Power Tools & General Tools Recommendations & Advice

[b0rn2sk8]

If you are buying/using 3rd party batteries, never leave them charging unattended, ideally outside. Corners will have been cut.

Like cheap dodgy scooters and e-bikes, 99 will be fine but 1 will not and it will burn down your house.

P.S. don’t store batteries in tools, even when not in use, they add a tiny amount of vampire drain. Say you put it away low and didn’t use it for a for 6 months, you could come back to an irrecoverably dead battery.

 

[Mr Jack]

P.S. don’t store batteries in tools, even when not in use, they add a tiny amount of vampire drain. Say you put it away low and didn’t use it for a for 6 months, you could come back to an irrecoverably dead battery.

Interesting, I didn't know that.

 

[fish]

I haven't thrashed my tools yet, so the batteries might be rubbish when I make them work hard and thanks for the heads up... The battery didnt damage your saw did it?

Thankfully no, it was just something to bear in mind. This was a couple of years ago so they may have got better by now. The aftermarket ones I bought were 5.5ah not the 5s I got from Makita. On that note I have a couple of genuine 5 ah batteries from the USA and they have a noticeable lower running time than the uk ones I have but they run fine in any tool.