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originel · September 18th, 2004, 03:05 PM

DON'T BUY ANYTHING YET! sorry about the caps but this is important. I also have a firestorm 14.4v drill and the same thing happened to me, but this actually applies to any drill with that type of charger. What causes this to happen is a battery dies and ends up pulling too much current through the charger and then kills the charger. The reason you went through 3 chargers out is not because of bad chargers, but a bad battery that killed the chargers.

you obviously will need a new charger, but first determine which battery is bad (if not both) and get a replacement for that too. Go to www.dewaltservicenet.com to get a new one. Chargers are around $10 and batteries are around $35.

September 18th, 2004, 03:05 PM	#5 (permalink)
originel I am a banana! Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Texas Tech Posts: 3,921	DON'T BUY ANYTHING YET! sorry about the caps but this is important. I also have a firestorm 14.4v drill and the same thing happened to me, but this actually applies to any drill with that type of charger. What causes this to happen is a battery dies and ends up pulling too much current through the charger and then kills the charger. The reason you went through 3 chargers out is not because of bad chargers, but a bad battery that killed the chargers. you obviously will need a new charger, but first determine which battery is bad (if not both) and get a replacement for that too. Go to www.dewaltservicenet.com to get a new one. Chargers are around $10 and batteries are around $35.