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Thanks a lot. I've found some older online manual pdf https://www.echo-usa.com/getattachment/3c17b4c8-fea2-4869-a000-e878b9fd3809/filev1_ in the meantime, there was nothing about IPX4, but warning "Do not expose to rain / water", while newer seems to state this is IPX4. Echo 56V 12" Chainsaw Bar & Chain 50.4V 2.5Ah Battery Powered Kit DCS-2500T-12R1 from Echo - Acme Tools WWW.ACMETOOLS.COM Echo 56V 12" Chainsaw Bar & Chain 50.4V 2.5Ah Battery Powered Kit - DCS-2500T-12R1 from Echo One another thing that confuses me is that this picture says max 25cm/10" bar... while many sellers state this has 12" bar. Are there more version of this saw? I know there are 3/8" ad 1/4" - do they differ in max bar length? I know its subject to change, but still confusing.

Does anybody have an experience how ECHO DCS-2500T handles moisture/light rain/snow? HQ T540i XP declares IPX4, but I did not found anything for Echo. I like the Echo ergonomy and weigth, but it seems the most electric saws do not like wet conditions...

We have a more than 200yr old oak here, that was hit by lighning two days ago. It seems one of the main branches was hit, there is a lighning path on that branch without bark 10cm wide stripped down to branching, but the main trunk is untouched. I have to do a closer inspection yet, but I would welcome any experiences with that and what to do next. The oak is pretty healthy - we did a load testing and tomography few month ago on that tree. I understand a general effects of lighting on the trees, just would like to hear a real life experience.

I am using HQ T536 LiXP (now renamed to T535i) for more than 5y, I've bought other equipment from HQ with the same batteries. I do almost everything including falling of smaller trees with T536 - the lack of fumes, vibrations and noise + no need to pull-start saves (my) energy. I dropped the saw few times, bought a replacement cover that broke and replaced myself - the repairs on electric is much easier than gas powered (no oil, gas, less parts, much cleaner work). There are some drawbacks compared to gas - size of the chain, power is still not the same, when overloaded it stops and requires re-pushing the "gas" - this is extremely annoying during backcuts, but one can learn to live with that. Some of my complains should be addressed with T540i. However this month I met a weak point - a single point of failure - the charger. For some reason the HQ is out of stock for chargers and batteries here, my charger broke and suddenly all my equipment was useless. This is something that is still (very) unlikely with gas powered eq. From that time on I am considering at least a car charger as a backup. The other problem is, that you are locked to one brand... I was looking into switching to Stihl, but Stihl has some delay in battery powered things compared to HQ. They finally made something to compete HQ T line - the MSA 220 TC-O but it is still nowhere to buy. I am also confused by their increased number of battery powered lines of equipment (AP, AI, AS, AK) - this is really a mess. HQ had the same battery format up to recent, when they introduced a tools that may work on full power only with premium battery lines, but you should be able to run all batteries in all equipment and chargers. However this may change too...

No, all batteries are doing the same in this QC330, new QC250 charges them just fine. I suspect the thermal sensor in the charger got crazy.

Gents, I have my QC330 from 2015, working fine, but yesterday it started to behave strange - looks like it starts charging, then red exclamation mark appears for a few seconds, then again re-starts like a charging, repeats the same - few seconds like charging, then red exclamation... would not bother and buy a new one, but surprisingly, dealers do not have _any_ QC330, QC500, batteries... I grabbed last QC250 stock, whats going on here? I took the QC330 appart, but it is so complicated design its probably not possible to repair without schematics or something. Would be fair form HQ if they publish doc, if they can not supply the chargers, without them the tools are useless.