Dewalt 18V XRP Ni-Cad Battery Replacement: Powilling 6.0Ah Lithium-Ion Battery

Daniel W: I bought a couple of these batteries to extend the life of my DeWalt 18 volt tools. I mainly use the impact driver, drill and circular saw. These batteries are much lighter than the standard DeWalt units and give me long run times.

The only drawback has been they get stuck in the DeWalt charger, and I struggle to get them out.

United States on Dec 13, 2023

Amazon Customer: For the price, this is hard to beat.
It will randomly cut power when trying to use which is beyond frustrating, but again with this price you know there has to be something annoying to deal with. I just press the "battery life" check button when this happens and it fires right back up

United States on Jun 12, 2023

Lou: The media could not be loaded.  Very disappointed with this battery. I went by the good review that it has but despite having a full charge, it works when it feels like it and it wont when it doesn't. When it works it seems like it is a good powerful battery but then it stops. I have no clue what is causing that.

It also had to be pushed really hard to fit into the original Dewalt DW9116 charger and using all my full force to take it off the charger. It really needs all your energy to get it off. I really don't know why a battery like that with so many issues got such a good review?

By the way this happened on the 1st try out of the box. This isn't something I've used for a while or something like that. This is brand new never been used. I charged it thinking maybe that can fix the issue but it didn't . Despite having a full charge as I tried to show on the...

United States on Sep 12, 2022

Engineer: I have bought one of these batteries after 4Ah Ni-MH replacement from Vanon proved to be too good to be true. You can find a separate negative review on this fake battery on Amazon.

This Li-Ion battery however is very different. It is constructed out of 10 cells (18650 size, 3.6 V) and has a circuit board on top of cells to provide safety and charging capabilities in a regular Dewalt Ni-Cd charger.

The fit of the battery to the tool and charger is excellent. Battery weighs 647 g, the original Dewalt Ni-Cd one weighs 1072 g. Battery came half-charged, but provided very good power even in that condition. Charging in the original Dewalt Ni-Cd charger DW9116 did not present any problems. The test discharge cycle at around 1A current load lasted 4 hours - until battery voltage dropped to 15V (or 3V per cell). This translates to 4Ah capacity, not 5Ah as advertized. I did only one discharge test, so I cannot say my result is 100% correct, bit it is much better than original Dewalt XRP battery at 2.4Ah and light years ahead of available Ni-MH replacements. This battery charge will last a long time.

Charging a fully discharged battery took about 2...

United States on Jan 11, 2020

lewweingarth: Got these to replace the original batteries in my DeWalt drill. No complaints about the original batteries, they lasted years with heavy use. These plug into the charger I already own, work fine in the drill, and are lighter with more capacity. I do need to charge them twice if I let them drain too far, but since they are lithium ion and I have two, I swap when it reaches 2 bars on the charge indicator to keep from damaging them with excessive drain. They charge with one insertion as long as they are two bars or more when charged.

Update September 2022. The batteries are still going strong, but charging is flaky. I've had to pull/insert them repeatedly, now one won't charge at all.

Nothing wrong with the battery pack, it's just not generating whatever respons the charger needs. Simple solution, I'm buying the matching charger from the same company.

Great batteries. The original batteries worked well but I'd often need both to do a job. With these, one lasts longer than the original two, and two last longer than I do. Plus, I LOVE the light weight.

United States on Oct 27, 2019