Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

There appears to be a serious design flaw with these batteries that can be researched on the net. The result is you may only get 1 year of use from these batteries. I have about $1000 of the LXT tool line. These are good tools who's value IMHO is seriously diminished because of a battery design fault. I purchased these tools about 1.5 years ago with one battery. I purchased a second battery about 1 year ago. They were lightly used for weekend projects and I stored them indoors and charged. One battery died in February and the other died in July. So they each lasted about one year each. I'm shocked! I purchased the Makita cordless line because I still have a 21 year old 12v Makita cordless drill that works like the day I got it. Two years ago I took apart our 12x20ft deck, refinished it and reassembled it with the 12v drill. I managed to reassemble about 95% of the deck on one battery charge!! amazing! I still have it and it still works great with the original batteries that are almost 22 years old now. So, I decided to go with Makita LXT line when I wanted to upgrade to more cordless tools. However, I use and store the new tools the same as the old tool and the new batteries both died in about 1 year. Many others are reporting this problem. The LXT line are good tools with lots of variety but I'd SERIOUSLY think before investing in these tools due to the defective batteries. They failed when I really needed them and am basically stuck spending serious money as they fail to keep using the tools I have. Makita - you really screwed up.