Turnigy Low Self-Discharge (LSD) NiMH AA's

[BrianG]

The table was just to show the values. $1.82 is the best price at 171 cells, but $1.87 for 85 cells is doable from the few responses here and is not much more at all. But really, considering regular AA NiMHs are around $2.75 per cell in the US in stores, any of those prices is good, and the LSD cells are much better for transmitter use.

It really depends on how many people are serious. Another way to make it cheaper would be to get parcel shipping, but that would take forever, and doesn't seem to be available as an option sometimes.

I've been doing some searching for LSD NiMH around in the US and the cheapest I've seen is for Sanyo's Eneloops at around $12 for 4 (shipping included). That's $3 per cell.

Originally Posted by BrianG

.....I've been doing some searching for LSD NiMH around in the US and the cheapest I've seen is for Sanyo's Eneloops at around $12 for 4 (shipping included). That's $3 per cell.

You can find them on Thomas Distributing for about $10 for 4 - Sanyos or Mahas and some lesser known others. But S&H is almost another $7......no deal there. Thomas sticks you for S&H.

The price per cell shipped drops to $3/cell somewhere between 16 and 20 cells and continues to fall the more you buy. I was looking at the Maha Imedions, they didn't have any AA Sanyos. For 80cells it was $2.57/cell shipped.

A big factor that the HC LSDs have, at least to me - they seem to be proven. The Ansmanns, Nexcells, Imedions, Lexmars LSDs are not a known performer but they might well be just as good. Last time I bought a batch of Maha Powerex AAs, they were listed as 2700s and mine were never more than 2500 and change - felt cheated just a little, they were obviously overrated. Don't want that to happen with these. HC LSDs look like they are underrated if anything.