I had this B&D Firestorm FS1202ID impact driver, old enough to have NiCd battery packs.
It has 2 packs and a charger and worked well driving a lot of lag screws many years ago but the NiCd died some time back.
So its just been sitting there in its nice plastic case collecting dust, So I'm cleaning up wondering why I have this.
So I look at it. The tool as far as I know is OK. the batteries definitely too old. A spare workign drill driver might be nice.
Check Batteries Plus they want about $50 bucks to rebuild the ten-cell packs with NiCd or NiMH. A bit rich
I check the charger but the LED does not light. Hmmm. Open it up and its transformer is dead - no output. Look around on the internet eBay sellers have full complete NiMH packs for $15 and NiMH chargers for $15. Still $30 sounds a bit more than I want to spend and it would still only be NiMH, not Lithium.
So I figure I could run it off Li-Ion - three cells would be 11.2 to 12.6 volts probably adequate for a 12 V motor.
I have some 18650 cells. So I got a three cell holder on a lark for a few bucks. figuring I'd cannibalize a pack, and recharge the batteries in my 18650 charger.
Well, I wired the pack for series and pulled the connector from the battery and plug the whole shebang into the tool to see how well it works. Well, it doesn't. My wiring is good and has voltage at the terminals so I open the drill driver... it's a motor and a variable speed switch and Transistor. So you can't get the motor and you can't get the switch assy with transistor eReplacements says they are discontinued.
So I have a bad tool and a bad charger and two bad battery packs. If I had known this I would have thrown it all away years ago. Not worth my time.
I put the tool back together and now it works. Go Figure.
Maybe tomorrow I'll continue with plan B and Mount the cell holder in or on the old battery pack.
No wonder nobody fixes stuff anymore.
It has 2 packs and a charger and worked well driving a lot of lag screws many years ago but the NiCd died some time back.
So its just been sitting there in its nice plastic case collecting dust, So I'm cleaning up wondering why I have this.
So I look at it. The tool as far as I know is OK. the batteries definitely too old. A spare workign drill driver might be nice.
Check Batteries Plus they want about $50 bucks to rebuild the ten-cell packs with NiCd or NiMH. A bit rich
I check the charger but the LED does not light. Hmmm. Open it up and its transformer is dead - no output. Look around on the internet eBay sellers have full complete NiMH packs for $15 and NiMH chargers for $15. Still $30 sounds a bit more than I want to spend and it would still only be NiMH, not Lithium.
So I figure I could run it off Li-Ion - three cells would be 11.2 to 12.6 volts probably adequate for a 12 V motor.
I have some 18650 cells. So I got a three cell holder on a lark for a few bucks. figuring I'd cannibalize a pack, and recharge the batteries in my 18650 charger.
Well, I wired the pack for series and pulled the connector from the battery and plug the whole shebang into the tool to see how well it works. Well, it doesn't. My wiring is good and has voltage at the terminals so I open the drill driver... it's a motor and a variable speed switch and Transistor. So you can't get the motor and you can't get the switch assy with transistor eReplacements says they are discontinued.
So I have a bad tool and a bad charger and two bad battery packs. If I had known this I would have thrown it all away years ago. Not worth my time.
I put the tool back together and now it works. Go Figure.
Maybe tomorrow I'll continue with plan B and Mount the cell holder in or on the old battery pack.
No wonder nobody fixes stuff anymore.
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