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Help with Rechargeable Tools?
I bought a (POS) cordless drill. The drill works fine except the battery takes a day to recharge then only holds the charge for 30 minutes.
Any suggestions?
7 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
You can try exchanging the battery pack.
We had that happen to us when I bought a set from Home Depot and same thing.
We just exchanged out the battery pack at the store.
:-)
- Max SchnellLv 61 decade ago
I heard a recent presentation by a guy that rebuilds batteries. His take on it is that in an effort to keep prices low, low-end products cut everywhere, but most of the gain can be had from cheapening the batteries. In other words, you get what you pay for.
There are various places around that can rebuild such batteries, and it may pay you to do that or to just chuck it and buy a quality tool.
Source(s): “There is hardly anything in the world that some man can’t make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man’s lawful prey. It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money — that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot — it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better. ” (John Ruskin, 1819-1900, English art critic and social commentator.) - Wylie CoyoteLv 61 decade ago
Name brand recognition. Ryobi, Makita, Bosch, Porter Cable, others 18V. Spare battery packs. Usually a 30 minute charge for 4 hours, unless you are drilling concrete
- ?Lv 51 decade ago
You said it Bubba, POS walmart chinese crap!
Buy QUALITY, such as Dewalt, Milkwaukee, Makita etc
Around here a place called BATTERY OUTFITTERS can replace the ni-cads, with a better Ni-Cad or Lithium Ion cells in the same battery shell.
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- 1 decade ago
Quality tools are a much better deal in the long run. Your tool should be under warranty, trade the battery in.
- cookiesmomLv 71 decade ago
are you letting the battery completely die before recharging?...sometimes batteries will not fully charge unless they are fully dead....otherwise i would get a new battery....if the new one does it then i would check the drill itself....craftsman and black & decker will replace free of charge in most cases as most of their tools have a lifetime warranty on them....i have found that sears is the best place to get good tools
- Mike KLv 51 decade ago
i found a black and decker firestorm drill on the job site in a dumpster. i took it home and put a battery in it and works great but i would recommend black and decker, dewalt(glorified black and decker) thats all i really had good luck with ive had others but they have had problems.
