Charge controllers in less than 60 seconds: the Super Charger

[gr33nFIEND]

Charge controllers in less than 60 seconds: the Super Charger

Performance Designed Products (PDP) has unveiled its Super Charger, which charges a controller in less than 60 seconds and provides hours of use.

[MalicE]

.....that doesn't sound good for the battery

[matt]

.....that doesn't sound good for the battery

I was just thinking the same thing...

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.....that doesn't sound good for the battery

Screw the battery, my poor hands!

A typical rechargeable AA battery has a capacity of about 800 mAh, so if you've got two of them (as in my 360 controller), that's a capacity of about 1.6 Ah. 1.6 Ah divided by the one minute of charging requires a current of 96 Amps. That's in the ballpark for a car's starter motor. That's nearly double where your typical house breaker trips out. It might be low voltage, but that amperage scares me shitless. I'll leave my rechargeables in the charger overnight, thanks.

[matt]

Screw the battery, my poor hands!

A typical rechargeable AA battery has a capacity of about 800 mAh, so if you've got two of them (as in my 360 controller), that's a capacity of about 1.6 Ah. 1.6 Ah divided by the one minute of charging requires a current of 96 Amps. That's in the ballpark for a car's starter motor. That's nearly double where your typical house breaker trips out. It might be low voltage, but that amperage scares me shitless. I'll leave my rechargeables in the charger overnight, thanks.

I have a stock of rechargeable batteries in the drawer for my xbox 360 controllers and my headset, whenever some go flat, I grab some fresh ones out the drawer and pop the flat ones in the charger.

Unfortunately, Playstation controllers have built in batteries, so that means you can't do that, I have a spare Dualshock 3 controller, so I could swap when one went flat on when I was playing PS3, but I only have one Dualshock 4 controller, and that thing goes flat super fast.

[B1nary]

I will wait for the future graphene batteries