How I Fixed My Faulty Makita Battery
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- How I Fixed My Faulty Makita Battery
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This video worked perfectly and was the most non invasive for me. Thanks for taking the time.
Just wanted to say I did this and it worked! FullGood battery charging faulty battery for 20mins. Thanks so much for this video!
Thank you for the positive feedback really appreciate it. I am glad I could help
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Good job scooby, i also have at least four of these makita batt packs that wont charge, some I haven’t even used in a tool before. I’m going to give this method a go. Thanks for taking the time to share your experience, i appreciate it.
Hi Adam, got my fingers crossed for you but I think it should work for you as your batteries are below the level to charge & doesn’t sound like damaged battery cells. thank you for the positive feedback & thank you for watching really appreciate it. Hope you are having a great day & it works for you
Scooby Rolla I managed to transfer a charge into the flat battery packs, even up to 18v but the charger still rejects them as I believe there is a built in circuit board that bricks them once they have been rejected by the charger a number of times. All the ones that are no good are 1.0 ah packs, both of the 3.0 ah packs I have haven’t given any problems. It has been an interesting experiment anyway, have a great day my friend.
Awesome I jumpered my Ryobi 3ah to it for about five minutes and bam 9.6 to 18 something volts. The reason for my voltage drop was years between charges while in storage. Charges now, thank you so much!
Hi Kevin, So glad it worked for you & thanks for watching really appreciate it.
Good advice never gets old. I followed your video and revived two batteries from the grave. Thanks for making the video and for sharing.
Yay! I'm trying this right now.
Great one, i will try my Makita batteries with your video description and send test result to you. Thanks.
Thanks for the video I’m up and running as a result of your time and efforts thanks so much
Chris
Instablaster
Worked for me. Revived 6amp battery with the 5 amp. Cheers mate. This video saved me 90 quid.
So glad I could help & thank you for the feedback. I think we are one of the lucky ones who didn’t have battery leaking acid or circuit board damage in the battery. Thank you for watching I really appreciate it. Hope you’re having a great day
Worked like a charm after 10 minutes. Thanks for making the video.
Thanks curtis so glad I could help & really happy it worked for you. Thank you so much for the positive feedback & thank you for watching. Hope you are having a great day
What did you use to bridge both batteries? I tried using a battery used to jump start car and that didn't work (used copper to connect positive and negative to respective terminals)
Informative Thanks for uploading. Cheers from smoky Australia.
Thank you smoky & thank you for watching really appreciate it 👍🏼
I’m definitely trying this method tomorrow. Hope it works for me
My Makita impact drill battery would not charge, after being left flat for six months, and I tried fitting and removing it rapidly from the charger repeatedly in quick succession to 'reset the chip' but this did not work. So, after watching your video Scooby Rolla I did not have a second battery to use as you have done, so I used an old 16V, 0.5amp charger which I had lying around home from some unknown appliance or radio long gone from my home, and I stripped the two wires coming out of the charger and hooked them to the dead Makita battery for about an hour and then tried the battery in the charger. Bingo, the battery charged right up to full, and now I don't have to do anything further to it. Your video made me try this idea, and it worked. Thanks very much.
Scooby Doo!. 20 minutes all wired up worked a treat. Saved on a new battery. Kudos. Thanks and God bess
You are welcome, I’m so glad it worked for you & thank you for watching really appreciate it. Hope you having great weekend
Quality, and very down to earth video spot on 👍
Thanks Pete appreciate it
Definetely going this a try, have 3 "dead" batteries hoping to revive..
Loved your comments in the video, it was a pleasure watching.. Even if it doesn't work for me I had a good time watching ;) Cheers
Any updates?
@@P105Mews neh sadly not working on mine..
@@Damaniac0064 bummer. I'll give my one a try and see how I go. It's a 1.3mah pack
Yes, fixed mine with this method. Thank you.
One of the lucky ones. Glad I could help & thank you for watching I really appreciate it
Great video, thanks. Thought I'd lost myself 2 of the 4 5amp batteries I had 👌👌👌👌💯💯💯💯
I used a solar panel and 14/2 gauge Romex Home wireing harness +/- to re-charge a previously bricked Makita 18 Volt Battery. Then the Makita Charger's micro processor agreed to charge the previously Bricked18 Volt Makita Battery to fully recharge thar Bricked 18 Volt Makita Battery. Then I used the previously Bricked 18 Volt Battery and was able to recharge the Makita 18 Volt Battery again :). Thank you !
So useful, Thank you!
Thank you so glad I could help & thank you for watching really appreciate it, hope you’re having a great day stay safe
Defo trying it , thanks 👍
Worked for me 2! Thank you fine sir
You are welcome Brian glad I could helps, you are one many lucky ones. Thank you for watching brian really appreciate it 👍🏼
Well done for persistence..I was hooked
Thank you Craig appreciate it
Thanks, it worked for me! The faulty battery is working again!
Your so right, I open up the battery and test every cell and see if there is a weak one and jump start the cell with another battery and I use a multimeter doing this, like the man said you can jump the battery by using another 18volt battery to give it more volts and then charge this and it works, PS buy a cheap multimeter and you can always check the battery for the volts. Good video and this video gives good explanation on how to do this thou 👍👏
You have just saved me from buying 5 more batteries Thank you
Hi shane, Glad I could Help, 5 batteries that’s amazing mate 5 out of 5 you are definitely one of the luck ones. Thank you for watching really appreciate it. Hope you have a great day mate 👍🏼
Awesome!
Thanks for sharing mate, just what I needed to know and will save me a few bob too!
No I know this bit is going to sound bonkers but I've been meaning to learn how to use a multi meter for ages but never got round to it. Please could you share the make and model of the one that you used?
Thanks in advance.
All the best,
Steve.
big clive did a good video about how to use a multimeter about a month ago.
if you want to know about multi meters you have to check out this old tony
I will try it out and hope it will work on mine as well. Thx for your vid. 👍👍😉
Didn't work. Hmmm
Hi!! What voltage are cables been used?
Thank you - I'm going to try this on mine!
Good luck 👍🏼& thank you for watching
so glad it worked for you cheers.
Thanks for watching frank
Great video man. You just saved me $80 bucks. Much appreciated.
Glad to help mark really happy it worked for you. One of the lucky ones 👍🏼. Hope you have a great day
Hi how to order the makita battery and charger of 14.4 volt
top work sir
Many thanks bro
You helped me!
Thanks
Glad I could help & thank you for watching
Mine worked too... the dead one was at 13.5v and I've only left it for 5' until it got to 14.5v and the charger took it from there! Cheers
I’m so glad it for for you, one if the lucky ones. Thank you for watching I really appreciate it.
Thanks for posting this video theses batteries are so expensive I brought a brand new drill with battery and battery wouldn’t charge I think it must have been sitting in a warehouse for ages thanks
Hey scooby great video. I've got a 1.3ah battery and have tried to bring it back to life as shown on your video. Voltage came up to 17.6V however it still can't charge. Is there anything else I can do or am I missing something?
Side note : the battery hasn't been used nor charged in a few years
Hi you may need a battery that’s like a dewalt battery a 32v battery to give it a really good charge so the charger recognises it a 18v to 18v would take a while to give the power to it but if you double it using another battery with higher voltage the chances of it working are around 80% as it will give it more charge quicker hope this helps 👍
good video, help save the waste. most chargers won't start if the voltage is too low, just make sure you keep them in sight when using jumpers as a really failed battery may short and can cause a fire.
Good point Jerry, thank you for sharing & thank you for watching to hope you are having a great day
Should use a current limiting device like a 12v 25watt light bulb before one or both batteries burn
How many year/month did the recover faulty battery work well again?
Nice one mate
You did well resetting it the thing you did wrong is keep putting it on and off you really needed another battery that had double the voltage in that battery to give it a good charge but glad it charged it enough to work 👍
Worked for me thanks
Could you tell me where you got rhe wires I need to copy your solution
Hi, you Can use any old cables from a old appliance wire. Just cut a length of it, then strip the collar off, then there will be three wire which you can use 2 of them. Hope this helps. Sorry about the delay in responding
Where is the link for that clip wire thing you using?
Sounds good. I'm gonna try it out. I hooked it up already. I'm starting with a fully charged 5.0ah good battery and I'm trying to revive a bricked 3.0ah. If it works, I have 3 bad batteries to try out. I'm just going to wait 10 minutes at a time and recharge the 5.0 every 10 minutes as well. Wish me luck.
Good luck patrick
Do tell?
Did work?
What gauge/diameter wire did you use? When I insert the lugs into the positive and negative terminals to both batteries, mine sparked a loud crack and bright green flame and burnt the entire length of cables.
This does work as I did it last week however I have to go through the same rigmarole every time I want to charge it so not much help in the scheme of things.
Works perfect. Just connected the dead battery for 3 min and started to change again
i'm so glad it work for you andriy you are one of the lucky ones. thank you watching really appreciate it.
@@ScoobyRolla
Thank you again
Thank you brother 😊😊😊i saved mine
A bit long winded, but with fast forward an informative video. Useful.
thank you Paul appreciate it. I know it was a bit long winded but wanted to show everything. Thank you for watching hope you have a great day
Good job!!
There's a safety chip inside de battery that breaks when the power goes bellow the limit, you have to dismantle the battery and bypass a safety chip by soldering a wire to fool the charger
There's a video in spanish in TH-cam that will teach you how to do it
You just type in the browser
"Como reparar una batería makita"
You might need someone to translate
But it's pretty simple you should be able to know what he is doing and how to do it even if you dont speaks spanish
I got mad at my 18 volt 6amp hour because it wouldn't take a charge. I slammed it twice on the concrete floor of my shop. Did not throw it down but wacked it really hard with it still in my hand, bottom of battery pack to the floor . Wack wack! Works just fine now. Been using it for at least 10 months now. Don't know what I did but it worked.
They do say if something doesn’t work give a wack a couple of times it might do the job 😂
Thats a good hack if the charge controller or fuse hasn't gone. But you shouldn't charge the battery that fast as it could damage it. You should use a power supply where the current can not get too large to damage the battery or a power supply that has variable current control to limit the current. This is especially important when the battery is dead. If the cells total less than 2.5V per cell you probably don't want to bother reviving (if li-ion) You can sometimes find completely dead cells in the pack and you need to swap these dead ones out to fix the battery.
Thanks for sharing izzzzz
Thank you
@Scooby Rolla. Hi, my battery only charges for about 1 minute then it stops charging... Have you heard that before? Great video btw....
thank you!!!!
How long in totale did you leave it on charge ?
Danoh Danoh I’m not sure you know. Enough so that it could charge up by itself.
I know this is a old video but for those that have this issue, what happens is if the battery voltage gets too low there's a chip inside the battery (think of it as a fuse) that locks the battery and prevents it from being charged ever again. Battery voltage drops in batteries slowly when not in use and if you don't periodically charge these batteries and voltage drops too low the chip locks the battery.
I would be curious if in this guys video if he used the battery that wouldn't charge and IF it charged as normal after doing what he did or IF the battery failed to charge again.
Hi Harry the battery was fine after that with no issues. But you are right there is a circuit board within the battery which monitor all the batteries in side. So if the batteries are leaking acid then it won’t let the charger recharge the batteries & the same again if the voltage is to low then it thinks there is problem with the batteries & again won’t charge it. That’s why if you are lucky & your batteries aren’t leaking acid & it’s low on voltage then usually this method will works. Hope this helps & thank you for sharing Harry
Does that mean that it's not possible anymore to charge the dead battery or is there a solution?
Those chips on batteries are for overcharge and over discharge protection. Makita has its own battery circuitry built on BMS on charger, which includes faulty battery detection. And Makita XT battery pack itself has circuitry to prevent over discharge upon which the battery would stop working until recharged. So Makita chargers would deem any battery with lower than rated voltage as faulty. But what happens is sometimes batteries would gradually discharge even when it isn't in use. Over heating the tool due over loading could lead to sudden over discharge, which could cause Makita to detect as defective.
When you do this always start with a fully charged battery. If you don't you risk damaging your good battery by dropping the voltage too low.
Where do you get those type of cables?? I have two batteries doing the same thing, and I definitely will try to do this!!
Hi, you Can use any old cables from a old appliance wire. Just cut a length of it, then strip the collar off, then there will be three wire which you can use 2 of them. Hope this helps.
Use 14 gauge automotive wire, color coded black/red with the right size alligator clips. Less mistakes that way and the wire is more flexible, too. Black is always negative, or ground.
dang, wish i brought home a good battery from work, got my dud here and thought it was a goner, going to try this when i get ahold of one of my good batts
Hi, Worth trying definitely you might be lucky like many others. All depends if the battery has leaked acid or if circuit board is burnt out then it won’t work. Good luck & thanks for watching really appreciate it
The Decent Battery... A good band name?
Any update on how the faulty battery is now?.
Can i use a good Ni Cd battery to revive a dead Lithium one? They both have the same voltage
What if I use a battery (used to jump start car) and connect it to copper that makes contact with positive and negative, will it technically be doing the same thing?
Should work. I shoved a couple of pennies in the tool connection slots in the battery, and hooked it to an automotive battery charger's clamps (12V). Doesn't have the safeties of a real lithium ion charger though, so don't leave home with it plugged in, and set it in relatively fire safe area. And don't mix up the polarity!
Where can I find that wire you used to connect the batteries up?
You can make it yourself with any 12-15 gauge wire and male electrical connector ends. Very easy and surely found at harbor freight or walmart
jeg købte en lader Makita fra wish den virkede ikke har ikke fået den byttet kan den laves
Thank you :-)
How long did that battery keep working?
Hi Wilmer, it’s working no issues so far
I jump charged mine and it went up to 16.8v untill one section was really hot so i actually had 2 bad cells. Mine is a Bl1830
Just be careful if they get to hot they can blow up.
if you leave it on the charger, there is a fan which blows cool air around the battery if you leave it to charge it will cool it down. a lot of these batteries over heat and that fucks them up. inside the charger it has some fancy electronics in side wich monitors each cell, when they go faulty its possibly one of the cells that not up to scratch, it stops the charging due to a voltage/current imballance.
Thanks for sharing Brian 👍🏼
Does it still work
i have a dewalt gharger and batt. plug it in and nothing my charger has a light on to let you no but thats not working either?
Hi Jerry try another battery on the charger to make sure it is working if it is then it could be that cells in battery are damaged & leaking on the battery what won’t charge. Hope this helps sorry about the delay in responding
when you drained a good battery you should charge it up and then give the bad one a charge from the fully charged good one
Thanks for sharing
This is happening to two of my batteries with all good cells. Even at 18.5v they refuse to be accepted by the charger.
My 3 amp battery has no problem even when I drain dead.
unstead of taking the chance with a good battery i will try another drill type 18 volt charger
Don't measure the batteries while the are connected together as you are only measuring the voltage drop across the wires which is created by the resistance in the wire.
Thanks for that 👍🏼
:)
No. He is measuring battery voltage.
There is very little voltage drop across a single jumper wire since the wire has close to zero ohms resistance. He is measuring the voltage between wire 1 and wire 2 which are connected to positive and negative terminals. For example, if he performed a resistance test on each wire when disconnected from the terminals it would show less than 1 ohm or close to zero resistance (unless it was broken), therefore no voltage drop occurs over the wire.
@@robertmorin6495 If you wanna get really technical, read Kirchhoff's voltage law. He is measuring the voltage of both batteries, the bad battery reads slightly lower due to losses though the connections because they aren't good enough to allow the full flow of current between the batteries. When you jump-start a car with cables sometimes not enough power gets through due to the weak connections to turn over the engine fast enough to start even though the donor car is fully charged and running. If you removed the cells inside the bad battery it would read almost the same as the good battery from the outside terminals while it it is connected to the good one.
When you do this (battery to battery), you should also use a resistor. A large voltage difference like you have here will generate high currents.
Best way to revive a dead battery is to recharge it at low current until it reaches the minimum voltage.
Resistor on both wires? How many ohms should we use?
You can calculate the resistor by dividing the voltage difference by the desired charging current. So for example if you have a battery charged at 19V and one discharged at 11V and you want a charging current of 0.5 Amp, then you have (19V - 11V) / 0.5 A = 8V/0.5A = 16 ohms
Be sure to use a proper power rated resistor. In this case P = U * I = 4 W
One resistor on the positive wire will suffice.
The wire being used to connect the two batteries provides a resistance
@@lexluger9 I'll let you find out the resistance and the resulting current ;)
Go back 2 the JATC training center....the V diff is not that great, current not that high, good to be cautious, but kinda a waste of time soldering a resistor in line.....just my .02$ worth of ohms law.....solid calcs though....
Got my Makita battery up to 19v but it still makes the same noise on the charger and even though it's fully charged when I put it on a drill it only makes the light come on. Any ideas? 🤔
The worse thing is about the makita battery are that they have a circuit board inside the battery (1). Some times if the battery goes below a certain charge the board refuses to charge the battery. (2). & some times the battery cells leak acid on to them & damaged them so they refuse to charge up. I’m really sorry but it sounds like the board in the battery is damaged. I’m sorry I could help. Thanks for watching I really appreciate it.
It might be worth opening it up to see what’s happened to it or you could sell it on eBay as some people buy them & open them up & repair
& sell them on. Hope this helps, might be better off selling it & putting some money on top & buying another.
Scooby Rolla Thanks for the reply. I see on other sites they say that if you put the battery on the charger and it fails to except it three times a chip or fuse on the circuit board blows or blocks it from charging again even if the batteries inside are ok. I have no fun to change the circuit board so will sell it on as the individual batteries inside must be ok. I only paid 10€ including postage so haven't lost anything.
I just connected it to a 12v lead acid car battery that has 13v and no electronics to fry. It charged to 13v and then the rest on the Makita charger.
You have to leave the batteries longer Evan though you hear the buzzing it will adjust after 15 minutes.
Helped me and many thanks, People should post their own video if they think they can do so much better. So many whingers in this world.....
I agree mark. So glad it for worked for you Mark. Really appreciate you watching to 👍🏼
I will try mine and let you know the results
Hi Jose, good luck fingers crossed for you it works for you too.
Sorry just seeing this video now. I have 2 batteries that take charge but it doesn't hold for long. Can they be revived? Thanks great upload.
Hi, James if they are charging but not holding charge for long time that means that battery cells leaking inside the battery casing or cells within battery are dying. Hope this helps
Best to sell them for cheap on eBay & replace them with new one because eventually they will not hold charge at all. Hope this helps
@@ScoobyRolla yeah thanks for getting back to me I'll buy the adapter and a couple of lithium's I think haha. 👍🏻
Shot bro worked for me.. Lol. Took me 10mim to get my one going.. Haha. Left mine on until it got to 18v then put it on the charger didn't work 1st time I put it on but did second time.. Churr
Hi Richard, I’m so glad it worked for you. One of the lucky ones. Thanks for watching really appreciate it. Hope you are having a great day
I find it interesting that your charger sounds like it has a fan running but mine is silent. Yours also played a little tune at one point. I've never seen one that does that.
Yours will play a tune too.. what you have to do is slide the battery in and out again twice quickly. It will then play a tune when full charged 👌
Hi, yes it has a built in fan to cool the battery down if it hot from using it while you are charging it & yes if you take battery in & out of the charger it will different music. I’ve done a video on this. Hope this helps & thank you for watching I really appreciate it.
Thank you for sharing & thank you for watching
Makita fast chargers have fans.
That’s right thank you for sharing
...how is the "old" battery doing? ...did it still function after the "jump start" as per normal?
Just curious as to how you established the battery was faulty in the first place? What lights were activated on the charger to give you this information? Thanks.
Hi, at the beginning of the video I put the faulty battery on the charger and it starts beeping and flashing red and green and on the charger it shows a diagram and faults and shows red and green lights flashing and beeping showing a broken battery sign at the end of it. check the beginning of the video. Hope this helps
Literally watch the video
What a thicko.... did you watch the full video...it wont charge 🤣
I have the opposite issue with my Makita battery. It's an 18 volt battery but the charger put 20 volts in it and now it won't run the tools. I'm trying to discharge it now to see if it will eventually work.
A full 18 volt battery is up to 21v. 5 batteries x 3.6 nominal = 18v, 5 batteries at 4.2v peak = 21v. So 20v is ok.
Hope it works.
if you move faster the voltage on the bad battery will not have time to drop....Alternatively you can charge the bad battery by connecting the good battery in parallel and to the charger at the same time. Could have charged the bad battery in the time this video ran....
Good point Daniel. Thanks for sharing
Once a cell goes below around 2.0 volts the electrodes become plated with lithium and begin to break down. That battery has 2 parallel sets of 5 cells in series which means damage starts at 10 volts, so don't expect the bad one to perform as good as it did before. Plus that heat is from too much current flowing between the batteries.
Thank you for sharing that good to know.
Use a hobby charger or a bench PSU with current limiting. If you must charge battery to battery Fully charge the good battery in the charger.Charge the bad one with the good one for a few minutes . Repeat. Pause when either gets warm.
Hi frank, I agree
Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
Neither which are cheap. If you have them - great. If not - might as well purchase new batteries.
Too long dude . Try hotwiring bad batt with an old Makita NIMH charger . I did last night . Went from flashing red/green will not charge 14volts to 19 volts in 30 minutes . Did not heat up at all. Will check again later today . keep you posted .
Nice one dude. Let us know cheers
Put it back on the Nimh charger again for about 70 minutes . I did not mean to leave it that long but took the dogs for a walk . When i came back lion was not even getting warm , reached 19.5 volts on multi meter . Spun my drill the same as a brand new and fully charged 5.0 ah . I should mention that i have a defective Makita Nimh charger dc1804 . It does not trip off . just keeps charging. So that is my mule for charging the previously dead 3.0 Li-0n
Good news Kenneth, glad you have got it going dude. lucky to have a defective charger. Nice one for letting us know. Just a warning ⚠️ keep an eye 👁 on that charger as you know lithium ion Battery’s can be very dangerous as they can explode or catch fire 🔥. Good luck with any future projects.
I should have hooked up a timer . Forgot it was charging , left it for 7 hours . No explosion or fire , cool as a cucumber but now only 15 volts max . Got it at the landfill for free but still sad .
Hi, Kenneth sounds like there’s a damaged cell in side leaking maybe. Sorry to hear that at least you got it for free dude
i have 6 broken makita batteries,,,, hope this works for me
Good luck John
i found a way that is easier for me. i run wires from a 20v nimh charger plugged into a timer set for 9 hours. i experimented bit by bit to work out the best way making sure nothing overheated. the nimh charger hasnt got the guts to overcharge and cook the 4ah battery. ive been using this system for 5 years. i always do it in a steel shed with a concrete floor so there is no fire risk. the makita chargers are happy with all my other batteries.
Thank you for sharing & I will give it a go next time. Thank you for watching I really appreciate it
And if you don't have a good charged battery what you do?
Charge the good one. Daw
dont put the good battery on the bad one for a long time.. put in on for a minute and then recharge the good battery. That way you arent overheating the good battery or lowering its voltage too much. Also be very careful you dont hook positive to negative, as that would create a direct short and possibly a fire or explosion. Lithium ion batteries are nothing to trifle with!
Thank you sharing
@@ScoobyRolla no problem. Just want people to be safe