Their email went straight into my spam folder.
Anyway, how am I supposed to sing praises when they still haven't shipped my sleeves I ordered over a month ago?
Downsize some of your surplus honesty.
I'm not catching your drift.
I don't knot but on old flashlights (bulb one) I've always run them until the battery die and the lamp just faintly glow, never at "50%" and they are honest on their graph, the flashlight without the boost still works when the other is dead
Their email went straight into my spam folder.
Anyway, how am I supposed to sing praises when they still haven't shipped my sleeves I ordered over a month ago?
Downsize some of your surplus honesty.
I'm not catching your drift.
Do what Batteroo are doing.... stretching the truth.
I just came across a product which I would much prefer had the behavior of suddenly dying rather than having the battery voltage tail off gradually....
A frikkin Brymen 857 multimeter....
Just before the 9V battery died, it got really inaccurate. It freaked me out since I knew the thing I was measuring was good. Yes I know I ignored the battery warning too long, but still. Don't lie to me, just die when you know you are about to stop being accurate! Fresh battery brought it back to normal.
Wonder how bad the boost converter ripple would jack up the measurement circuits of a meter...
They just sent out a mailing about that contest to find something, anything, that works with the Batteroo https://www.batteroo.com/contest
We would like to wish you a happy new year and start 2017 by showing our appreciation to our customers! We are officially starting the Batteroo Customer Appreciation Contest! We are giving away $500 every month to the customer that comes up with the most fun and creative photo or video using our Batteroo Boost sleeves.
In addition to the photo/video contest, we are also choosing 10 winners every month who submit written testimonials, describing how they've benefited from Batteroo Boost. Each of these 10 winners will receive a $50 reward for their Batteroo Boost testimonial!
February’s contest, which is our first, will begin today. Since it is our first month, we are giving everybody an early start! At the end of every month, we will announce the winners. The first day of the following month, the contest begins again!
Submit videos, images to www.batteroo.com/contest, and written testimonaials to contest@batteroo.com
For full contest rules, visit www.batteroo.com/contest
"most fun and creative photo or video using our Batteroo Boost sleeves". Well, I have some ideas:
- After one side broken off, which the product is designed to do, use some electrical tape one one side, then you can use it as a nice cutter, e.g. for opening mailbags.
- Use the sharp points at the positive terminal as a marker, to mark the position when you drill holes. This is perfect for it, because you can rotate it to create a circle, for larger diameter drills.
- In winter before you go out, carefully twist and move the battery a bit when it is in a device, until it starts getting warm. Then you can use it as a hand warmer. Note: do this only when there is snow outside, you might have to throw it away when the battery catches fire.
- Use it as a gift for a person you don't like. Then record a video when it fails early and the person complains that now even more batteries goes to the landfill.
Whack some batteroos (4 of them) into the Mooninite LED Panel, put it in Boston, and finally have a REAL IED bomb
Whack some batteroos (4 of them) into the Mooninite LED Panel, put it in Boston, and finally have a REAL IED bomb
How is that at all funny FFS?
it's funny because it has a high chance to explode when you're not expecting it
Do you have a problem with the fact that Batteroo sleeves often overheat, and could potentially drive the battery to explode ?
it is in fact a potential random bomb, like some other badly designed battery devices.
Whack some batteroos (4 of them) into the Mooninite LED Panel, put it in Boston, and finally have a REAL IED bomb
How is that at all funny FFS?
Did you not know the piece of story concerning the LED panel Mooninite ad campaign that caused the Boston bomb scare?
It was just an innocent piece of LED matrix advertising board... but now with batteroo...!
In addition to the photo/video contest, we are also choosing 10 winners every month who submit written testimonials, describing how they've benefited from Batteroo Boost. Each of these 10 winners will receive a $50 reward for their Batteroo Boost testimonial!
Youtube income from debunking videos....
My set of 4 Batteroo AA arrived today in a retail package.
I guess, I will do some testing over the weekend.
Call me fussy - but I would have suggested checking the polarity (step 2) as the first thing to do,
before inserting the battery into the sleeve (step 1).
... or have I misinterpreted the instructions?
My set of 4 Batteroo AA arrived today in a retail package.
I guess, I will do some testing over the weekend.
I hope in devices. I think there are enough graphs. I still want to see the monkeys and my guess they will fail because Bateroo showed them in a video but did not show any tests with them.
I think people are beginning to smell the bullshit, and the apparent shipping problems
Previous comments are deleted and so will a few of these.
I think we may be being very, very nice to Batteroo by avoiding some of the basic tests.
We keep testing single batteries - but most devices use more then one battery cell. As far as I know, no one has even done one of the most basic important checks - a reverse diode test across the output to see if it acts like a diode. Absolutely unbelievable!
When a Batteriser shuts down due to low voltage, what does it do? A really important questions as the other Batterisers are still producing 1.5V at this point.
If it goes open:
The shutdown cell will get a reverse voltage across it - so it has to be able to be an open circuit with a reverse voltage of up to 10.5V (for a device that uses 8 AA cells - such as many old handheld walkie talkies). It could be tested non-destructively by applying the reverse voltage via a 10K resistor. See what the maximum voltage it can take. Perhaps short out the battery contacts to simulate a flat battery. 10.5V does not sound like much, but the batteriser IC is optimised for high currents and 1.5V operation - it may use devices with a 5V maximum rating.
The big thing if it behaves this way is that if there is one weak battery cell in a multi battery cell device, the Batteriser will draw more current from the weak cell then all the other cells and so it speeds up the discharge of that weakest cell. When the device shuts down, you chuck out all the cells (it is the Batteriser right? Uses every drop of power from a cell.) The trouble is those other cells you are chucking out may have more remaining charge in them then if you had no Batteriser - so the Batteriser, even if 100% efficient, may be wasting more batteries!
Lots of people buy AA/AAA cells in bulk so by the time they are used, they may be years old. Or they grab whatever mixed batteries they have on hand. It is easy to end up with a set of batteries with very different available capacities.
If it looks like a diode junction with a reverse voltage:
This opens up a whole nest of questions.
For a start, the device can still draw current from the other 3 battery cells (in a 4 battery device) and so in a high current device, there can be a lot of heat in this reverse diode junction - probably much more then when the Batteriser is in switching mode. Could easily cuase the Batteriser IC to fuse (ie become a short across the battery). This could be the factor that decides the maximum current rating of the Batteriser.
The second point that I have raised several times is that if the IC acts like a diode with a reverse applied voltage, the device may be susceptible to latch up. To test non-destructively (hopefully), apply a reverse current through the output of say 100mA with no battery and then connect 1.6V via 100 ohms to the battery terminals. Then switch off the 100mA through the output. Is the batteriser dragging down the 1.6V to a lower voltage such as 1.2V? If it has this inherent weakness, then it is possible for the Batteriser to latch up during the insertion of the last battery into a switched-on device or a device that has a capacitor permanently across the batteries. If it can latch up, this could easily cause enough heat in the switching IC to make it fuse and short the battery out. It is possible to design latch-up resistant IC's, but most switching regulator IC's probably were not designed at the start to have to cope with working in series with other regulators.
If the Batteriser behaves in some different way:
The least likely, but say when it shuts down, it somehow connects the flat battery to the outputs. Really unlikely.
Richard
They just went through their next check and delete cycle and the comments i posted a few hours ago are deleted
But another comment showing the frustrated customers
My worst battery abusers will not take the Batteroo sleeve due to size restrictions. I have had batteries drained of power. I had one Batteroo short out and melt the top off.
There is more to a successful business than just a great product
You would think he might have concluded by now that the product isn't anywhere near great.
So yet another report of a melted Batteriser!
Is that 4 now?
There is more to a succesfull business than just a great product
Great product? What have I been missing
If my device would burn I would:
First ask my insurance, maybe their lawyers can speed things up.
Second mail the known consumer watchdog programs and insitutions.
Great news for all the electronic accordion players out there... maybe...well he doesn't actually say... I wonder if he's received his $50 yet?
https://youtu.be/hy1M7rnYTs4
Great news for all the electronic accordion players out there... maybe...well he doesn't actually say... I wonder if he's received his $50 yet?
I didn't know that there are battery powered accordions. "just 10 batteries"
First search result for it is a forum entry how to replace it with a $20 Li-ion battery pack from eBay, charger included.
Great news for all the electronic accordion players out there... maybe...well he doesn't actually say... I wonder if he's received his $50 yet?
I didn't know that there are battery powered accordions. "just 10 batteries" First search result for it is a forum entry how to replace it with a $20 Li-ion battery pack from eBay, charger included.
This poor old gentleman is exactly the kind of credulous sucker that is preyed upon by those running scams and worthless products like the Batteroo. I feel sorry for him, but caveat emptor and all that...
If he had done that same quick google search, he would have saved himself a great deal of money and gained much better performance and life per use by buying the rechargable battery pack instead.