DeWalt DC011 Combination Worksite Radio and 7.2-Volt to 18-Volt Pod Style Battery Charger | 
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| Brand: DeWalt
Category: Home Improvement
List Price: $238.66
Buy New: $139.00
You Save: $99.66 (42%)
New (31) Used (1) Refurbished (2) from $87.99
Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 1537
Media: Tools & Hardware
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 19
Dimensions (in): 21.6 x 11.5 x 14.5
MPN: DC011
Model: DC011
UPC: 028877474052
EAN: 0288750091190
ASIN: B0002AJNPQ
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Heavy-duty worksite radio and 7.2 to 18-volt DEWALT Ni-Cad battery charger | | • | Digital tuner with LCD display, built-in clock, 8 station memory; auxiliary port to plug in CD player | | • | Durable plastic casing | | • | Comes with radio, antenna, and cord | | • | 21.6 by 11-1/2 by 14-1/2 inches; 19 pounds; 1-year warranty |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
It looks great and sounds even better, even above the din of nailers, compressors and saws. But it's not just a radio: The DeWalt DC011 also charges 7.2-volt through 18-volt DeWalt batteries in an hour and plays up to eight hours from a single DeWalt battery if electricity is not available. The radio is AM/FM with a digital tuner, and an auxiliary port lets you plug in a CD player. It's tough enough for the jobsite, too, wearing a rugged, high-impact roll cage, steel speaker grills, and weather-resistant body. Our only complaint is that there's no battery included, but this probably isn't your first cordless tool, either. You can't go wrong, whether it'll play at the job or the home workshop.--Kris Jensen-Van Heste
Product Description
Cordless Or Corded, Worksite Radio/Charger, That Charges The 7.2V - 18V Dewalt Batteries Within 1 Hour When Plugged Into Power Source, Digital Tuner Radio With Shatter Proof LDC Display, High Efficiency Speakers, Built In Clock, Fast Seeking Capable Radio Runs Off Of The Same Dewalt Batteries, Incorporates A CD Storage Case, Shock-Mounted Roll Cage & Auxiliary Input ForUs e With Portable CD Player.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 28 more reviews...
 Nice Radio/Recharger September 3, 2008
R. Robinette (MD, USA)
Good quality sound, will run on battery power when unplugged, charges Dewalt cordless tool battery pack when plugged. Didn't come with a battery. It's a must have at the jobsite if you use Dewalt cordless tools.
 Worst DeWalt product ever August 6, 2008
Jason Ledyard (Cincinnati, OH United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I finally am able to remove this piece of junk from my truck and replace it with something else. I've been a user of DeWalt and their cordless tools for some time, and generally love their products, but this one is a terrible joke. DeWalt makes fantastic tools; they need to buy these junk radios back and put out a better designed jobsite radio.
Another awesome Dewalt product. June 21, 2008
Josh A. Duzan (minneapolis, mn usa)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Works perfectly... Only down side is the charger is in the back, so if you have it on a shelf you have to pull it down to swap batteries. Great reception and easy to program.
Overheats Batteries June 13, 2008
Delbert L. Weishaar Carpentry (North Dakota)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am a professional contractor who lives in a small town in North Dakota. This is my second DeWalt DC011 Radio Charger in a years' time. My first radio worked fine the first couple of months that I had it. (Happened to be wintertime and I was using it in a house under construction with only a space heater for heat at the time. By the time summer rolled around, I found that it was blinking the Hot/Cold Pack Delay signal. I found the pack which had been placed in to be extremely hot, and it wasn't when I put it in. Turned out that this pack was ruined, and I thought it was a fluke. It worked OK far a couple of days. Later the same thing happened to another pack which was only a couple of months old.
Since this unit was still under warranty I returned it to an authorized service center. But they did not work on the electronics there, so it was sent to Minneapolis. They didn't find anything wrong. I got the radio back and tried it. Sure enough after a day or two I had a pack overheat. I sent it in again specifically stating that it overheats the battery packs on occasion. (These are packs that never overheated in the regular charger).
About a month later I received a brand new replacement. I thought my problems might be over, but it was the same thing again. As of this writing I am contacting DeWalt to see if there is any way to rectify this problem, and I only keep a weak pack in the radio. I use the regular charger to charge my batteries.
 Forget CDs or radio. Think of it as a jobsite iPod amplifier. June 13, 2008
E. Ongerth (California)
The DC011 is perfect for amplifying my iPod. I'll answer some of the common complaints from other reviews.
* "No CD player": But who wants to deal with CDs on a jobsite anyway? iPod to the AUX input beats messing with scratched CDs, even in overall ownership cost in the long run.
* "Poor radio": But FM stations are lame anyway; who wants to listen to lowbrow advertising and the same 50 songs on repeat? They shouldn't have included a tuner at all. Having said that, it actually pulls in my local public station quite well, even through a concrete building with lots of steel.
* Sound quality: sure, if i listen to the DC011 somewhere quiet, it's muddy and heavy in the lower midrange. But using the DC011 amidst heavy equipment and power tool use, with hearing protectors in my ears, it actually sounds just right. The ideal setting on the iPod equalizer is "treble boost". This helps keep the sound clear over drilling and sawing noise. The bass and mids are loud enough on their own.
I'm not saying the sound quality is superb, but if it sounded any better the quality would be lost on a noisy jobsite anyway.
* Battery functions: think of the DC011 as a charger. Sure it can also power itself off the battery, but I need my batteries to be powering tools and I'm not going to buy an extra $80 battery just for the radio. So I have no sympathy for battery-life issues here. Though I agree they should have added a power-switch relay to fully disconnect the battery when the unit is shut down.
Bottom line: Buy the DC011 if you need a loud and rugged amplifier for your iPod or other portable mp3 player, which also happens to charge your DeWalt batteries. Don't buy it if you want a battery-powered FM Radio (not to mention CD player) for remote locations without power. There are better options in that case.
I'm giving it 4 stars because I would rather see DeWalt skip the radio tuner entirely and put the savings into sound quality.
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