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Dylon



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Charging 18v drill batteries

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any ideas on the cheapest way to charge 18v 1800mAh drill batteries, i dont really want to go and buy a $200 charger, so i need a cheaper way of charging them that will work

Post Mon Jan 15, 2007 1:06 pm 
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The 18v DSE drills come with a charger with a thermal cut out (by the looks of it) and is a lot more advanced than the XU1 or similar ones. You'd get an 18v pack with it too. However more universal and proper fast chargers are pretty expensive...
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Post Mon Jan 15, 2007 1:25 pm 
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these batteries r out of GMC drills and well they didnt really come with a drill or a charger just by themselves

Post Mon Jan 15, 2007 1:30 pm 
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Have a look on the silicon chip website,I belive in there last issue the had a look at charging drill batterys and had a kit that you could build to make sure they got charged proparly with a thermal cutout device aswell

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i can only find articles for 14.4v batteries, and it cost money to see the rest of the article

Post Mon Jan 15, 2007 2:33 pm 
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i'd get a triton/supernova for ~$200 and a PSU rather than some specialised "drill charger" for the same price.
you can charge anything then.
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The new AC powered Swallow looks good too.. only $130 and you dont need to mess around with 12v PSU's.. Just plug it into the wall.

http://hobbymodelwarehouse.com.au/ has them and probably other hobbyshops as well. I dont think you will do much better than that for a decent charger.
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Post Mon Jan 15, 2007 10:12 pm 
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wat i might do to save money im just gonna take 3 cells out of the pack cause i have chargers that will charge from 7.2v to 14.4v so should work out fine(i hope)

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