Product Description

Sony's worldwide reputation for creating unique, attractive, high-quality, advanced technology products rests on a long line of innovations embraced by people from all walks of life. With a diverse product lineup serving a variety of lifestyles and industries, Sony continuously strives to introduce new products and technologies to meet changing market needs.

Product Details

• Brand: Sony
• Model: BCG-34HUE4
• Dimensions: 1.50" h x 3.07" w x 5.12" l, 4.00 pounds
• Battery type: NiMh

Features

• NiMH battery charger for charging up to 4 high-capacity 2500 mAh batteries
• Brings batteries back to full power in roughly 15 minutes
• Voltage- and temperature-monitoring functions
• Automatic charge cutoff conserves power
• Includes 4 rechargeable AA batteries

Amazon.com Product Description
Keep your high-capacity AA rechargeable batteries fully juiced with this Sony battery charger, which renews up to four NiMH batteries in a mere 15 minutes. The device monitors both the voltage and the temperature of the current charge, while also offering an automatic charge cutoff to conserve energy. The charger comes in handy anytime you need to restore batteries in a hurry, such as before a rushed digital photo shoot or when preparing your portable CD player for a long train trip. The device also comes with four 2,500 mAh AA batteries, so it's ready to use right out of the box.

What's in the Box
BCG-34HUE4 charger, four 2500 mAh AA batteries.

Customer Reviews

5 star for the first week, 0 star thereafter
I may gave this product 5 star if I wrote this review in its first week for its amazing charging speed, however after a year's usage, I am not hesitate to give 0 star, for the endless trouble it bring to me.

First of all, this charger has a huge adapter which is not displayed in the picture, what make it even worse, it is only 110V capable, which means it is not working in other country which has 220V voltage. So travllers be aware, this is definitely not what you want.

Then I found these batteries discharge very quickly, leave the battery a couple days unused, you will found they are empty in just several shoots in my digital camera.

My latest find is this charger greatly shorten the battery life. Now all of the 4 AA batteries are died in just 30 cycle recharging, comparing ordinary rechageable batteries have 500-1000 recharging cycle.

I finally decided to buy a new one to get me out of these troubles since I do not wish to miss the precious shot any more.

sony 15 min. charger
This is one of the best items on the market for rechargeable batteries

Not very impressive.
It is more than a year since I bought this. I was excited at first to have a battery charger to quickly charge in 15 minutes. There were several times that we were about to go for a trip and that I remember I do not have any ready AA batteries for my gadgets. If I still have 15 mins, then it is not too late.

Pros:
-It works OK with the Sony batteries it came with

Cons:
-It does very poor charging with other batteries other than Sony's. (Even if the fan and the light has turned off. Batteries are still far from fully charged). Particularly batteries that has lower than 2500mAh ratings.
-Usually you have a retractable prong on the charger itself to plug it on the wall. This one has a separate power supply that is as big as a brick! What's with that?
-You need some muscles to place and remove the batteries from the charger. This part of the design is strange and baffles me.
-A little loud (it has a built-in cooling fan)
-Expensive

Recommendations:
Check out the new low discharge batteries from Eneloop (Sanyo), Rayovac, Kodak, etc. before even thinking of buying this.