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Originally Posted by Topspinmo
Agree, I have 2.o batteries, mine don’t seem to last as long when new, but pushing air takes a lot of juice especially in turbo mode. I have several bushes still after I took out several, the trimmer has never ran out. I would like to have the chainsaw, but I got two 14” electrics with cords off eBay for 30 bucks which were returns looked like only used once. I think you get can up to 7.0 battery which the lawnmowers take?
I watched guy on Utube repair ego batteries he gets of eBay for 10 bucks or so. He replaced the overheated and swollen cells with ones from parts. Also used the computer module which sometimes goes bad.
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I still have the old bad battery and have opened it up but it just too much trouble trying to find a matched cell to replace a bad cell with. Also you can't just solder in a new cell because the heat damages the batteries. I have a Lowes Cobalt brand 40Volt chainsaw and love it. It can't cut many branches on a charge (probably 15-20 min) but when I am up a tree I don't want to be trying to pull start a saw and it light enough to hold overhead with one hand and not too strong to be very dangerous. I also have an old Black and Decker 18V pole saw that I still use. Got rid of the lame 18V nicad pack that charged overnight and made an adapter to use my dewalt 20V lithium packs. It was indispensable this summer trimming one of my oak trees, I was on a 32 foot ladder and reached out with the six foot pole saw to get to the branches.