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li-ion batteries. After 6 months you're lucky if they hold 1/2 a charge. I've tried 2 of the slide batteries in black and 1 silver series-- they're all junk. Using the firestorm sawzall, a fully charged 6 month old silver series battery won't cut thru 3-2x4's without dying. Wake up B&D-build a decent battery. Have 3 different batteries and even with the better (orange) charger They don't hold a candle to my Makita's 18 v with 1.5 ahm.
It is unfortunate that these batteries loose their charge so quickly. Come on B & D, battery technology has advanced for other companies. I always keep a spare with me because I know whatever tool I'm using will run out of "juice" after 10 minutes.
I'll only buy B&D as a throw-away tool. That's what I did. :) I'd rather have quality tools, though. I bought an 18V B&D cordless drill kit about five years ago, and built a house with it. When the batteries finally bought the farm, I thought about just buying a new battery. Why buy one battery for $40 when you can buy a cordless drill kit at china*mart for $69, and get two batteries plus a new drill-driver. When you spend 100-150k building a house, cheap junk that gets the job done is okay by me. Wish I could buy a Bosch cordless drill.
(Subfloor screwing, drywall, metal roofing, etc). However, let me tell you: the new drill-driver is a POS compared to the version from 5 years ago. It would be the bomb. My older model has torque settings that go up in 2-pt increments up to 22, and that feature works fairly poorly, but the new one only has 6 settings, and I think overall, the quality is much worse.
Had one battery finally decide not to power up enough anymore, so this is a replacement. I've had tools that use these batteries for about 5 years now. This is a replacement one and I sure can't complain how long they last. I love my tools that use these batteries; easy, lightweight, and long lasting. I do yard maintenance every week and the tools I have that use these batteries are so handy.
We used to have a Home Depot brand hedge trimmer and it was junk. My original batteries are now five years old and one was getting weak on run time on a charge. I got this battery for our Black and Decker hedge trimmer. These batteries are exceptional in how much energy they hold and in keeping their charge. The batteries pooped out in about a year and were over twice the cost to replace and the new ones were junk too, plus their run time was less than half. I can run about an hour on a battery and that is a lot of work.
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