Any opinions on this cordless grass trimmer?

 As the subject says, has anyone here had any experience of the following
grass trimmer?

Argos catalogue, item number 721/7872

http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId 001&langId=-1&catalogId51&productId’907

Made by Challenge, it's rechargeable, 18v power and £25 - Looks OK from the
catalogue but then everything else does too!

The garden isn't that big (100m²) so I would have thought that battery life
shouldn't be an issue but I'd be interested to hear if inyone has seen or
used one.

If it's rubbish, any decent alternatives that don't cost too much? The only
other cordless model in Argos is a Black & Decker one for £60 (bit too much
for my liking!)


Cheers for any advice you can give


R

 Update to my original post - B&Q seem to be selling exactly the same model
under a different name

"Performance Power PWR18VSGTA 18v Cordless Grass Trimmer " and for £30 as
opposed to £25

The url is :-
http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/bq/product/product.jsp?CATID 2667&entryFlag=false&PRODID8440&paintCatId=
Anyone used that one and have any thoughts about it?

Cheers

R

 wrote:


There was one in Aldi last week for 19.99, looked the same, but i'm
not sure of the spec though ?

regards
 Tim

 

it was a waste of money, it`s still sitting in the corner of the
greenhouse rarely used.The battery is supposed to give 30mins running
time but I found that was not so, maybe I expect too much from a cheap
item.
kate

 Random wrote:

My old chum Ron used to say, in a wonderful aberdeen accent "That which is
cheap is generally very nasty".

I've used a lot of tools with these rechargable batteries, and been
dissapointed in every single one of them.  Mains powered drills are hundreds
of times better than battery drills, electric screwdrivers run out far too
quickly and are heavy and clumsy.  The number of recharge cycles is not very
good: ususally they put a thermistor in the battery and stop charging when
it reaches a certain temperature.  That might make the charger cheap and
simple, but it seems to boil the batteries very quickly.

Based on all that, I'd be surprised if something normally based on a small
internal combustion engine could be usefully made round battery drill
technology.