Originally Posted by Richard Cranium

That's an interesting comment. And I can appreciate the apparent logic that supports the idea that the chemical "state" or status of the battery would slow and therefore retain whatever condition it was in at time of freezing. Of course this begs yet another possible premise, that if indeed you can freeze batteries to successfully retain a particular chemical status - then what is the outcome for the batteries to cycle through their intended chemical changes necessitated during load.

In other words - repeatedly preserving "shelf life" status could interfere with or damage the batteries to completely [de]ionize. Ok, enough into geekdom -but I appreciate the thoughts.

Here's the situation, if I have a cheap Energizer trickle charger, and a slightly better Radio Shack quick charger with a "stop charging" sensing circuit, which charger is better to "re-top off" batteries that have sat around for a week or more - but have never been discharged by use?

I understand you never really want to top off batteries that are already charged...... which charger provides the safer way to maintain my 16 battery collection?