Sunlawn 9-Inch 12 Volt Cordless Electric String Trimmer BTE-1

 (4 customer reviews)

The separate, shoulder-mounted battery is great, making the hand-held part as light as most plug-in electric trimmers. It seems to have a bit more torque than the cheapo plug-in trimmer I had before, though not enough to consider it professional-grade, by any means. Battery life is enough to edge a very small southern-california postage-stamp-sized yard (maybe a few hundred linear feet of edging).

The problem I've encountered is that, while the cutting cord will spin freely when the trimmer is not actively trimming, when I start to trim, the cord is deflected into the top of the safety cover, chopping the cord to a length of about 2 inches -- rendering it too short to cut effectively or to "self-feed" to the proper length by the usual method of tapping the spinning head on the ground. I ended up having to stop every few feet to manually pull out more string. I have found that this problem can be overcome by removing the safety cover entirely, but of course this is...Read more

Trimmer arrived promptly and in good condition. The trimmer is good for light maintenance trimming of grass. The light weight of the trimmer makes it good for reaching into tight spots. It is not so good for initial clearing of an area over grown with tough weeds. It is a good supplement for a gas trimmer for lighter work but not a replacement for clearing badly over grown spots.

this product is not worth the space to store it. The battery has so little power it barely runs the trimmer to cut the grass and it does not trim down tougher weeds such as milkweed.