20 Most Recent Ryobi 18volt 12" Cordless Drill Model P206 - Page 4 Questions & Answers

My Ryobi 18V One+ charger blinks green while it's charging. When the battery is fully charged, the LED goes to a solid green. However, one battery recently had a faulty cell. After several hours on the charger, the green and red LEDs both were blinking. That indicated that the battery failed late in the charging sequence. It didn't fail the initial testing by the charger. The other battery I charged that day charged fine. The extended capacity batteries can take 12 hours to charge in my experience. The regular batteries take less time. The charge time will depend on the battery chemistry(The older NiCd batteries take longer to charge then the Lithium batteries.) I hope this helps. Assuming you aren't dealing with a cold or hot battery or charging environment, if you have any suspicion about a faulty battery, replace it. Cindy Wells (Note: I have a 12V drill as well. Those batteries takes longer to charge for the same relative capacity than the 18V NiCd batteries.)

Most likely the charger is separate from the drill, but I didn't see a manual online. May want to check at local hardware type store. https://www.homedepot.com/p/RYOBI-12-Volt-Lithium-Ion-Cordless-3-8-in-Drill-Driver-Kit-with-12-Volt-Battery-and-Charger-HJP004L/300981190?cm_mmc=Shopping%7CG%7CBase%7CD25T%7C25-9_PORTABLE+POWER%7CNA%7CLIA%7c71700000044155732%7c58700004615424082%7c92700043235553558&gclid=CjwKCAjwiN_mBRBBEiwA9N-e_qVz_xDgJC6XyW8Vk3lpVppcnSnIzfMb8W1hfIsxGm_YB1LkQIWPzBoCnHQQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

measure belt and should be able to find a compatible one

with pliers

These are self locking jaws and its done up too tight. try undoing chuck by hand, then with a little more force wrap some cloth around chuck and try a pipe wrench around chuck. make sure you turn the right way or you'll make it worse. if no luck then take it to someone that works with tools and ask them to do it.

link to manual. http://manuals.ryobitools.com/documents/2377

plug it in first, turn switch on, plug in battery. if still no lights then battery or charger is faulty. find someone with same gear and test, try other battery or other charger to work out which. If still under warranty take back to where you bought it from.

Unless you are a bit clever with electronics, better off buying a new charger than trying to fix the internal circuit on it. here is some links to info ive found. a new Ryobi 18v li charger will charge your nicad battery but a nicad charger will not charge li-ion battery. http://powertool.manualsonline.com/manuals/mfg/ryobi/p110.html?p=1 http://manuals.ryobitools.com/documents/2101

Try the battery in another Ryobi to see if it works. If it does not work it may have been effected when the trimmer burnt out. time to buy a new battery.

if your pole is getting too hot put some ice on it.

if its still under waranty then take it back to where you bought it and get them to fix or replace.

Check for clogs. Be very careful working around sharp tools.

No, this is a recipe for trouble, polarity might be wrong, battery wont charge all the way etc etc

First of all, the question was the charger wasn't charging the batteries. It's not the battery, it's the charger.

Because it sat for 4 months your DC brush or brushes could be the problem. It might have accumulated dust and erosion in between the armature. If you have not yet bought a new one, spray it down with electronic cleaner insert the battery again and try it. It should improve some but if not, give it a light spray of WD-40, let it drip out some and then try again.

This is caused by a factory defect return the drill to a dealer.

try pressing the direction switch. sometimes, if it's not fully pressed to forward or reverse, the drill will not operate.

The fuse is to protect charger. If the fuse has blown then you have other problems. I would buy a new one $24.00 on Amazon.

It sounds like the battery has gotten wet .To the best of my Knowledge there are no replacement parts (circuit board) for the batteries.

i've seen people buy adapters to power their cordless drills with an outlet, but they had problems because the outlet didn't have enough raw power for the drills. That leads me to believe an 18v drill pulls some serious amps at full torque and rpm, but the exact numbers would depend on the battery discharge capability which varies on big and small batteries as well as they load if it isn't maxing out the drill.