In my experience,? yes.? I haven't used Eneloops, but IKEA Ladda (supposedly rebadged Eneloops) and Amazon rechargeable AA will power it for a short time, but quickly go too low, resulting in flickering display, and then strange operations, followed by shut down.? ?Tempted to replace with a larger tray to use more AA to solve the?problem,? but haven't yet. AA alkaline run it for quite a few hours, however.?