1hr Turn Around Uniross Battery Charger

Uniross are ahead of the current “Green” game with the long established rechargeable battery business. Now you can push that a little further by reducing the amount of electricity you use to recharge your batteries.

The blister packaging was easy to remove, and involved no hacking with scissors like usual.

The Uniross Fast Charger comes packaged with 4 x 2700mAh AA batteries, great for high drain applications like digital cameras and flashes, remote control toys etc. As an added bonus to the 3 pin mains supply, you also get a 12 volt car lighter socket adapter for on the more “power ups” .

The base charger supports both AA and AAA batteries, in pairs of two. I found the AAA flip down spacer built in to the charger was a little loose and often meant the batteries didn’t make decent contact - preventing them from charge.

Two LED indicators are mounted to the side of each pair of batteries, flashing green indicating charge complete, whilst solid red letting you now they batteries are being re-charged. Or at least that’s what I assume; even though the packaging states you should read the instructions — none appeared to be contained in the box nor printed on the reverse of the inlay card.

Due to the interchangeable power supply facility, it does mean the charger comes in two parts, which feels a little messy in comparison to the all-in-one Uniross units such as the RC101129. It also means you need to keep tabs on two things when storing the charger.

I’ve been using a USB battery charger recently, hooked up to the Nintendo Wii USB port to charge batteries whilst playing on the console. The Nintendo Wii remotes (and XBox 360 controllers too) are well known for their battery consumption due to the Bluetooth wireless technology. The problem with USB battery chargers is the charge time. Due to the drip charge nature of the power provided by the USB connection it can take a long time, as much as 8 hours.

The Uniross Fast Charge’s claim of a 1 hour turn around for 4 x AA batteries is too much of a good claim to not test.

I found that, the supplied new batteries re-charged in around the 1 hour quoted, by my older batteries took a lot longer to recharge.

So over all - faster than the usual charger, but you’ll not get 1 hour charging forever. But with everybody wanting to appear to be more environmentally friendly this year, a quicker battery charger is a small step in the righ direction for everyone.

The Uniross Fast Charge is available now in all good battery retailers!

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