Venom Xbox 360 Twin Docking Station with 2 x Rechargeable Battery Packs (Xbox 360)

I very rarely do reviews on amazon (although I should do more) but I thought now would be a great time to start.I needed a new battery pack for one of my controllers, after a lot of looking the best price for one was around £6. Then I stumbled upon this.When you take into consideration that the whole package is only £11 and the technology and ease of use it has it is an absolute bargain!The package came on time and after opening it, it was a case of simply plugging it in. From there the xbox controllers sit snuggly in the unit. Its safe to say that if you were to put just the battery pack directly into the cradle it is slightly more difficult. But if you have two controllers you shouldn't really need to do this. Quality is of a standard you would expect for the price and other reviews detailing the lights been so bright are correct, although a minor flaw again which can be easily resolved by applying common sense.The whole cradle looks neat and tidy and it has a long enough cable to connect to which ever device you like. Also bare in mind it is a USB connection but if, like me and every other person in the world, you have a phone then you can use the plug off that charger to plug directly into a mains socket. Another thing to note although again not really significant is that the battery packs do weigh slightly more than the standard ones but are of a high quality and fit well within the controllers.The actual charging time is quick and charges do last quite a significant amount of time so no worries there.Overall I couldn't be happier with this product and can't recommend it highly enough.When you take into account that included are two battery packs and charging cradle, there simply is no better alternative to charging your controllers.

Great charger. Organised

Decided to blow the dust off my Xbox 360 after several years and bring it back to life. Discovered that the original batteries and charger had died, so looked for a budget set of both online. Pleased to say this purchase was excellent and reasonably priced too. Got the charger and batteries for less than some suppliers were charging for the batteries alone. Everything working well at present. Would recommend this purchase.

I bought this because the previous double battery pack from venom require the controllers to be plugged in which meant the USB plugs eventually started to bend and loosen as I left the controllers the right way up, So I decided I needed a dock.The dock feels horribly cheap but looks fine when actually set up, the lights on the front are horribly bright and I have dimmed them using permanent marker so they don't blind me as I'm playing.The batteries however unfortunately do NOT have the USB port in the back so you can't play while your controller is charging unlike the dock-less packs they sold. I still have the old packs, so not an issue, but if you don't have these, I'd just suggest rotating your batteries if you're playing alone. To be honest this has only been an issue when I no-lifed GTA5 on it's release for around 9 hours solid, twice in 2 days!! The battery life for all venom batteries is astounding!!!Well worth it for the money, save the environment and money and throw away your awful AA battery packs.

I have had several official Xbox chargers over the years and there has always been a problem or quirk when charging them. For example my last one would say it was fully charged as soon as the Xbox was turned off, so could only be charged while playing. The two previous ones had different issues. This, has none.I have it plugged in to my Xbox through USB (it comes with no mains adaptor which would have been nice) and it charges even when the Xbox is turned off (through my Slim at least) so it is just a case of putting the controller back in the dock when I go to bed. It only takes a few hours to charge up and of course if the battery runs out there is always the spare.The only downside is that the packs don't charge properly unless there is some sort of pressure on them. So if you don't have two controllers to put them in, you will have to put a weight of some kind on the spare battery to charge it. I do have a spare Xbox controller for it so it isn't a problem. When I was testing it out though it didn't need much pressure. I rested my PS3 controller on top of it and that did the trick. So not really a problem, just a slight inconvenience.So overall a fantastic product and one I couldn't recommend highly enough if like me, you hit the Xbox pretty hard most days.

worked fine at first, got a few charges out of them, but then after a few months not playing I set up the console to play some old school games and both battery packs are completely dead and won't recharge.Do your self a favour and just use rechargeable double AAs instead (I highly recommend Panasonic eneloop batteries), much more reliable, plus they're cheaper and easier to replace and recycle.

Did as it said on the informationDoes the job!

I bought this about a year ago with a pair of official Xbox controllers. Battery life is great and works perfectly. However, the battery packs have now completely failed. It wasn't a case of them obtaining less and less charge (my most recent one I could use for at least 10 hours on full charge) they just straight up no longer gain charge or work. The first battery went in about 3 months which was disappointing but I had a backup that lasted up until now. The problem I have now is that I need to get more of the same type batteries with the charge ports on the back so that I can still use the charger. The batteries don't appear to be sold separately so I would have to buy a new charger with the batteries again. If the specific batteries for this are available please let me know where because I can't find them on Amazon