Chicago Electric Float Charger

[Brown Bomber]

Discovered the float charger was not lit up, so upon further inspection I see the insulation had drawn away from the wire and allowed the positive and negative to come in contact with each other. The nearly new battery on my K2 is toast, guess I'm lucky the house didn't burn down. I was always a bit leery of the cheap looking Chicago Electric unit anyway, suspicions confirmed.

 

[JRK5892]

NEVER USE THIS THING! i ruined 4 batterys on my bikes last year with it... sucked balls! i put up a post to warn people about the cheap ass float charger... sorry man i feel your pain! trust me

 

[Deviant1]

Not everything by Chicago Electric sucks though. I'm a tile installer (part time nowadays) and had a chicago electric ten buck 4 inch angle grinder that lasted me about 4 years with it being pretty heavily used for the first two years and intermittenly after that. When Twisted burned it up (thanks a lot pard ) I was very sad. I still haven't buried it yet, but I figure a grinder such as that deserves an honorable funeral. She'll be put into the ground beside my old and faithful Makita(R.I.P.).