9/2/03donald girod wrote:
"It's just failure of the nicad batteries due to leaving them continually on
charge. This is just not the way to make them last but it is what B&D
recommends, probably so that the batteries fail early.
You can replace the batteries for approximately the cost of a new
dustbuster.

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I thought by at least 15 years ago they would have devised a way for
the charger base to stop charging automatically, even while the
dust-buster(or cordless phone, or whatever) was on the base.