Lexman batteries (this is the own brand of the Leroy Merlin chain of stores) have always broken all records in terms of price / quality ratio. Recently, the line of these batteries has been updated with orange Standard batteries. I tested them and compared them with other batteries.
Lexman alkaline batteries used to be red in color. I tested them (https://ammo1.livejournal.com/1021138.html) and they were excellent: at a price of 6 rubles apiece, they outstripped many expensive batteries in capacity.
Then came Lexman Intensive blue batteries (https://ammo1.livejournal.com/1063157.html), which cost much more - 22 rubles apiece, but according to the results of my tests, they turned out to be exactly the same as the red ones.
Now there are almost no red batteries left in stores, and blue Intensive and new orange Standard ones are sold at the same price - 14 rubles per AA unit and 13 rubles per AAA unit.
Note that prices may differ from store to store. In a store near the MCC ZIL station, I bought yellow batteries exactly at this price (for some reason they were only at the checkout counters, and in the battery department there were significantly more expensive packages of 2 and 6 pieces).
This is how the battery packs look at the back.
Like all other Lexman batteries, orange ones are produced by the Chinese company Zhongyin (Ningbo) Battery.
I tested the batteries using a battery analyzer Oleg Artamonov.
The batteries were discharged in three modes:
• Discharge with direct current 200 mA. Such a load is inherent in electronic toys;
• Pulse discharge (10 seconds load, 20 seconds pause) 2500 mA for AA batteries and 1000 mA for AAA. This load is typical for powerful devices;
• Discharge in "constant resistance" mode with an initial current of 1000 mA. This mode emulates the operation of a flashlight or devices with electric motors.
The measurements were made when the batteries were discharged to a voltage of 0.7 V.
When discharged with a constant current of 200 mA, AA batteries produced 2.52 Wh, AAA - 1.00 Wh. Let me remind you that the red AA had 2.62 Wh, the blue AA had 2.65 Wh, and the red AAA had 1.07 and 1.09 Wh.
With a pulsed discharge with a high current of 2500 mA, Lexman Standard gave 0.82 Wh (blue Intensive AA had 0.79 Wh, red 0.9 Wh).
With a pulsed discharge with a high current of 1000 mA, the usual Lexman Standard AAA gave 0.5 Wh (the blue Lexman Intensive AAA had 0.55 Wh, the red one 0.51 Wh).
The third test is discharge in constant resistance mode with an initial current of 1000 mA. This mode emulates the operation of a powerful flashlight, whose current consumption decreases as the batteries are discharged. In this mode, Lexman Standard AA produced 1.55 Wh, AAA - 0.59 Wh. I have not tested other Lexman AA batteries in this mode, and the blue and red AAA batteries gave 0.61 and 0.6 Wh.
It is surprising, but orange and blue AA Lexman batteries for 14 rubles outstrip the most expensive batteries in capacity, for example Energizer Maximum (55-70 rubles apiece) and Varta Max Tech (65-85 rubles), slightly inferior only to Duracell Turbo Max (80-100 rub. a piece). Lexman AAA batteries outperform Duracell Turbo Max.
The capacity of the orange Lexman Stnadard batteries turned out to be slightly less than that of the blue Intensive ones, but by only a few percent, and both batteries withstand a powerful load equally.
If on the shelf in Leroy you see blue and yellow batteries at the same price, take blue ones, and if orange ones turn out to be even a ruble cheaper - feel free to buy them.
© 2020, Alexey Nadezhin
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