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Charges fast ad works for about 3 hours. Also if there are two screens, like I have, the battery goes a little faster. Works just as expected. The louder the volume on the dvd player the shorter the time you get but not that big of a difference. But overall definitely worth the purchase. Bought to go with an Audiovox portable DVD player so my kids could watch on the airplane (model I got didnt come with a battery -which is odd in and of itself). But it comes with 5 different adapters to use with a huge variety of appliances.
I picked the correct plug tip (you get 5 different ones, all conveniently attached to a rubber bar so you won't lose them) for my 10" Phillips DVD player. It only goes in about 1/2 way, and since there is no indicator light to show that is charging, I can't tell. Well, I'm trying to change my rating to 4 stars, but it won't let me. Then I put in my kid's dvd and started to fall asleep. The unit doesn't get warm or hot either. However, the round a/c plug doesn't go all the way into the unit. The unit doesn't get hot so I can't tell that it's charging at all. I watched a movie in medium volume, then I tried the headset, then back to speaker mode.
After 16 hours, the unit was not hot at all, but barely warm to the touch underneath. I just received this unit in the mail and am charging it. That would be 4 - 1/2 hours. Now granted this long play time is due to the fact that I used it on my 7" dvd player. That 1 -1/2 hour movie ended too.
The 2 hour movie ended so I put in another movie. The only thing that I didn't like was the fact that there is no red led indicator light to tell me that it's charging. Hope this review helps all of you. Anything in between should be 2 - 3 hours, my guess.I LOVE this round thing. As the instructions stated, the charge for a 10" screen lasted exactly 1 hour. My 10" dvd player only ran for 1 hour. Is this normal.
Finally, at 1:56 pm, this energizer battery died. Then, I plugged it into my Audiovox D1718PK 7" Portable DVD Player (with Bonus Headphones and Car Kit sold here for $99.00 right now) and wrote down the start time at 9:18 am. Anyone have an answer for me.I'll write a full review after I figure this charging question out.UPDATE: All right, I charged this for the required 16 hours initially. So I recharged this unit for 8-10 hours the second time, as per instructions.
This product was supposed to fit pretty much anything including our DVD player, but it doesn't. I purchased this battery to complement my portable DVD player. Make sure you check if one of the plugs it comes with fits your product. We still continue to use it, but the plug sneaks out at times which causes a pretty big uproar from our daughter. We use it for my daughter's entertainment during long trips and the battery it came with only lasts less then two hours. Because the DVD player is all systems all regions, we needed to find something to extend the life of battery without having to plug it in.
I noticed on the package that the battery time is dependant on the size of the screen and whatever functions you may be using so I suspect that if I used double screens then the time will be cut in at least half but I did get a solid 2 hours out of it with power to spare with one screen with a single DVD test.One other thing to pay attention to are the instructions on initial charge:For the first 3 charges you must charge for 13 hours each time.This should condition the battery for on going usage as this is NIMH and not Lithium Ion.Enjoy I used this unit on one screen of the RCA DRC 629N Dual Screen DVD RCA 7" Dual Screen Portable DVD Playerafter finding that the unit did not come with a battery and the battery is impossible to find anywhere except by contacting RCA directly for $99.I decided to try this out as it claimed to provided the same run time as the RCA battery and it did not disappoint.
It is very light, slim and portable. We will use it for taking a 25 hours train to Canada. I bought it last night, charged it for 16 hours according to the instruction. We tested it with a brand new Polaroid portable DVD, it lasted around 3 hours.
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