Charge Station

Do you guys use charge stations, rechargable battery packs/batteries or any other chargable controller device? >_< I've been using a cheap Charge Station that I got from Best Buy; was told the device was efficient and useful, but over time the battery life went down, not up. One charge pack, not battery, has absolutely no life left while the other can only retain its activity for a half an hour, tops.

Is there any way to fix this, and have you guys had any similar problems?

I got an energizer charging station a year and a half ago. I exchanged it/returned it twice and they keep flaking out. It's not like I'm screwing up putting in a battery, and it can't be the controllers themselves that are faulty, but the batteries just die, and fairly quickly. Way before any rational person would claim is the minimum amount of time it should last.

I wouldn't recommend it.

quote bbb7002004

All rechargeable batteries will eventually stop holding a charge, most Li alloy batteries will end up only going to around half a charge after a year or so.

I've had two chargers, one a nyko that died after about a year and an energizer capacitve set that I'm still using. I know several brands sell separate replacement batteries.

Probably the same idea, but I'm using charge packs, not batteries. I've been using them for about a year -- maybe less -- and they've just about killed the remotes entirely. I'm lucky when I get ten minutes of life on them.

Eventually batteries just have their day. I use a HIVE charging dock which fortunately I was given two battery packs with. I used one nonstop while keeping the other one for when the first kacks it. After about a year and a half the original pack just lost its edge and simply loses power when I'm not even using it.

quote Sonicfan

yall dont waste your time with them rechargeable batteries, there nothing but crap. i once had a charge set and it worked good until a half a year later and then it became crap, you could have that battery charged for 10 hours and it wont have battery life for five minutes, so dont use them

For the price of a cheap dock and pack set it dominates buying new batteries every time a previous set runs out - or using rechargeable batteries too is also good of course.

Yeah, there's a few things I do to try and extend the life. For example I only recharge the Wiimote once it's nearly out of power unless I'm doing something particularly important; constantly recharging batteries that already have a fair amount of juice in them isn't good for their working life. I also make sure to clean the packs and docking station regularly.