At least, this new video is much more difficult to attack, apart from the fact that most device won't fail on the fist voltage spike, there is no the crap "you have to take the whole square for remaining capacity" or that poor snail that no one ask if he was happy to be there.
Still quite a few errors.
00:44 Significant number of batteries thrown away only used 20% of their capacity. Debunked.
00:48 80% still trapped inside. Debunked.
01:39 "The first time one of these glitches goes below the minimum operating voltage of the device, the device stops functioning (showing a chart with a glitch at about 20% of the discharge curve" Debunked.
02:00 Shows a 2 hour battery life for Garmin Approach G3 on allegedly new Duracell? Debunked.
02:10 Claims that UL have replicated and verified their result. And that UL found that batteriser improved battery life in the Garmin by nearly 600% over new batteries. Debunked.
02:13 Claim that the full UL report is at batteriser.com. It is not. No one has ever seen an official full UL report on this. Debunked.
02:26 A battery recycling conference tested batteries from unknown/unstated sources:
("The sample batteries have been collected by Kassensturz during spring 2002 from 19 recycling boxes in supermarkets, consumer electronic shops and offices in the Zurich and Basle area."), and found that 30% of them had 84% capacity remaining. It is unknown if these batteries were recycled from commercial locations, where batteries are thrown away when still good, where people don't care about using the capacity in batteries, perhaps they have short term needs of batteries that won't give out on jobs and they recycle them afterwards or just throw away unused packs of batteries because the dates are expired and they've been stored for ages. People in office, industrial, commercial settings are unlikely to worry about using all the capacity in batteries before they chuck them and put in fresh ones. Those users aren't going to care about using batterisers either. Given that we don't know the background of these particular sourced batteries, it is not a reliable figure to place any weight on.
Also, here is the actual study in Switzerland which they took that data from:
http://www2.ife.ee.ethz.ch/~rolfz/batak/ICBR2003_Zinniker.pdfThey had a sample of 636 cells. Not a very big "study" then. The same study found that 55% of the batteries (more than half) had less than 500mAh capacity remaining. 40% had zero capacity remaining. They found that the overall average capacity remaining was 33% per cell. And that from a sample pool which is most likely to throw away perfectly good batteries. Much more so than a household. The reason being not because the devices can't use most or all of the batteries capacity or because the user needs a device to enable such, but because of the actions and attitudes of the users.
The study came to several conclusions and recommendations, none of which was to put a sleeve on batteries to make them seem like they have 100% of charge until they die.
Glaring omissions from the video:
-Most devices run down to 1.0V, or 0.9V per cell.
-Most devices therefore use at least 80-90% of a cells available energy.
-The last 10-20% is harder to extract because of lower cell voltage and higher ESR.
-The batteriser must be extremely current limited, making it impossible to draw a useful current, especially as the cell gets low in energy.
-The batteriser can be no more than 70-80% efficient on average in a best case scenario, offsetting any potential gain made by extracting all of the capacity in cells, burning it off as waste heat.
-They claim it saves money and the environment. Both are false. It costs money, albeit not a lot. It doesn't save on battery consumption. It is far more harmful to the environment to provide a placebo device which encourages people to continue using single-shot Alkaline cells rather than moving to LSD NiMH rechargeable cells which can be reused over 2000 times.
-If users were to switch to LSD NiMH cells, they would have the advantages of higher current capability, no vampire current loss, no device inefficiencies, longer life between battery changes, over 2000 re-uses per cell, better performance in high and low temperature environments, flatter discharge curves...