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Nice! I’ve been debating a new battery as one of my 5ah is getting a bit tired. One 8ah is $220 and 2x5ah are $230 in Canada… I’m leaning towards the 5s as are cheaper if considering a pure $/ah cost…. unless you can convince me differently? Not sure if there is a benefit of bigger cells in the 8ah?
Had issues with the liteflite then went to the nils convertible. Much faster and no issues ever since. Lite flite cut pretty decent initially but had issue with wobbling and cutting blades.
Ive had a Lite-flite 6" for 3 years now. Drilled literally 1000's of holes with no issues.
I’m not the first one that had problems with it. Not saying it’s bad, just maybe some quality control issues with some of them. Had the 6” nils for a handful of years and it has been exceptional. Thousands of holes drilled with the original head and still smooth as butter.
Im sure if we dig deep enough we'll find some NILS issues also!
Do some reading the 5ah has older designed cells and smaller cells that the 8ah does. The newer designed high output cells are amazing.
I have the 12.0 HO battery. Judging from what I've seen so far using my current heavy usage tools(sawzall, chainsaw) with the old 5Ah batteries and with the new 12.0 I'm pretty sure I'll be drilling holes for an entire winter on one charge. It's pretty ridiculous.
Heavy though.
Thanks for the review. I picked up a 2904 and an 8ah battery. I have an 8” 24v but I’m not impressed. This review made me just purchase the drill adapter so I can try it out. Metal is where it’s at btw. Rock on
Gonna spin that thing at Cascade? Just drilled 75 holes thru 8" of ice today it used 2 bars. The setup isn't cheap. $200 for the drill. 250 for the batt/charger. 240 for the auger. Approx $690. I think an ION is $750? Crap I saw new gas augers at BASSPRO for $650!
I have the Milwaukee Fuel 2803 with two 5.0 batteries, charger and 8"SM Lite Flite for $300.
$400 would be a good deal for that so you got a smokin' deal. Looks like you got 2 free batteries and a charger compared to what I can dig up for deals.