Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Exceding my expectations. I've used several other brands of battery powered nailers and had initially stayed away from this one because of the size. Compared to a pneumatic nailer it is very large. I ran across a DeWalt representative in a local store and he had one I could try out. After trying it out he also offered me a good deal if I bought the kit which I did. No regrets. Sinks long brads and sinks brads at an angle. Not a single jam yet but the nose piece has tool-less access and is very easy to open if needed. The part about the tool that made me decide to purchase it was the fact that it would sink brads at an angle and that it is very light feeling compared to any of the other battery powered nailers I've used (I've used almost all of them). It has very good balance in the hand and is in fact lighter weight. The large size of it for an 18ga nailer is kind of ridiculous looking but in function I haven't thought about it since I first used it. The convenience of having a reliable brad nailer that I can use without hose or compressor is very much worth it to me. It does have a larger nose piece compared to my narrow nosed Bostitch pneumatic but again, that is far outweighed by the compressor and hoseless convenience. I have not had any problems with it and it fully sinks all of the brads I've driven out of thousands, all different lengths and into various materials. I'm impressed. I have noticed that my motor suddenly started sounding like there's a few chunks of sand in it after a couple thousand brads but it is intermittent and not all of the time. The 2.0ah batteries last me at least 3 hours of continuous use. I hope the motor noise isn't a sign of a problem. I'm not using this in a production shop setting doing repetitive assembly so I am not able to out pace any ramp up time. In single fire mode the motor has alway ramped up starting the moment the nose piece begins to depress and will fire by the time it is fully depressed for me. In bump mode, the motor starts the second you hold the trigger down and by the time you start bumping its ready. I haven't been able to bump fire fast enough for it to not work. I'm not sure if that's possible but it seems that some users have been concerned about ramp up time. I haven't had any problems. The placement of the lights works great for low light visibility. The motor is relatively quiet but it is loud enough to need hearing protection when shooting brads. Update: I now have two of these and have used them in a repetitive production for about 120 hours each. The batteries last more like 3-4 hours and the new has jammed about 5 times but has fired 10s of thousands of assorted lengths of brads. I almost switched over to the compressor for a large project as these were getting heavy with ~8 hours of use but after the first couple of days it wasn’t bad and we simply kept using these. I would use pneumatic for the weight if I were running a normal shop and using a brad nailer all day every day for months on end. Both of my Dewalt nailers have proven to be excellent and have been one of my best investments in tools. They don’t cost money, they make money. I hope this review is helpful.