Ryobi P117 vs P118 Charger (Comparison)

[@fishycomics]

thank you comparing these

[@tauruszuma]

Just a general safety tip. Any person who is challenged by trying to mount this to a wall and fails should not be playing with electronics because death is so final.

[@gf2e]

I’m not very good at electronic troubleshooting, but I learned awhile ago that most soldered on fuses are designed to stop the device from catching fire. They chose to solder it because replacing it probably won’t fix anything.

[@mygiguser]

Where did you learn that? There are so many Ryobi chargers with blown fuses. Looks like bad fuses to me. Especially when you replace them with the same value, they work fine.

[@gf2e]

@@mygiguser Interesting. I consider it a rule of thumb from having lots of random devices fail in countries with unreliable electricity, and having asked repair people for advice when I worked at a computer dealer. I was actually told not to even try just replacing a soldered fuse without testing the parts past it, because it would often result in more parts getting damaged when the fuse blew. It may not be a good rule anymore. Now that I think about it, the last time I talked to a repair technician about it was a long long time ago, and power electronics have changed a lot in 25 years.

[@frestkd]

I have 9ah and 6ah batteries. I use the green one and it takes a lot longer than 30 minutes to charge them. I think the green one have better electronics to condition the lithium batteries to last longer, and the black one doesn't, but I have really not researched the differences.

[@mygiguser]

The black one has a decent amount of microchips in it, and i think it is a great charger, compared to the green one has just more power. My largest battery is 4Ah, what do you use the 9Ah battery for? That is a lot of power. That 9Ah battery is probably heavy?

[@frestkd]

@@mygiguser I have more Ryobi brushless power tools than brushed. The 6ah and 9ah have extra power tabs telling the brushless tool give it more amps. I have the p262, p506, p238, and p251 power tools

[@thebluelunarmonkey]

just so you know you didn't get ripped off, you just misunderstood, the 30 minute charge is for the P102 1.3AH. If your 6ah charges in about 2hours on the P117 charger, that's normal.