Charge Your Batteries with an Ideal Makita Battery Charger
Makita have created an impressive image on the market of battery chargers, manufacturing high quality products at very attractive prices. You can now choose the ideal Makita battery charger from a wide range of products suitable for Makita tools. These battery chargers are the best products to use with cordless tools and also as extra chargers. These battery chargers are smart ones, operating at a rapid pace and extending the lifetime of the batteries charged.
Every Makita battery charger automatically detects the usage, condition, remaining battery life and the chemical reactions happening within batteries, charging them according to these parameters. These chargers also have a cooling system which increases the life of the battery and charges the battery at optimal parameters, properly passing the air around the battery. Makita battery chargers can operate on NiCD, NiMH and Lithium-ion batteries.
For instance, if you need to charge Lithium-ion batteries, you can choose the DC 18 RA model, the internal processing unit of which evaluates the condition of the battery and regulates the air flow, voltage, current and temperature so that the maximum output is obtained. Also adequate for this kind of batteries is the 18V rapid charger, which can fully charge 1.5 Ah Lithium-ion batteries in fifteen up to twenty minutes and 3.0 Ah ones in approximately forty minutes.
The Makita DC 1804 battery charger works with both NiCD and NiMH batteries on a trickle charge. This trickle charge offers the advantage that the batteries can be left in the Makita battery charger for hours without the batteries being damaged in any way. When working in this mode, the charging speed is slow, the batteries being charged at a discharging rate. This battery charger covers voltages of 7.2V, 9.6V, 12V, 14.4V and 18V. Also, it is important to know that the central processing unit controls the battery charge according to the related data collected.
Regarding NiCD, NiMH and Lithium-ion batteries, Makita power tools were initially projected for NiCD batteries, which can be easily recharged and live long, but which partly lose charge over a number of months. These batteries are popular for their “memory effect”. This effect stands in the fact that the more the batteries are recharged, the more charge they lose over time. As far as NiMH batteries are concerned, these are commonly used with hybrid vehicles, a full discharge not damaging the batteries in a permanent way. These batteries are cheaper than Lithium-ion batteries and are well fitted to power tools. Last but not east, Lithium-ion batteries are commonly used with consumer electronics, having no “memory effect”.
A Makita battery charger is a good choice when it comes to charging the batteries you use for your Makita tools. These battery chargers can be used both as replacements for cordless tools and as extra chargers and they are available at reasonable prices on the specialized market. Therefore, this is a brand you might want to take into consideration when looking for a performing battery charger.