Having recently bought two packs of Panasonic Eneloops from BeaconShop (Amazon Marketplace), the BK-3MCCE model, I was wondering whether they were fake, just because the blind date stamp on them looked quite different to the one on my other Eneloops and because they were quite cheap – £6.99 (Including a battery case, which looks different to the old battery cases).

I thought I compare them with Panasonic’s official numbers, which can be found on their Polish web site to find out whether they are fake or not.

Everything I checked was slightly off, but not enough to make me certain that they were fake.

The capacity should be at least 1900 mAh, I measured 1755 – 1776 mAh with my Technoline IC8800 charger.

The weight should be ~ 27 g, I measured between 25.8 – 25.9 g.

The dimensions should be 14.35 mm x 50.4 mm, I measured 14.15 mm x 50.23 mm.

I guess I’ll just keep an eye on them and hope they are the real thing.

Update: I bought another pack of the latest Eneloops from Maplin, hoping they have to be real if they are from the high street, and they seem very similar to the ones I bought online. When I checked their capacity (after discharging and charging in my IC8800 charger) they were slightly better than the ones bought online (1,788 – 1,808 mAh), but still not as good as they should be. Looks, weight (25.7 – 25.9 g) and date stamps of the Maplin and the online bought Eneloops were the same, so for now I believe that the ones bought online were real.