Today I’m reviewing this Cohhee Intelligent Battery Charger (sponsored link) that I recently bought from Amazon, to recharge my AA and AAA batteries.
This isn’t the first ‘intelligent’ battery charger that I’ve bought – I have an older one, but it could only charge pairs of batteries (not single batteries) and didn’t detect batteries that could no longer charge. This Cohhee battery charger doesn’t have these faults; you can charge single batteries if needed, and mix and match between AA and AAA batteries. And, it’ll tell you if a battery is unable to be charged anymore.
Charging is quite fast – about 5 hours for AA batteries, and two hours for AAA. There’s a screen along the top that shows the charging progress of each battery. It’s relatively compact, and doesn’t need to plugged into a wall socket. Instead, it’s powered by a USB-C cable. It claims to have over-charging and over-heating protection too.
Having used it for a couple of months, I’ve found that the batteries I’ve charged up in it last longer than before. That’s probably because it charges the batteries individually, rather than as pairs, and identified the dud batteries that I could then get rid of.
Its normal retail price is only £9, but it’s on sale for £8 at the time of writing. Batteries not included.