Craig Bowman
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After two and a half years it seems that the charger and batteries are showing signs of wear and tear issues. Side 1 on the charger was the first to run into difficulties. You plug a battery needing recharging into that side and within twenty seconds the orange light would switch to steady green. Checked it and rechecked it same thing. No matter what the condition of the battery plugged in side 1 would always show up as steady green in under twenty seconds. No charging would take place. OK so no problem just used side 2 for everything.
Then one day one of the batteries would only charge up to four bars in the quick charge mode and then start the final full charge alternate orange/green. It would finally go up to five bars and then full green at the end. The big surprise came when using it. It would go down normally to around 30 and about two minutes later would read 7. Within another two minutes would just die. No 30 second countdown or anything.
So I'll be adding another charger and a few more batteries soon and then I'll send in the faulty charger to get side 1 fixed along with the goofy battery and get another to replace that.
All in all everything else has been chugging along like a trooper. The charger side 1 issue showed up last month and the battery issue with just that one battery in the last week. Considering the amount of mileage I've put my Red 214 package through, I've been quite pleased how things have held up.
Then one day one of the batteries would only charge up to four bars in the quick charge mode and then start the final full charge alternate orange/green. It would finally go up to five bars and then full green at the end. The big surprise came when using it. It would go down normally to around 30 and about two minutes later would read 7. Within another two minutes would just die. No 30 second countdown or anything.
So I'll be adding another charger and a few more batteries soon and then I'll send in the faulty charger to get side 1 fixed along with the goofy battery and get another to replace that.
All in all everything else has been chugging along like a trooper. The charger side 1 issue showed up last month and the battery issue with just that one battery in the last week. Considering the amount of mileage I've put my Red 214 package through, I've been quite pleased how things have held up.