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I have just seen that the new Hitachi 18v charger does a 6.0 ah battery in 38mins and a 5.0ah in 32mins. Does anyone else do a charger faster than that?
And it has a USB port for charging your phone!
I never timed my M18 charger with my 5.0 ah battery, but I don’t think its 32 min!
My Makita does a 4.0ah in 35min, I haven’t timed my 5.0ah batteries yet.
I’m not aware of any other manufacturer that has a faster charger, but Hitachi themselves have a charger model no. UC18YDL in Japan that does a 6.0ah in 30mins and a 5.0ah in 25mins.
I’ve got the dual charger for my Makitas with two USBs but I’ve never timed it. I will say it’s awfully quick with the 4.0s I have. Whereas my Dewalt charger is slow as snot. I want to get the dual one. My Festool charger gets the 4.0s charged quickly probably on par with the Makita.
I think Makita says 60 minute charge time on their 6.0 batteries. If it keeps up with my experience that means probably a 40-50 minutes charge time in reality. Milwaukee and Bosch recently release rapid chargers too so everyone but Dewalt has one if necessary.
None of these chargers are going to keep up with continuous use of a grinder or chipping with a rotary hammer, but for almost anything else you’re not going to be short on batteries and I’m satisfied with that.
of the brands I know Hitach is fastest, followed closely by Makita.
I have never cared about charge times. I have enough batteries to go a few days. Fast charge times don’t always mean a fully charged battery. It may reach the full voltage but not its full storage capacity.
I’m like regopit, I have enough batteries it usually doesn’t affect me. I know my Metabo charges pretty fast. Don’t have an official time or anything, but they are quick.
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Best way to get a good idea is have a look what amp the charger is as the new bosch one is 8 amp but that also charges the 36v batteries too which is good !
The dewalt is only 4 amp so twice as slow , the Makita is 8 or 9 amp I think ?
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My old Hitachi is supposed to do a 3.0 in 45mins, but sometimes it is over an hour. On the other hand it does my 12v batteries in less than 10mins.
Craigh9916 wrote:
10 hours ago, Craigh9916 said:the Makita is 8 or 9 amp I think ?
9A
Just seen this today according to bosch they are the fastest at 18v charging
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So bosch says they’re battery charges in 48 minutes whereas makita takes 50 minutes?
Edit: Online specs say that bosch charger outputs 8A and my makita charger says 9A on the back…
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4 hours ago, Craigh9916 said:Just seen this today according to bosch they are the fastest at 18v charging
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Well that is still 16mins slower than Hitachi, Bosch need to do a bit more research.