Battery Powered Tools Do Have Their Drawbacks

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As the owners of  The Tool Recyclers,we have found that battery tools(cordless) do have their drawbacks. As the years of technology have increased to make better tools, it seems that the various tool companies that once stood behind their products, now stand in front of them. Let me explain what I mean by that statement, I will not use the name of the companies but will describe the colors of the tools.
First example will be a big yellow tool - where a battery charger had been recalled for a defect,the company said it would not have affected the batteries that were charged even though it had melted a brand new battery in it but they would replace 2 out of the 7 or 8 new batteries that had been charged leaving the owner of these batteries the cost to replace the rest as the defective charger did affect the brand new batteries. We have also found that the Lithium batteries that suppose to hold a charge for 18mths or longer. That are brand new come out of the package and the charger reads their defective as they had only one third of the voltage - apparently these batteries had sat on the shelf to long. This is two of the main problems we have found with these tools.
Another example would be the big red tools - where contractors depend on their tools in all kinds of conditions but if used in various conditions and they become defective, the batteries may or may not be covered by the warranty/guarantee because of wet conditions. Plumbers as an example would be out the batteries as most contractors buy tools because of reliability and the reputation of the tool.They depend on their tools to do the job for them in all kinds of conditions.
The next example would be the max voltage in a variety of the tool companies,where they advertise the tool at a higher voltage then the normal working voltage, since batteries are charged at a higher voltage and are actually discharged when they get to their nominal voltage. Ex: the 12Vmax is actually a 10.8V and is really no different tool or battery then the original.
Basically as we see it these above examples are the companies misleading the consumers as to what they are really buying. Read the fine print before buying, become educated in the tool companies factual manipulations.
Big businesses have made us consumers not re-users of durable high quality tools!!!!!