dewalt drill european plug??

[USMCdodge]

Got a cordless drill for free today but the plug in for the charger was a european plug.
I had an extra power cord about the same size from an old printer so i cut the cords and soldered them.
so now i can plug it into the wall. a red light comes on on the charger and blinks weather the battery is in or not. but its not charging the battery

anybody know weather the problem lies in the charger or the battery. i would think the battery is done for but Im not sure.

 

[paranoid56]

probably lies with the fact that European plugs are 220v
check what the input voltage is on that charger

 

[USMCdodge]

all markings have been rubbed off except those ones on the charger but that doesn't have the input voltage on it.

 

[MBfreak]

IF it is indeed a european charger you can try like this :

Identify the ground wire. It will be a yellow/green wire.
On anything made for europe after 1980 this is true.
Connect the yellow/green wire to ground.

A european charger WILL work on 220 V. May also work on 110 V If the frequency is 50 or 60 Hz will not matter ( almost).

Connect the two remaining wires to 110/127 V and check if the charger works ( you say you have done this)

If it does not work, connect the two remaining wires to 220/240 V and check if the charger works.

A hint can be the weight of the unit. If is is less than 0,5 kg ( 1 lb) it is most likely a modern charger with no mains frequency transformer. Then it is likely to work on 100 to 250 V AC.

If it is a bit heavier it has a power frequency transformer and will feel "heavy" compared to its physical size.

Chargers rarely fail. Batteris ALWAYS fail, most sooner, some later.

Ola

 

[nehog]

The plug you show is a 220 volt one. So the charger is almost certainly a 220 volt charger, hence it won't (typically) work on 120 volts.

Two ideas, (being an electrical guy) would be to open the charger and see if there is either a 120/220 switch or a terminal for 120 volts. Possibly there is, and that would quickly solve your problem. Second idea is to get a small 120 to 240 stepup transformer. I've a box full of them so that would be trivial for me, but any isolated 120 to 120 transformer can be used in a boost auto-transformer configuration to give you 240 volts (the 220 charger will work just find on 240 volts).

 

[Norcal]

Buy a new charger, not worth the hassle to deal w/ small foreign items, & no NTRL labeling to use them here either.

NTRL: Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory, such as UL, ETL.

 

[Richard Cranium]

I think your FREE just ran out, either buy a different charger or get to work on seeing if you can adapt it to work...

 

[shoturtle]

I think the DeWalt chargers do not support dual voltage. Not to many brands have chargers that support dual voltage. I have a US model changer for my bosch and have to get converter to step it down to 110 in Germany. It is allot harder to step up to 220 from 110. You are better off looking on flea bay to find a 110v charger.

 

[USMCdodge]

Ok easy. so all i need is a new charger, battery and drill! glad i got the case for free.

 

[shoturtle]

That is all you need to get. And you are set with the new drill and battery. Now if that is a Ni Cad battery. You might have to invest in some new ones depending on the uses it has seen.

 

[bsaint]

The dewalt drill charger at work does not work on 220v systems. I dont know if its the other way around also.