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Strengths: Long stand-by batter life, low turn per impact ratio, good size for jobs where Ryobie, Makita, or Dewalt tools are too large to be carried.
Weaknesses: A little unbalanced and requires starter holes or it will push screws out of item being mounted.
Summary: This was a Christmas gift in 2006 and I have not used it nearly as much as my Ryobi 18V drill. But when I needed to install gutter brackets 3 stories off the ground, the Ryobi was just too bulky and heavy to do the job well. I pulled out this screwdriver and I found it made quick work of all of the screws. Other units I have borrowed to use in the past start trying to hammer the screws in from the start. With plastic brackets with threaded holes the others were splitting the mounts each and every time. This unit first gets the screw to bite and one resistance is felt it starts the impact action on the screw. It made installing lots of cabinet locks take less than a minute apiece. The only downsides I found was that when putting screws in without having pilot holes it would pop the screws off target where other cordless drills with screw attachments would not. Another was that it is really off balance feeling.But for all of the good and bad points the best thing that I found to be a pleasant surprise was that I took it out of the tool room after not using it for over a year and it was still fully charged and ready to go. I put in 12 cabinet locks before I put it back on the charger. I have never had this kind of luck with my 18v tools, the 18v tools always seem to need a charge when they have not been used for as short a time as a week.
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