i have the harbor freight 18 volt power tools and for years you could get the 18 volt ni cd battery pack and now they have seemed to just vanish. so i went to ebay to see if i could find any sellers selling them and not much but for used packs.
so anyway i see tons of sellers welling the porter cable type battery packs in the 18 volt ni cd battery pack so i get one and it turned out to be a ni mi battery. so i ask all the listings that say ni cd and then they all reply back telling me they are ni mh batteries. so i get a charger and build an adapter for the ni mh battery in a harbor freight case to charge and it just is not charging well. it may be the charger or the adapter i made that is not working.
so now what i think i may try if i can find an adapter that will let me charge the porter cable battery in the porter cable charger and then use that porter cable battery in the harbor freight tools. so can then start getting the ebay batteries and 3 adapters and be able to at least get more life out of these still good tools.
so can any direct me to a place that has the adapters that will fit into the harbor freight tool and be able to use the porter cable batteries? thanks for any help
the porter cable batteries i'm looking at are these to adapt to the harbor freight power tools that use these porter cable batteries. the harbor freight model s the chicago electric model
Compatible Brand::
For Porter Cable
Voltage:
18 V
Model:
PC188
Type::
Battery
Compatible Model::
PCC489N PC188 PCMVC PCXMVC
Compatible Model 1::
PC18SS, PC18JR,PC18JS,PC18FL,PCC581B