twesterm on 04 May 2009
| nordlead said: well, I'm sure your nyko station stopped working because the battery died. Rechargeable batteries die around the 500th charge cycle or 2 years worth of use. Depending on how much you used them, they can die faster than 2 years. I've already discarded about 10 rechargeable engergizer AA batteries because they died too. I don't know if there have been any advancements in cheap battery technology, but I would expect the same lifetime out of this charging system. Also, since it is an inductive system (for those who don't know, this means it charges by using magnetic waves, rather than an electrical connection), so the original battery covers should be the ones used. All energizer should be providing is a battery with some built in electronics for charging along with the base station. Of course, I could be wrong, as the new battery may be built right into a cover to provide extra space for energizer to do stuff, but who knows. |
I promise you I didn't get near 500 charges with those things. From what I hear it's a pretty common problem for the Nyko Charging Station to just stop working. I haven't really thought about changing the battery packs because I haven't played my Wii much for the last year or so until recently anyways.
