[Shop-talk] Cordless tool battery packs - the current state

[Al Fuller]

Matt and all [especially John Innis]:

 

What are the do it yourself packs you mentioned?

 

John Innis:  do you know if those packs have the circuitry you mentioned in
your response?

 

I'm interested, as I already have a dual-chemistry charger, and would love
to get some Li-ion batteries into my old dead packs.

 

Al Fuller

al at bighealey dot org

'65 BJ-8

'85 Rx-7

 

From: Shop-talk [mailto:shop-talk-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Matt
Sent: Friday, February 3, 2017 11:31 AM
To: shop-talk at autox.team.net
Subject: [Shop-talk] Cordless tool battery packs - the current state

 

I have 2 questions for this august body, but for simplicity I will break
them up:

 

Time to repower my fleet of Porter Cable 18V tools.

I have seen over the years the various options to rebuild the battery packs
and it looks like there are services and do it yourself packs that are
already assembled for the DIYer to put into their plastic housing.  THe
rebuilder folks claim they use quality batteries and they produce better
packs.

EBay seems to have plenty of "new" options as well, mostly from China.  I
currently have nicad chargers but the availability of dual nicad or li-ion
widens the options.

I don't use these every day, or even every week, but a couple of times a
month I am working on something.

 

Any guidance from the group re nicad vs li-ion.

Off the shelf vs US rebuild or battery pack?

 

Thanks!

Matt in GA

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