kanxrus Posted October 30, 2009 Report Share Posted October 30, 2009 I don't know how much you could sell your Makita for? If it's worth less than $40, take it into Home Depot and let them take it off your hands. They will give you 15% off that kit, $41.85 is what you could save? So that $279 kit would now cost you $237.15 plus tax. http://dewaltownersgroup.com/index.php/topic,242.msg632/topicseen.html#msg632 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jopopsy Posted October 30, 2009 Report Share Posted October 30, 2009 I don't know how much you could sell your Makita for? If it's worth less than $40, take it into Home Depot and let them take it off your hands. They will give you 15% off that kit, $41.85 is what you could save? So that $279 kit would now cost you $237.15 plus tax. http://dewaltownersgroup.com/index.php/topic,242.msg632/topicseen.html#msg632 Wait, the DCD760KL is a $219 drill. http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productList&N=4294961544&Ne=4294967294&Ntk=i_products&Ntt=DCD960KL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kanxrus Posted October 30, 2009 Report Share Posted October 30, 2009 My bad, I thought you were getting the kit. So instead you would be saving $32.85. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jopopsy Posted October 30, 2009 Report Share Posted October 30, 2009 My bad, I thought you were getting the kit. So instead you would be saving $32.85. That's for the kit according to lowes - sorry I pasted the wrong URL: http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=122305-70-DCD760KL&lpage=none Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kanxrus Posted November 4, 2009 Report Share Posted November 4, 2009 Well with my current two tools. They are not compatible. The tab's prevent them from locking together. What tools are compatible with one another? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joomla Posted November 11, 2009 Report Share Posted November 11, 2009 I tried this in several tools at Kent (canadian), I think it was DC930. I will check again and report BTW, speaking of NiCd trickle-charged indefinitely: B&D has commercial interest in batteries being cycled more often, wikipedia doesn't. NiCd has to be trickle-charged at a rate slightly below self-discharge rate, and that's exactly what Dewalt chargers do, meaning battery is topped up slower than it discharges. If you do it faster, you start generating heat (you pump in more energy than is being dissipated) and degrading active elements. Once the voltage drops to a certain threshold, charger increases charging current and "tops up" the cells so the voltage is above the trickle charging threshold again. This is effectively "cycling". It doesn't degrade your battery *instantly*, but in a long term you have significant capacity loss. It is a known _fact_ (for decades) that NiCd is best stored discharged. I don't care what the manual says in this case, monkeys who compose manuals are not engineers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jopopsy Posted November 11, 2009 Report Share Posted November 11, 2009 I sent a email to DeWALT customer service. I asked them how often to put them on the charger for the 8+ hour charge, balance, trickle cycle if I don't use the tool every day (or every week). They wrote back and said put the XRP nicads on the charger every other week when going through periods of low / no use. Obviously, I'd pop them on the charger before I started a job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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