- Professional grade disposable battery regenerator that is used for AA, AAA, C, D & 9V batteries
- The Renu-It is a small compact professional grade battery regenerator.
- The Renu-It is UL listed
- For customer service call 888.7.Viatek
- Used for Ni-Cd, Ni-MH and Alkaline batteries
Product Description
Renu-It is a professioal grade disposable battery regenerator. It can regererate NI-MH, Ni-Cd and Alkaline batteries from 2.5 hours to 7 hours depending on size of battery. This is how it works, the chemical reactions within the battery cause electrons to be stripped away from the carbon electrode so electrons will try to flow from a battery’s negative terminal to its positive one, if allowed. As a battery is used this cell gets “disorganized” as electrons get jum… More >>
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#1 by Stan on April 28, 2010 - 1:07 pm
The product works as advertised. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002MUAG1Y/ref=cm_cr_rev_prod_title
What I like most about it is that if a battery is “bad” it will tell you.
Also you can “regenerate” regular “alkaline” batteries. If the battery is not completely toast you can “regenerate” it and continue to use it. Like all batteries that are recharged, each time you charge they comes back to “better” but not as “good as new.”
I like mine, I like what it does and think it was a good investment. I would advise a charge tester for anyone using this as you can see which batteries have just outlived their usefulness. At some point it makes sense to dispose of and get some new ones.
Rating: 4 / 5
#2 by Alan L. Mccusker on April 28, 2010 - 1:57 pm
I have kids around the place (not all mine) and there are a great number of battery powered devices in use every day.
This battery Renu-it recharges every kind of battery . No more searching & testing (and throwing away) batteries. We even collected other peoples throw away batteries & now have a large assortment on hand.
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by Daniel Lemut on April 28, 2010 - 2:40 pm
I have used the Viatek RE02 to “regenerate” AA and D alkaline disposable batteries, some of which were the inexpensive Phaser brand sold by Aldi.
I was not sure I wanted to buy a Viatek product. Viatek sells everything under the sun, it seems, and their wares are the stuff of televised home shopping and late-night infomercials. But having seen the device in catalogs from Cyberguys and even Hammacher Schlemmer, I decided that there must be some truth to the claim to revitalize batteries that would otherwise be thrown in the trash. I found a vendor selling the Viatek RE02 here on Amazon for about 70% of the list price and shipped for free, so I decided to try it out.
To date I am completely satisfied that the product lives up to its claim. A few hours in the device yields days of utility from now reusable disposable alkaline batteries.
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by L. Anderson on April 28, 2010 - 3:44 pm
You are probably hoping that this “new and improved” product would finally recharge alkaline batteries as several products have claimed. Well, please don’t waste your money. Now in all fairness, it does recharge NiCd and NiMH, and I did charge some of those batteries which it did just fine. However, there are plenty of other less expensive chargers out there to charge rechargable batteries. As far as alkaline batteries are concerned, it also would determine if a battery was completely dead (which you can also do with a multimeter). You stick the alkaline batteries in the device, they charge for about a half an hour, but when they come out there is no appreciable improvement in the charge. Unfortunate this device did not work as promised.
Rating: 2 / 5