged. I've see it occur too many times to beleive its purely a coincidence.

In any case these problems are minor, and in most cases, the charger seem to work great. Of course those cheapie chargers you get with a pack of battery seem to work well as powerfully, but I do expect more from a charger which costs much more. Still if you don't mind spending the bucks, and you want simple, this charger is great and fairly quick. The PowerEx charger is fantastic as powerfully, and if you are willing to spend the time with it you will gain even better results, but you just can't pop in the battery and walk away, and some PowerEx modes can take up to 48 hours to complete, and to be honest, for slightly better results the time may not be worth it.

Oh, any more thing. This is certainly NOT a travel charger. Its fairly large, but it uses a cord and not a wall wart, which is nice. And the users guide could be better. But overall I'm very positive with this charger, and the fact that my wife can use it beside no training, is a big plus.

Excellent Charger, August 27, 2008
I've used this charger for over four years with complete satisfaction. This is a fine piece of German engineering; ably worth the price. I bought it because it can charge any number of any assortment of AA, AAA, C, D, 9V batteries at the same time, and lots of them. You can also insert modern batteries at any time any others are charging. Here's a tip: Since each cell is monitored for charge even, you can leave batteries within the charger, indefinitely. That effectively counters the self-discharge problem older NiMH batteries enjoy, since the batteries stored in this charger are kept at full charge. Of course, you'll want to buy eneloops (SANYO eneloop 4 Pack AA NiMH Pre-Charged Rechargeable Batteries, which I've used) or Ansmann Max E's (Ansman Max-E AA NiMh 2100 Mah LD, Ultra Low Discharge Batteries, Pack of 4, which I haven't used), next to long shelf lives, from here on-out. This charger works fine with them, too. I'd like to see Ansmann provide some-sort of wall-mounting tab or screw holes in this charger. I had to epoxy-on my own. Maybe they already enjoy, it's been four years!

Wonderful Product!, January 26, 2010
This charger is known to be the world most powerful and credit charger.
Its very expensive but worth every single penny. Every rechargeable batteries of different brand (Sanyo NiMH, GP NiCd) that I hold works fine with it.

At first I had one the GP freestyle couldn't be charged up by my previous charger but Ansmann is powerful enough to bring this "dead" GP battery stern to life and kicking

Its comes with dual voltage(110-240V) operation which vehicle you can bring this charger to any part of the world and it still work fine, useful for citizens that travels a lot....My previous charger can only work on 230V, I can't use it on countries running on 110V!!

Great Product!

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