Just finished a discharge test on one of them and it did 1496 mah at a 1 amp discharge, so definitely the 1500 mah cells.
Yep. I have a string trimmer and its awesome. I also have a 20v B&D Blower, but will get a 36v soon. They are great tools. And yea right now those 3 tools are the only ones I know of that use the 36v packs. Probably in the future there will be 36v drills and other yard related tools (chainsaw perhaps?). I have quite a few B&D 20v tools as well, they are great. After all B&D owns Dewalt and Porter Cable, so they make some pretty nice stuff. In fact there are many porter cable tools that are simply rebranded B&D’s.
Good to hear that they are performing well. 
Also I’m curious what the pack date is on these. It should have 2011 or 2012 stamped on the black top of the pack.
the one i got was a 2012. but my average cell voltage was lower than everyone elses. maybe my multimeter is finally crapping out? on full charged cells its reading 4.12v… maybe my cheap trustfire charger or maybe the multimeter…
The one I opened up was a 2012, can't read the date on the one still in the package though.
Found em at my local HD!! Does anyone need any? There are like 10 packs here…
look at EDCplus comments… hes got quite a deal going for these
Ok I will, 7 packs are from 2012 and 5 are from 2011 (according) to the label at the bottom.
So I only bought 3 packs. These showed 2 bars when I pressed the test button, the rest showed only 1 bar… lets see how the voltage is … time to open 1 up.
If you’d rather get a very good deal from edcplus, don’t open them up unless you need high drain cells
Or even if you need high drain cells, I can get you some brand new ones, even the same ones that are in the pack of you want.
I have some CGR18650CH’s on hand along with IMR 26650’s. Any other high power cell I’d special order, but its not a problem for me to get them…
Not a sigle pack to be had at any of he 3 home depots around me… Dang, really wanted some shiney new panisonics
Such a generous offer from EDCPlus!.
I'll definitely be sending a couple of packs to you (I just picked up 2 from Home Depot).
wanna sell me one? so i can trade it to edcplus? :bigsmile:
17??? Sheeeeet... I somehow doubt EDCPlus needs that many.
he said in PM he will take all we can get
He sure must have a lot of leaves to blow around!
so how much you want for one of those battery packs?
Its great to see that no one has blown themselves up yet to save a few dollars on some very low capacity cells. I hope it stays that way. Good luck to all…
@Flashpilot, very true. These things are a PIA to take apart.
Following the thread, it sure looks that way. Just makes my cringe to think that a dead short can be welded in a fraction of a second, and then…