> On Sun, 7 May 2006, Tony Smith wrote:
> 
> > I haven't seen a decent charger for cordless tools yet.  
> They're all 
> > 'charge in 1 hour hour or your money back' types.  Except for the 
> > 'money back' bit.  Battery hot = charged.
> 
> Try Makita ?
> 
> Peter


I have indeed.  Give me long enough and I'll find the empty pack plus a
few cells, the rest went to repair another pack, bike lights etc.  18v
3Ah (NiMh obviously) if you're curious.

I've also tried Hitachi, Bosch, Panasonic, Ryobi, Black & Decker, Arlec,
Festool, HappyFunDrillCo, etc.  I've yet to try DeWalt & the
ExtraHappyFunDrillCo.

I'll probably re-pack the empty one with 2Ah NiCads, at least they're
cheap.  2/3 capacity for 1/3 the price, from memory.  Charging the cells
individually would be an interesting challenge.  Or a very interesting
connector.  Which then fails instead.

The tools are fine, the problem is you can't string 12-15 cells together
and then charge them as fast as possible without something going
backwards (like the voltage on one of the cells!).  None of the chargers
even offer to charge slowly, say overnight.

And now they're going to 24v.  Sigh.  And Lithium-Ion, to add some
excitement.

Tony

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