I’ve got newer craftsman battery tools and very unimpressed with them. I may have to look into the Hart stuff. It always catches my eye when I’m in there
how does the tattle tale work? is the info stored in the battery?Back when I started with battery tools in the late 80's I had a Panasonic 12 volt drill. That thing was a beast and I could charge a battery on rapid charge in 15 minutes. I started out as a low voltage tech and the company provided DeWalt. Within a year, I had bought myself a set of Milwaukee 18 volt and I never looked back. I still use them about every day. One day a drill got too cold in my truck and I tried to use it frying the motor, I took it to the authorized dealer on Reno and he replaced the drill when I bought a complete drill and driver combo. He took the cost of the drill off the price.
Did you all know the chargers tattle on you? They tell the shop you short charged this battery 16 times. and this battery was charged after you overheated it.
I do like a good ridgid tool.All my 18v tools are Ridgid. I register them when I get them and have only had one fail on me and ridgid 2 day shipped me a new version. Same with their batteries, register them and they're covered by Ridgid. I have 4 nicad batts. Have had to have the cells replaced on one. Those nicad batts are over 12 years old too and still work well. I have about 6 lithium batteries and they havnt failed yet and the oldest is 8 years old
I consider the price I paid for them as well spent.
Do not charge until they loose power. They will last longer.A little information when dealing with Hart and Walmart when needing any technical information, just lke you find at Home Depot and Lowe's the Associate's at Walmart will know nothing about the product to give you the smallest of help with a problem or how it should operate.
Now about what to expect at Hart with technical help, the 40 volt charger for my Hart leaf blower would show all timing lights then go blank, i thought something was wrong, wrong charger just knew battery did not need charging their big batteries and just 15 minuets of using the leaf blower did not use much of the battery.
I asked Hart technical about this item the guy wanted to just send me another charger and he did this, same thing with new charger.
Again i called Hart technical about this item again told him charger did not change lights going blank.
Guy wanted to send me a new battery and he did and same thing with new battery, i am now understanding how the charger works and now i just use leaf blower and try charging battery if it needs charging lights will start blinking if not battery does not require a recharging.
Now I do have two 40 volt chargers and two batteries my original battery was a 40 volt 4Ah the new one i was sent is a 40 volt 5Ah battery.
Thanks Hart technical.
Another thing i have found you get better information from just calling Hart and talking to the sales people, they seem to have better information on the Hart Products.
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