Since I first got my Xbox One in 2014, I have had an Energizer dual charging station. It's one of the ones where the battery has contacts in the back that must touch the contacts on the charging base, and you have to use the controller backplates that have holes for the contacts. Lately, I have to keep taking the controllers on and off and on and off in order to get the contacts lined up for the charger to work. I finally got so frustrated that I decided to get a new solution completely. This Insignia charger comes with two rechargeable batteries that don't have the contacts that the Energizer had. You simply put these batteries into your controller, and then you just use the backplate that came with whatever controller you have. To charge it, you just plug a micro USB into the top of the controller, or you insert them into this charging dock which has two micro USBs facing upward. The batteries hold a charge for a decent amount of time, but the one issue that I have is inserting the controller onto the dock. While using a USB plug is more reliable than the contacts that the Energizer dock had, sometimes it's tough to get the controller into postion. You cannot see if you're lining the micro USB port on the controller with the upward facing plugs. It's getting easier as I do it more, but it is worth pointing out the trouble I had initially. This charging solution works with the Elite controller and standard Xbox One controllers, so if you have both like me, this is a pretty good solution so you don't have to chew through AA batteries anymore.

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