dewalt battries
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hi all has any1 tried the shock treatment to revive cordless battries? ive been looking on the net just didnt no if any1 has tried this

Do you mean creep up behind them and shout "BOO!"?

Seriously though reviving batteries never really works for long. It may prolong their life a bit, but you really need new ones. As you have probably found though it is cheaper to buy a new drill!

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or split the battery casing and solder in new cells, had to do it with one of my snap on guns , got water damaged once they replaced it FOC, but didnt have the cheek to hand it back a second time after the same thing happened (battery just happened to be lying under a leak in the internal guttering)

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bin it buy a new one the shock is how much

Craig

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i bough 1new there 50 quid a go its not the price but got 4that dont hold charge & watched some vids on you tube about shocking them with a welder or car batts linked up in series just wounderd if any1 has tried it & as i have a few cordless dewalt tools it doesnt pay to buy all new gear

Wire, crock clips, soldering iron, DONE!

seen that done aswell just defeats the object of cordless mite aswell use me 110 gear good idea tho

this happened with my Bosch gear last year - 4 drills, 6 batteries all fecked. I looked into new batteries but I was cheaper in the long run with ne gear in the end - moved onto Hitachi stuff now.

The guys on the sites though like the Panasonic stuff - apparently battery life is superb.

ive had dewalt for around 6year or so & only went through 2battries but bought some more stuff but second hand & the guy said two of the four battries were shot so now i have four nackerd battries (still have 5 good ones) but was thinking of haveing a go of this shock idea what can i loose the battries are useless anyway

im presuming your using nicd yeah?

the nimh dont suffer from this do they?

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JoeC do you also have one of these bad boys?

I run a supercharger and I don't care the TB is on the wrong side.
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nope,

one of these...

http://www.retrobrick.com/1000.html

:)

I run a supercharger and I don't care the TB is on the wrong side.
VEMS + 12 PSI + Liquid Intercooler = Small Bore FUN!

I want to upgrade to one of these though....

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Its up to you but I wouldnt mess about with them, I had a cordless I used everyday for 6 months or so, mid range make, put a freshly charged battery on it one day,picked it up to use it and without warning it blew one of the cells in the battery, went off like a grenade, blew the bottom of the battery off and scared the shit out of me in the process-luckily no harm done other my soiled undergarments. Had some 24v bosch battries re-celled once they worked but were never as good as the propper batteries.

On 25th Jan, 2011 scott the joiner said:
ive had dewalt for around 6year or so & only went through 2battries but bought some more stuff but second hand & the guy said two of the four battries were shot so now i have four nackerd battries (still have 5 good ones) but was thinking of haveing a go of this shock idea what can i loose the battries are useless anyway

On 5th Oct, 2014 Shauna said:
What that's crazy, you go commando hahaha! How heavy is your helmet ?

9.85 @ 145mph
202mph standing mile
speed didn't kill me, but taxation probably will

That's what I've done still got good batteries just 4dead 1s so before they see the bin wanted to try something to save them even if they only hold half charge they could run me radio(dewalt)

Be carefull putting large currents through dead or unknown cells.

Your NiCd or NiMh cells are under high internal pressure and can explode (the +ve end blows out) showering you with hot electrolyte. If you look carefully these cells have small holes in the positive terminal, these are the the vents to the safety pressure valve. The valve can only pass so much, be warned !!

If you have any tools with Lithium Ion / polymer type cells DO NOT randomly overcharge these. These cells should only be charged to a max of 4.2 volt per cell. They will go over 4.2 volts but this is where it gets a bit dangerous.

Also if your lithium batteries go below 3 volts under high load or you find that after storage tey are below 3volts dont even bother trying to charge.