Editorial Product Review:Item Description:DeWalt DW9071 Features: High capacity XR PACK® battery has 25% more run-time than compact batteries. Powers entire DEWALT® line of 12V tools except Univolt tools allowing users to run multiple tools off of the same battery pack. 12V NiCd Battery
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DeWalt Battery DW9071
Idont know where you guy's get your battery's but they suck they can't hold a charge and do you know how hard it is to try to return them I thought I was buying new one's you sent me recontioned battery's oh then I get a Email from theses guy's saying the charger is bad what's up with that?
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Lousy Batteries
I agree with reviewer Robert Harting. He describes the conditions I work under as a homeowner where I leave the battery in the charger for an extended period. After a year the batteries are worthless. I've bought two new batteries that similarly died but I stop at that.
It will be some time before I buy another DeWalt battery-powered product. DeWalt has plenty of very capable competitors who, hopefully, wouldn't foist this kind of inferior product on their customers. I'm about to buy a replacement product from one of them.
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Terrible, with charger that comes with drill.
I owned an old DeWalt drill that did not have the extended run batteries and apparently, a charger that kept them in shape. After owning this drill for several years, it, the batteries and charger were stolen. Based on the wonderful service from this old drill and its' batteries, I purchased a new drill w/XR batteries and charger.
The batteries worked great when new, but quickly degenerated and were both dead in a little over a year. I wrote a letter of complaint to DeWalt and they replaced the whole thing. The replacement batteries also quickly degenerated and in less than a year one of the replacement batteries failed and a couple of months later the other one was completly dead.
I suspect it is not the fault of the batteries. but the charger. On the old drill/charger, I could leave the battery in the charger and it would be ready to go when needed. When the new battery was left in the charger, it was always dead when I needed it.
I imagine that if you used these in your job and charged and used them regularly they would be fine. but for a homeowner who goes long periods between use, these new bateries/charger just don't make the grade.
I thought it interesting that the reviews that slammed these batteries were not rated as helpful, but the reviews that raved about them were rated as useful.
I really like the drill, but it is totally worthless without functioning batteries.
I will buy a new battery anyway, and the DeWalt tune-up charger. Maybe with this charger, it will work as well as the old one. I hope so, as 2 batteries and the charger cost more than the whole kit with case, drill, 2 batteries, and charger.
If this works, (and I'm sure DeWalt knows whether it will) DeWalt should put the tune up charger in every kit they sell and junk their name destroying, and in my opinion defective standard charger.
If it doesn't work, it is good bye DeWalt, and hello Porter Cable or Millwaukee.
The only reason I gave this battery 2 stars instead of 1 is because I strongly suspect that the battery is fine, but the charger is junk.
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Consistently Poor Battery Life
For what these Dewalt Battery Packs cost, they should at least meet their rated life. We have never gotten the kind of battery life that the ratings would make you expect. And neither has anyone else that we know. We are switching to Porter Cable, Bosch, Rigid and Ryobi. For the Dewalt cordless that we have, we are going to try non-Dewalt replacements as they cannot be any worse and they are a heck of a lot cheaper.