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Nyko Charge Station 360
Since you have to feed your hunger for
gaming, you also have to feed your controllers hunger for batteries. The
Nyko Charge Station 360 for the Xbox 360 controllers is an ideal but of
hardware to keep you gaming for hours.
The unit is a pretty good deal; it includes two NiMH battery packs and
the rapid recharge station. Granted we did have an issue with the first
unit. The batteries would not hold a charge. We plugged in the charge
station and the lights blinked green for a moment and then went out.
Plug them into the controller and they don't work. No charge. Very odd.
Now the batteries had a clear-plastic sticky-strip over the terminal
leads on the back of the battery. They were not easy to see. Remove the
strip and they should work. On ours it did not, now that’s ok.
Surprisingly enough Nyko customer service was rather helpful, even after
we already had another unit sent from our company contact, we made sure
to give customer service a call and see how that would go. The customer
service representative offered several trouble shooting tips and even
offered the option for a replacement unit. Well done Nyko, taking care
of a customer is always a good sign.
The new unit worked out great and the batteries kept a charge for some
major gaming. Shael went a good three hours with one game and I went on
to use the same battery as we switched up and I went into a bit of a
gaming spree of my own.
When first plugged in the batteries showed up falsely as charged. When
trying them out, they did not work. Trying out the plug and play
recharge kit, they showed as low or no charge but did start charging.
Taking them off the plug and play charge kit, we placed them into the
Nyko charge station, around two hours and the batteries where ready to
go. Ever since then we have tried recharging and using the batteries and
they are now working just fine. The Nyko Charge Station is a good buy
for that gamer that wants to have extra batteries ready when the gaming
bug hits them.
Maybe it’s my soft side, or maybe it’s the
way the company showed that they are ready willing and able to assist a
customer, even if you run into an issue, give it a chance and give Nyko
customer service a call. You’ll be glad you did. The Nyko Charge Station
is a low priced solution for any hard core gamer that should be close at
hand in your gaming house hold. Check out what they have to offer at
www.nyko.com
Edwin Millheim
Have fun, play games
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