DeWalt 18v Battery Needed

[Griff79]

Do you guys have a preference for a Dewalt 18v variable speed drill. The drill works perfectly, the batteries gave up the ghost. Right or wrong I'm the type of guy that has trouble tossing out perfectly good items to buy new, unless absolutely necessary.

I'm thinking of picking up an aftermarket battery off Amazon. Any preference or experience? I believe in buy quality cry once buy **** buy often but right now if I could pick up a battery that lasted a year I would be happy. Who knows my GJ Secret Santa might get me a new DeWalt drill for .
Thanks,
Griff

 

[4xdog]

I converted my 18V hammer drill to use my existing Li-ion 20V Max batteries using the DeWalt adapter. Couldn't be happier.

18V to 20V Adapter | DEWALT

www.dewalt.com

 

[rharman]

Agree 1000% with 4xDog. Assuming you're talking about the 18V NiCads, just switch to the adapter and 20V lithium. I went that route because I really like the feel of my DeWalt tools and I have several.

Shop around for good pricing. Every once in a while, a sale will pop up. Check Amazon, Acme, Northern Tool, etc.
When I made the switch, I found a great deal at Rockler. $50 gift card with the 2 battery/1 adapter kit. I bought one and handed the gift card to my wife right behind me in line with another kit. Sales guy smiles and says "Nicely played sir, nicely played".

 

[darkzero]

I say get a new one if it's just the drill you have.

When both of my NiCads died for my XRP hammer drill, replacements at the time were $100ea. Li-ion tools were starting to get cheaper so I bought a new Dewalt drill & impact driver for like $25 more than what the new batteries would have cost me.

I too don't like to get rid of perfectly good working tools so I kept the XRP around. Fast forward, my Dewalts got stolen, boss paid for replacement, switched to Milwaukee in 2015.

Then all those brand to brand battery adapters came out. So I bought a M18 to XRP adapter. It works fine with the M18 battery but man that XRP is so much weaker than I remembered it compared to what I have now. I remember it being pretty powerful, well so I thought back then. Maybe it just decided to loose some balls sitting all them years. I have absolutely no desire to use that big bulky thing ever. But I still have it, don't know why though.

That's why I say buy something new. Pretty much any name brand drill today will blow away an old brushed NiCad drill (assuming that's what you have) and doesn't even have to be an expensive premium model.

 

[JradM]

The only way this makes sense is with inexpensive knock-off batteries or adapters.

The Dewalt adapter is great - but too expensive to be worthwhile converting a single NiCd tool. If you had a whole collection, that's different.

Otherwise, those $99 special buy drill kits will blow the doors off an old 18v drill - hence if you're approaching that figure with a couple replacement batteries, it's time to upgrade. Technology has changed.

 

[jwilson645]

I bought an off-brand 18v to 20v adapter off Amazon for $35 and it works perfectly. Just fyi......

 

[Griff79]

Thanks for your input on this. For better or worse I decided to go with 2 after market batteries. Amazon is delivering them for me today as I need them for a job tomorrow.
my rationale for doing this, one is time, second is these batteries and drill can be a back up as I will purchase a Dewalt 20 V set up when the black Friday or Christmas sales start. Actually whenever there’s a good deal moving forward.
Griff

Here are the batteries I purchased. They had 1700 reviews with 4.2 stars.

2Packs 18V 4500mAh High Capacity Replacement Battery Compatible with 18V Battery DC9096 DC9098 DC9099 Cordless Drill
Brand: OHYES BAT
4.2 out of 5 stars 1,731 ratings
| 22 answered questions

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$37.89$37.89 ($18.95$18.95 / Count)

 

[whateg01]

... but man that XRP is so much weaker than I remembered it compared to what I have now. I remember it being pretty powerful, well so I thought back then. Maybe it just decided to loose some balls sitting all them years. I have absolutely no desire to use that big bulky thing ever. But I still have it, don't know why though.

I used my new 20v DeWalt batteries and got the adapter for my 18v xrp. I thought the same thing. These new tools with brushless motors are so much lighter and more powerful I wonder what I ever saw in the old ones. I do find the old drills to be more comfortable to hold but that's a personal preference.

 

[whateg01]

I will purchase a Dewalt 20 V set up when the black Friday or Christmas sales start. Actually whenever there’s a good deal moving forward.

I don't know how hard you are on your tools but beware of black Friday deals. I bought a laptop a few years back used. Looked at the specs and was happy. But it never seemed to be so it was cracked to to be. The speaker on the left side never seemed to work. Bunch of little things. Started digging into why and found that it was a black Friday special model. Same model number as the "real deal" but stripped it a bunch of features. DeWalt seems to have done similar things but it's less sneaky about it. The 20v Max tool looks the same as the atomic but they aren't. Like I said, not the exact same situation but easy to look at the 20v impact at one store and then find the 20v impact at another for half the price and think what a deal!

 

[woody 73]

I had to buy one of those adaptors, it works but it is so freaking heavy. My guy in central, "Ahia" this early spring sent me a flyer and in it went something like this...Bring in two 18volt batteries and any dewalt tool that goes with the batteries, and I will take off $100.00 dollars off 5 Milwaukee tools of his choice. You never seen an old geezer run out the door and throw the dewalt tool at him at 60miles per hour.

Dang fools changing the battery platforms, don't get me started.

 

[jbfsr]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07RBMG4WP/?tag=atomicindus08-20

I got one of these. Works well. Used the old charger too.