Recommendations on Recharging A Newly Purchased Ryobi Cordless Drill Battery

When your newRyobi Cordless Drill Battery arrives in your mailbox, you pretty much assume that you will need to charge it fully before using it. There's no way around it, a dead battery can't be used without first charging it. However, sometimes there will be a battery pack that just doesn't agree with this methodology, and if you ever have had the pleasure of common sense falling on its own head, then you know how frustrating problems like these are..

Most of the time, well, pretty much all the time nowadays, companies make a practice of not mailing fully charged batteries. Shipping a fully charged pack is a potential liability to them, and in this sue-or-be-sued type world we live in, companies really have to minimize risk any way they can. To control this issue, they will often only ship a battery pack that contains a small charge. If there is a charge on your battery, it is most likely a test charge quality control uses to see if the pack is working.

This 'test charge' can sometimes cause problems with different drill battery chargers. People have reported cases of drill battery chargers refusing to charge new packs. You too may have encountered this before. When putting in a new battery, the usual light would turn on, but as quick as it had come on, it would turn off.

The good news is, the fix to this issue is easy. Put the pack on your drill, run it down, and then put it back into the charger. If you have never had this problem, consider yourself lucky and of course, now prepared!!