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Product Description
Volts: 7.2 - 18, Battery Charging Time (hrs.): 1, Compatible With: DeWalt Batteries, LED Indicators: Yes, Thermal Protector: Yes, Automatic Tune-Up: Yes
Product Review
This is an amazing little charger that literally breathes new life into your failing DeWalt batteries. It revitalizes everything from 9.6 volts through the big 18-volters, but what's so great about this charger is that not only can it be used as a standard quick charger, but if you leave a worn-down battery in for four to 10 hours, the charger conditions the battery with a tune-up mode, and at completion, it automatically converts to trickle charge, so you'll never damage a battery by leaving it in the charger too long. Diagnostics with LED indicators give you the battery status at a glance: charged, charging, power line problem, replace pack, and battery too hot or too cold. It's got a small footprint, which is always a plus, and the price is look-twice-and-rub-your-eyes cheap.--Kris Jensen-Van Heste
Customer Review:A1Q534TEUAJFFK
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Summary: Another satisfied firestorm 18V user...
Just got this charger (the black one pictured here - not the updated yellow model) for my old B&D firestorm 18V drill as I was desperate. I really like this old drill and didn't want to sort through all of the junk drills on the market today to try to find a good one and decided to risk it since the cost is not bad. I had read other reviews which said that it would work on firestorm 18V batteries. Well it does work, and great and I'm really pleased. This brought one of my dead ps145 batteries back to life, and works great on a new ps145 battery also. Very seriously thinking about buying a second one. Five stars!
Customer Review:A1SSYJN2MGG3ZG
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Summary: Firestorm PS145 Type 3 18V Battery owners BEWARE
The charger works great and the seller I got it from shipped it on time. However, this review is for anyone that owns a Firestorm PS145 18V battery. Just beware.
I bought this charger and said battery (/catalog/drawimage.php?image=http://www.buybymail.com/Black-Decker-PS145-18-Volt-Battery/dp/B0000302V2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=hi&qid=1281753974&sr=8-1) for my father who recently told me that his Firestorm battery and charger were fried (though it had been busted for a few years but I was not home at the time as I was stationed in Japan). All items arrived promptly and in great shape. However, the PS145 battery DOES NOT fit into the charger (more on this in a bit). Prior to buying this charger and battery I went through almost every single review I could find (I originally started from the PS180 charger page that led me to this charger) and nothing suggested that this battery would not work with this charger so I was in for a surprise.
At first I thought maybe one of the items I ordered may have been dead on arrival so I had my brother bring in his 18V Dewalt battery to check the new charger. Charger lit up so I knew it was working fine. However, since he only uses Dewalt and we only have this one B&D battery, I had to find a way to make sure the battery wasn't faulty. So I grabbed some copper wire, stripped the tips and basically just made an extension to connect to the battery and the charger lit up. So now I know both items are working fine. I compared the Dewalt and B&D battery and it was almost the same. (BTW, the 18v Dewalt battery works in the Firestorm drill; it just won't latch) The only difference being the notch at the stem/post of the battery. The Dewalt was centered but the B&D was off to the side. And making sure that the notch was not actually needed, I sawed it off. Now it fit a lot better but it still won't charge. Just so happens that my brother has a spare DW9116 charger that he isn't using but here's the thing. I put the B&D battery in it and it actually charges. However, I put it into the exact same charger that I just bought, it doesn't. The only difference between the one I bought and my brother's backup charger was the year it was manufactured. His was 2007 and the new one was 2010. Other than the date on the bottom of the charger, it was exactly the same yet it charges in the older one but not the newer one. Anyone that knows why please leave a comment. I am not exactly tool savvy.
To summarize:
18V DeWalt charges in 2007 DW9116 Charger and 2010 DW9116 Charger (obviously, since it was made for it)
18V B&D PS145 Type 3 (with the notch removed) charges only in 2007 DW9116 Charger but NOT the newly ordered 2010 DW9116 Charger.
*Also note, the B&D battery fits like the Dewalt battery in the 2007 charger but is still tight in the newly ordered one. Dewalt fits the same in both chargers.
My guess, for some weird reason, is that the contacts still aren't touching in the new charger. I don't know how this is possible with what I already described. So for now we are using my brother's charger and the new one we just bought is now his backup, but if it really comes down to it, I'll probably just jury rig an extension of the charger contacts.
Customer Review:A1AMRAJP3AC0OE
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Summary: Work OK
I inherited a Firestorm drill and a box full of batteries but the Black & Decker charger that was in the box was shot and would not charge any of the batteries. After reading some reviews, I went ahead and purchased this charger to see if it would work on any of the old batteries.
The first couple batteries I tried were giving me the fast flash indicator which means throw them away and buy new ones. The rest of them all took a charge but on a couple of them, the charge would not last more than a few minutes. I tried chaging these overnight, and the charge lasted longer, but not much longer. On three of the batteries they took a full charge and the charge lasts for a long time. It seems the more I discharge and recharge these used batteries, the longer the charge lasts.
My only complaint is the Firestorm batteries fit very tightly into the charging socket in the bottom of the charger, and I have a dickens of a time getting the battery back out of the charger. This may be caused by some slight difference in size between the Dewalt and Firestorm batteries. It works fine, does what it is supposed to, and I would probably buy another one if anything happened to this one.
Customer Review:A3S6BXKXJUKMXV
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Summary: this one is out in my book
I bought two of these here about six months ago and today a firestorm battery killed both of them. I did buy another from a co worker today but beware of this one.
Customer Review:AO6UPF2DQI4BF
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Summary: GREAT ITEM
This charger saved my battery. I have four 18V batteries. Three worked well, but one was dead. It showed charged but would not move the drill or the saw. I charged the "dead" battery with this charger and just as promised, the battery was brought back to life. Not sure how many charges I will get out of the "dead" battery, but one is more than I had. The cost of this item more than pays for the upgrade.
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