Does anyone have one of these Ryobi one+ 1830 trimmer? Just wondering if it is worth buying as I need a garden strimmer type thing and it would be great if it could be cordless (just for ease of use) and as I have a ryobi drill with lithium battery thought this would be a good buy if it was any good.

Just wondering what sort of running time I would get with the lithium battery?

Cheers.

I am jealous of your battery sir

Haha, it is great and I'm really glad I got the lithium instead of normal ones.

I can't comment on lithium ryobi batteries. But as stated before I have the Ni-cad batteries and although they have been fine in my drills, they have been dissapointing on my saws (Jigsaw and Recip saw). I would presume that the battery life would be the same with the lion.

I have three 1.7 Ni-cad batteries.

What is the Ah on your Lion batteries. Unless they are 2.4 AH I can't really see a difference.

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from what I have heard, the staying power with the li-ion is much better, even with high draw units like the saws.

(also, I think the recip saw does very well, it is the lig/circular saw that sucks power, but the recip I think is good)

I used my Recip saw with a fully charged battery to cut 4" posts horizontally. Only managed to cut 1 post and battery died less than a quarter through the second post. I was also using Bosch blades.

The same happened when I cut 18mm MDF. The life on the battery was Sh..e.

I can't really comment on Lithium. Never used them. But I thought if it is the same AH then there isn't much difference. I thought the difference came with the loss of battery memory or lack of memory loss on Lithium.

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why are you using the recip saw to cut 4" posts and mdf?

I cut the tops of the posts due to them being six inches to high. Fu.k using a hand saw.

With regards to the MDF. My mate moved into a flat and for some strange reason the previous owner partitioned a room using MDF SO again I used the rcip saw to cut through it.

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ok my thoughts
yes the nicads at £25 for a 1.5 or £30 for a 1.7 are brilliant value although high load tools like planer circ saw router/trimmer will cane the batteries
but we expect that so we have 3 batteries to allow for the charging or off time waiting with possibly a fourth to allow fairly consistant use

i have the "strimmer" with 2 li-ion batts and charger for £160 brilliant equals 4 batteries as you can part charge lions so you always start with fully charged batts you can also 50% charge in 15 mins so no reason why 2 lions wont see you through

if any one interested i have 2 sets off 2 nicads and charger for £35 ono plus postage

sorry running time with li-ons is around 70% more than a nicad
the li-ions stop dead as in flat stop so full power then stop a few seconds then stop so un like nicads you get 99% power then they stop

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Cheers Big All. Think I will just go for it then.

I was waiting for you BA. Thanks for clarifying the issue with regards to lithium batteries

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