In message , Robert E A
Harvey writes
Random wrote:
As the subject says, has anyone here had any experience of the
following grass trimmer?

My old chum Ron used to say, in a wonderful aberdeen accent "That which is
cheap is generally very nasty".

Indeed - and for the frequency that you need a strimmer it may be worth
hiring one a couple of times a year rather than buying a piece of cheap
junk.

I've used a lot of tools with these rechargable batteries, and been
dissapointed in every single one of them. Mains powered drills are hundreds
of times better than battery drills, electric screwdrivers run out far too
quickly and are heavy and clumsy.

That is being a bit too unkind - modern battery powered electric drills
carry enough juice to be useful and can be used where there is no mains
power. And power screwdrivers are very popular with the folk who need
them.

The number of recharge cycles is not very
good: ususally they put a thermistor in the battery and stop charging when
it reaches a certain temperature. That might make the charger cheap and
simple, but it seems to boil the batteries very quickly.

Based on all that, I'd be surprised if something normally based on a small
internal combustion engine could be usefully made round battery drill
technology.

Batteries tend to be rather bad at powering bigger tools like hedge
trimmers so I would expect the same problems of weight and power
capacity/recharge failure would afflict a strimmer too.

Regards,
--
Martin Brown