DEWALT DC011 Combination Work Site Radio and 7.2-Volt to 18-Volt Pod-Style Battery Charger
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of DEWALT DC011 Combination Work Site Radio and 7.2-Volt to 18-Volt Pod-Style Battery Charger
Customer Review: Three down-None to go!
Summary: 1 Stars
Started out with the DC911, speakers blew inside of nine monthes, (illusion of poor reception perhaps?). Bought the DC011 and it drained batteries (14 & 18 volt) OVER NIGHT, consistantly. Took it back for another try. Second DC011, six weeks in, not one push button would work. Battery charger worked OK though. Guess where that one is! Back where I bought it! I won't try again until they can guarantee it.Customer Review: Very Pleased
Summary: 4 Stars
I have become very pleased with this radio, when me and my father are out on a job, the ability to listen to the music and charge a battery for our tools is perfect. Highly recommend to anyone that uses the batteries this charges!Customer Review: WOULDN'T BUY THIS FROM AMAZON AGAIN
Summary: 3 Stars
I ENJOYED THE PRODUCT BUT IT JUST QUIT WORKING AFTER 1 WEEK FOR NO REASON. BECAUSE I BOUGHT IT FROM AMAZON THERE IS NOTHING I CAN ABOUT IT...IT IS CONSIDERED "ELECTRONICS" AND THEY HAVE A VERY CRAPPY RETURN POLICY. I WOULD ONLY BUY THE PRODUCT FROM SOMEWHERE I COULD RETURN IT BECAUSE I HAVE LOST ABOUT $150.Customer Review: What I was looking for..
Summary: 5 Stars
This radio has performed very well. I drive for UPS and needed a tough radio that I don't have to spend money on batteries. It handles the bumps and knock's it get's everyday. The only let down is the channel memory. Requires 2 AA Batteries to hold your preset's and the clock, but as long as I set it in the morning and don't turn it off during the day I can change station's as often as I like. I love it. I would recommend this radio to anyone who will need one outside and on the go. The charge last's for 2 full day's work. And all you need is to plug it into the wall for an hour or so and it is good to go. Hope this help's someone.
Happy
Customer Review: Why am I the Power Manager?
Summary: 2 Stars
I must confess this was a bit of an impulse buy. I already owned theDC911 radio/charger, but had been driven crazy by the knob tuning, and really liked the idea of being able to keep my MP3 player with the unit.
When using the DC911, it's always been nice to just grab the radio, walk wherever you're going to work, and carry your music with you. There are plenty of times I know I don't need to recharge a battery, but just want to listen to my tunes while I work. The DC911 gave this to me, and would run seemingly forever before needing another charge. When I plugged it in, the battery charge was fast.
A worker friend had won the Milwaukee version of this product. The digital tuning was great. The presets were very convenient. The fact the Milwaukee product is not also a charger is brain dead. I looked forward to DeWalt catching up with the digital features, though. When the DC011 showed up, I gladly took the plunge.
What I have discovered after a month of use is that this radio is nothing short of frustrating from a feature standpoint. The digital tuning is convenient, but the presets have proven to be useless. Why? Because they are far too volatile. As another reviewer pointed out, the unit will exhaust a freshly charged DeWalt battery in 50 hours or less. What that means is that your radio will be dead if you leave it in your truck over Labor Day weekend, or even Monday morning if you were to unplug it early on Friday. To counter this, you find yourself consciously thinking about taking the NiCad battery out of the radio every time you put it away in your truck. Oh, but that it were that simple! After a week of doing just that, I found that the two AA batteries were now dead, safely taking my presets with them! I performed this test twice, not quite believing the first set of results. The silly thing is that the only thing the batteries are really trying to do while the unit is both turned off and unplugged is save the presets (why aren't they in a small chip of NVRAM?) and display the digital clock. Why that burns through a set of AA batteries in a week is beyond me.
What I find I have done is move from a nice unit (the DC911) that can be characterized as a portable radio that just happens to be a battery charger over to a frustrating unit (the DC011) that is a battery charger that just happens to be a radio. If you leave the unit plugged in at all - and I mean ALL - times, you have good functionality. If you unplug the unit for a short time, you have adequate functionality. If you unplug the unit for a weekend, you're going to be quite disappointed when you return to it on Monday.
My best recourse at this time is to just remove the AA batteries, forget the presets, totally ignore the clock (which most couldn't care less about, anyway), tune it manually when in use, and take the battery out of the unit when I turn it off and put it in the truck. I am now playing the role of power management for a product that has less power management complexities than laptops that have been managing this problem effectively for over a decade. Sadly, I expected better engineering from DeWalt than this.