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Originally Posted by nightrider
I'm beginning to worry about my Craftsman cordless drill lithium batteries and the multi-chemistry charger that charges these batteries. Do I have any reason to worry?
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The short (no pun intended) answer is no, nothing to worry about.
The battery that the guy put in his sled was made by a company that claims to manufacture in the USA. Probably not the case, but that's my opinion. Lots of junk coming in from overseas.
Another example is the local guy that bought a cheap Chinese vaporizer and was in the news the other day for catching on fire. Too bad that it happened, but these things are mass produced and sold cheap in convenience stores. Same thing with the hoverboard recalls. The batteries are built to sub-standard specs using cheap cells, poor quality and no controls or regulations. You get what you pay for.
There are a number of good battery manufacturers in China. I deal a lot in laptop batteries and have sources that build them properly, to the level that we have sold them into major manufacturers of the systems themselves.
The Japanese cells are good, the Chinese ones are bad.