Just got a new pair of Li-Ion batteries for my 2009 18V hammer drill in the mail. Free shipping and re-registering was a 5 minute call.
Only one battery was truly dead, but the other was loosing capacity so they replaced both with better ones, 3 Ah with gauges on the batteries.
Anyways, for rough home owner use I think ridgid is the way to go. My drill has been run hard, with full discharge runs on a water pump to flood the 1/4 acre ice rink on the pond, even mud and grout bucket mixing, and its broken a few impact gun attachments.
Only one battery was truly dead, but the other was loosing capacity so they replaced both with better ones, 3 Ah with gauges on the batteries.
Anyways, for rough home owner use I think ridgid is the way to go. My drill has been run hard, with full discharge runs on a water pump to flood the 1/4 acre ice rink on the pond, even mud and grout bucket mixing, and its broken a few impact gun attachments.