Bought the Lithium Lazer 50 Volt model last year. Now noticed model not available nor is the battery as both are discontinued. I am not too happy as now you can’t even get a backup battery and it will be a throw away when battery fails.
That sucks. Glad i went with a gas model. I am surprised that a year after they stop selling the unit they dont at least carry batteries……
David, here is a link to answer your question from a couple weeks ago. According to what @ecnook Dave Koonce says, you’ll need to contact Strikemaster directly but supposedly they have them on hand. Troubling though that you cannot order from their website. 
Good Luck!
I talked to strikemaster and they said they have a lot of the on hand however by the time u factor in $300 for a new battery I’m most of the way to a new auger.
I talked to strikemaster and they said they have a lot of the on hand however by the time u factor in $300 for a new battery I’m most of the way to a new auger.
Were you quoted $300 for a battery?
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>kabefisherman11 wrote:</div>
I talked to strikemaster and they said they have a lot of the on hand however by the time u factor in $300 for a new battery I’m most of the way to a new auger.Were you quoted $300 for a battery?
That’s the price on Rapalas website.
Looks like this place may have parts you can order.
That is terrible!!! They should at the very least offer a trade-in program for another strikemaster.
I refuse to be the guy that says you should have bought an Ion.
Sincerely,
Happy Ion customer.
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>mark-bruzek wrote:</div>
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>kabefisherman11 wrote:</div>
I talked to strikemaster and they said they have a lot of the on hand however by the time u factor in $300 for a new battery I’m most of the way to a new auger.Were you quoted $300 for a battery?
That’s the price on Rapalas website.
Looks like this place may have parts you can order.
That is an absolute crime!
How many years of production was the 50V?
That is an absolute crime!
The nice thing about cased batteries is they can be easily rebuilt for very little money. Take the casing apart, figure out what cells are inside, order them up on eBay and reassemble them exactly how they are built in the case. Lots of how-to videos on YouTube about it.
That is an absolute crime!
The nice thing about cased batteries is they can be easily rebuilt for very little money. Take the casing apart, figure out what cells are inside, order them up on eBay and reassemble them exactly how they are built in the case. Lots of how-to videos on YouTube about it.
Right, and if that is out of your comfort level, BatteriesPlus will do it for you.
I refuse to be the guy that says you should have bought an Ion.
Sincerely,
Happy Ion customer.
Just wait until your Ion has issues. It’s only a matter of time these battery powered augers start having problems. Another year or 2, they will need new batteries at the least so break out a couple hundo. I will stick with proven gas technology and my 4 stroke.
I will stick with proven gas technology
Same here.
Gas all the way!!
People can’t actually believe these battery gimmicky augers are life long runners…
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>suzuki wrote:</div>
I refuse to be the guy that says you should have bought an Ion.Sincerely,
Happy Ion customer.
Just wait until your Ion has issues. It’s only a matter of time these battery powered augers start having problems. Another year or 2, they will need new batteries at the least so break out a couple hundo. I will stick with proven gas technology and my 4 stroke.
I hear ya. I have two gas augers and only used one of them last year late season when ice was thick. For hole hopping gill fishing electric is slick. Quiet and lite. But if I could only have one auger then gas would be my choice.
SMH…. that’s even worse than me buying a marcum pan cam, and then going on the App Store to download the app to find out they haven’t updated the app and it won’t work on my 2 year old phone! I emailed marcum, and all they can say is they are working on the app and HOPE to have it up before ice season. If it ain’t I’m going to lose my S. These “reputable” companies are going down hill fast.
that sucks. Glad you posted. Been thinking a little bit about these electric augers but nervous about the price and wondering longevity. have an gas auger I’ve had for 13 years now and the only maintenance I’ve done is new blades.
Hopefully as they become more common batteries will become cheaper for them.
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>eyeguy507 wrote:</div>
I will stick with proven gas technologySame here.
Gas all the way!!People can’t actually believe these battery gimmicky augers are life long runners…
I have one of each…each has the good, the bad, and the ugly. Question for any of you out there that have a wheelhouse or permanent fish house. Do you have or use electric, or do you fire up the gas machine inside the fish house?
It seems that owners of the original Strikemaster Lithium got burnt(literally, then recalled), and now the 50V owners are getting a bit of a kick in the pants.
I LOVE my strikemaster gas auger, but I will never buy an electric strikemaster based on problems with their initial models. Just not worth the risk. I don’t know if they rushed to market or what, but it seems like there are way more complaints/issues with Strikemaster than with the ION.
Which is interesting, because I would absolutely choose a gas strikemaster before a gas Eskimo.
I was just looking at a used 50 V strike master auger. Did you guys ever figure out if batteries were actually available for these? I know they can be rebuilt.
I don’t think you will find a new battery for that auger. I believe they were recalled because of all the failures.
Unrelated but this thread is funny to read through. Wonder how many of the “I’ll stick with gas” guys are now “I’d never go back, best money I’ve ever spent”.
Wonder how many of the “I’ll stick with gas” guys are now “I’d never go back, best money I’ve ever spent”.
I am one of them LOL
Would not touch an old 50V in 2025 with the deals on 24V and 40V models out there, or gas augers are basically free on market place these days.
Would not touch an old 50V in 2025 with the deals on 24V and 40V models out there, or gas augers are basically free on market place these days.
X1000
Strikemaster was a great company and always did right by their customers until they were sold to a heartless, self indulgent company with limited service and a “take it or leave it” attitude called Rapala. And they weren’t the only ones Rapala ruined. JMHO
I have purchased and seen gaylords of strike master batteries from local recyclers. Some of these gaylord boxes are in the excess of 1000 pounds of product inside.
This was a few years ago.
The good about the 50v packs is they did contain 26650 LifePO4 cells. The bad was they did NOT have any sort of built-in “BMS”
Battery management.
Therefore the packs would get into cell imbalanced state rather quickly and become worthless as a 50v pack without internal individual cell balancing.
There was nothing for protection at all…. I dismantled plenty of them as well as the 40v packs. The 40v packs I had actually were lithium ion cells. I am not sure if they changed to LifePO4 cells or added in any addition protections.
My final non professional opinion is they were not constructed to be very safe nor were they constructed for longevity.
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