[ktmracer]

I found you do want a reasonably powerfull drill with reasonable battery life. A dewalt 14V NiCad works real well. What I found it that Ace/HD etc have a nice kit with two batteries, drill and charger on sale periodically, so that's what I bought. Better than trying to remember to bring along my dewalt 18V/batteries/charger every time.

I've used Harbor Freight/Craftsman that neighbors had and some other cordless stuff and was not impressed. Dewalt/Milwakee/Makita stuff is good from my experience.

Personally I've stuck with Dewalt, mostly for commonality, and it takes lots of abuse and lasts a LONG time and the batteries last years, In over 10 years, I've only had one battery finally go bad and not hold a charge.