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Dave hit the nail on the head. I used to use a tractor battery for the radio controlled plane starter. I switched to a small 4S Lipo and have faster stafts and less voltage drop between charges. It's just a better technology.
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Upgrade. You will not regret it, </p>
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From: Dave Cavanaugh<br>
Sent: Friday, February 3, 9:23 PM<br>
Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Cordless tool battery packs - the current state<br>
To: Matt, shop-talk<br>
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I have purchased a number of Ebay replacement NiCad battery packs for my DeWalt cordless drills. They seemed to last about a year, some less. I finally took the plunge to L-I last year and wonder why I waited so long. I have two drills and an impact driver.
Lighter, more power, they seem to run forever, no memory, very low self discharge. If they're charged, they stay charged.
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Do yourself a favor and give your old NiCad stuff a well deserved retirement and get some L-I stuff.
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On 2/3/2017 8:31 AM, Matt wrote:</p>
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I have 2 questions for this august body, but for simplicity I will break them up:</p>
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Time to repower my fleet of Porter Cable 18V tools.</p>
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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.</p>
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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.</p>
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I don't use these every day, or even every week, but a couple of times a month I am working on something.</p>
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Any guidance from the group re nicad vs li-ion.</p>
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Off the shelf vs US rebuild or battery pack?</p>
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Thanks!</p>
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