My portable Tesco drill has a 9.6V 1000mAh battery pack. I don't know what type of battery it is. The power supply "brick" outputs 12VDC
400mA to the charging stand which the battery sits in.The instructions say to charge it for about 5 hours each time it gets run down ... not to carry on charging because the charger does not switch off when the battery is full ... 10 hours is the maximum permissible.
Should the first charge be for a longer time to equalise the cells so they are all fully charged. Maybe, 16 hours? Or would this be too damaging?