Kobalt 80 Volt Power Equipment Compact Battery Charger Model KRC 80-06

Come find out is was my charger that was dead. Bought a new one and battery now charges.

I have a few Kobalt 80v tools and two of their gen1 batteries. Both the batteries and original quick charger came with a leaf blower bundle a few years back. About every 18 months or so the quick charger would fail to charge with the flashing red led indicating bad battery, and when this happened it detected both batteries as faulty. It turns out the quick charger just went bad, and after purchasing a replacement quick charger all was well again for another year or so but then the same thing happened. So, after burning through 3 quick chargers over 5 years I decided to try this version. So far it's been doing it's job perfectly with no issues using those same two original batteries that three quick chargers said were faulty. Yes, it does take about twice the time to charge the batteries with this one, but that is a small trade off for having useable power equipment and not worrying about being stuck without a way to charge when the other versions suddenly decide they don't wanna play nice anymore.

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Works great

I have one 80V 2.5AH battery and I am in no hurry to recharge it. If I had multiple batteries to charge or if I had to recharge my single battery to finish a job, there could be a problem with recharging times. In that case, you might want to go with the faster charger.

Replaced a charger that was stolen

Works as you’d expect.

The first one I received, did not work. The next one that was sent to me worked better than i expected. Because of me loaning it to someone to use to blow the pine needles out of their yard, they are buying one. It is great!