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To fully recharge a pack, you have to leave the xbox on overnight, thus wasting lots of electricity. Works to recharge your xbox powerpacks when still in the controller, BUT will not charge them while the xbox is off.
Within a few months it just kept charging and charging and never turning off, and when the charging cable was unplugged the controller immediately went dead.This feature can be turned off in the system settings (it's the same setting that enables downloads while the system is powered off), but if the controller packs are never charging when the system is off, then you are forced to play corded and when you decide you want to go wireless, the batteries aren't charged to play very long.I now just use rechargeable AA batteries. Right after buying my Xbox 360, I picked up a couple of these Plug & Charge kits. They worked great at first, but because of a fault with the Xbox 360 not detecting when the battery packs were fully charged, within months they were overcharged and unusuable.The Xbox 360 has a feature that will turn the system off, but not completely so that the battery packs can fully charge before turning off fully.
Change the battery again, right. Another cool feature is that it also has a "trickle charge system". Yeah, sure but this got old quickly and I knew I had to do something so I found my way to Amazon and found this nifty little charger. What I do is simply plug it in every night when I'm done playing so when I come back the next day, I have a controller ready to go. When I first got my 360, I was happy with it and I didn't mind changing the AA batteries the first time when they died.
Yes, I do. Also, taking out the batteries to charge every time quickly gets old and you face risk of losing them, damaging them, getting injured etc. So do I recommend this product. It comes with a charging cable which connects to a USB port, preferably, on the front of your 360.
It also comes with a rechargeable battery to start you off with. However, I'm a serious gamer and it didn't take long for the second to die too. Like the name suggests, the quick charge charges the batteries really fast in 2 hours average while the play and charge is not as fast. However, there is currently another charging option called the "Quick Charge Kit", I believe. Sometimes, I would plug in my controller for a few hours and come back to game and no less than a few minutes or an hour, the low battery signal on the controller would start showing again. This only happened a few times but not enough to be annoying.
However, while charging your battery with the quick charge, you CANNOT use your controllers which to me KILLS the whole experience. Just make sure to plug in the controller BEFORE turning off the console or the charging will not be initiated.
With the play and charge kit, you CAN play while charging. I have had it for a long time now and I can attest that I have never had any technical problems with it or issues.
Why spend time waiting for a battery to charge when you can be popping alien heads off. No problem.
The "Play and Charge" and the "Quick Charge" both have their advantages and disadvantages. The only downside I found with this product was that the charging can be very inaccurate a few times.
3 days, I got it and I have to say it has saved me MONEY on buying batteries all the time. Which means that you can even charge your controller while your console is off.
a single pair will easily last for weeks, especially without rumble enabled. Basically, while the Li-ion batteries don't last nearly as long as the AA's, they do have the advantage of being almost infinitely rechargeable. If you're hardcore, this is a necessity, otherwise, you might just be better off with AA's.
I think I charged it maybe once in 3 months. The cool thing about it is that even if your not a hardcore gamer and just play maybe 3 or 4 hours a week it stays charged. Now that schools over I might acutally put this thing to the test. I think I must have waisted about twenty dollars on batterys. This thing has saved me so much money its not even funny.
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