What Do You Use To Power Your Wireless Controller? Options

[XanTium]

vote/discuss!

[majinsoftware]

Dragon rechargable battery pack. Only lasts about 6 months till it wont hold charge for over a few hours but for $18 you cant go wrong.

[hamwbone]

sanyo eneloops from costco. they were running a great deal on them this past summer.

and when i forget to recharge them all i steal batteries from other remotes/toothbrushes through out the house.

[tornado89]

Actually ... the official kit costs 82$ ... where I live..
so I'm sticking to 2 Official kits.. and the rest of the x6 controllers ...
regular Alkaline AAs

This post has been edited by tornado89: Feb 20 2010, 01:44 PM

[iTry]

offical play and charge all the way

[psphackr]

Madcatz Play and Charge kit.

Also have a wired Game Stop controller

[Boomer]

I have 4 eneloops, awesome batteries! And 6 energizer recharables, also great. Last a long time before needing recharging

[bchmo]

Rechargeable AA's here. Had a play and charge kit but the batteries don't last nearly as long as regular or rechargeable AA's and plus you always have that annoying wire hanging from the console so I gave it to a friend. I hear some people leave theirs hooked up to the controller all the time so why not just get a wired controller if that's the case?

[Grim187]

if your not using a wired controller your not a true gamer.


Edit: you forgot M$ Quick Charge.

This post has been edited by Grim187: Feb 22 2010, 02:22 AM

[kraken]

I never understood the point of the play and charge kit when rechargeable AAs are so much cheaper and more versatile. Though I usually use a wired controller, I have a wireless one too, and I use the same rechargeable AAs for that as I do for my wiimotes. Why would you limit yourself to batteries that only work in one device?

[RichMR2]

No option for MS Rechargeable battery and stand alone quick charger so had to choose play & charge kit... not the same thing but the closest on the list.

MS battery & charger charges much faster than standard rechargeable AAs and price wise, are around the same, that's why I use this.

[LiGhTfasT]

Gave up charging mine and bought a wired pad and never looked back

Wired FTW

[danthaman673]

You can pick up the ni-mh battery-packs pretty cheap now (usually in the twin packs). If your running a decent rapidfire mod u need to have the charge cable in while u play for voltage prescision aqnd consistency.
I also use recharge-able AA's (Hi Current output 'alkalines') They sometimes out-last the older packs. :-)

The only thing that sucks with having the cable is that they don't have good strain-relief and as a result the inner wires work-harden resulting in undesirable effects such as not-charging all the way to stuffing the controller/battery (alltho dead controllers don't seem to occur as much as they used to with the newer design M$ are putting-out)


This post has been edited by danthaman673: Feb 22 2010, 01:58 PM

[iceman2048]

Voted for rechargeable AAs.

A relatively minor question, can the play and charge kit be used without any sort of batteries/battery pack installed? MS says you can't but I'd like to hear from gamers who use it on a da-to-day basis

[cronogr]

wired controller is the way to go, it's lighter the cable is long enough and u won't ever need a power supply of any kind the cost is around 25euros, cheaper than a wireless so is the way to go if u spend too much hours in front of ur xbox