Simplest fix on TH-cam. My battery showed 2+ volts after drilling 7/64" holes. Charged for 2+ min. using 2 amp on my 12 volt auto battery charger. then battery showed 14+ volts. Plugged it into Ryobi battery charger and green light came ON!!! Covered holes with black electrical tape. Thanks!
This is fantastic. Over 1K 'Likes' and loads more views says that this battery charger from RYOBI is more the problem than the battery. I was so dismayed that my 1.5 amp 18 Volt lithium battery was SOL on the charger... My Makita 18V lithium battery charger gives a dead signal on one of three of my cordless tool batteries. BUT, the battery gives plenty of power to a jig/recipricating saw and circular saw as well, go figure. With so many peeps going 'off-grid' this is unacceptable in the real world of design, manufacturing, merchandising, reuse, repurpose, recyle v landfill.
I had a Ryobi 18 V battery that sat in my garage for over 18 months that would not take a charge. The "Fix" was fast...easy & safe. I used my 12VDC trickle charger ..held the "+" & the "- " cables to the battery posts for slightly over 2 minutes. I then put the battery into the Ryobi battery charger. The charger "Testing" cycle ran a little longer than normal then it started the charging cycle ! I did not do any disassembly ...I didn't drill any holes !
Worked! I did not have a trickle charger so I used another good 18v battery. Took about two minutes to take a battery from zero to ten volts at which point the charger recognized the battery again and charged it to 18v. I filled the holes with some hot glue and covered with electrical tape. Thanks!
Just did this today - 4-24-21. Drilled the holes, connected like terminals to a freshly charged battery and held in place for 3 minutes. Connected the"dead" battery to the charger and it fully charged in 30 minutes!! I saved my son about 40 bucks for a new battery! I put a small piece of duct tape over each of the drilled holes and all is good!!
Did as you instructed, used a DC regulated voltage power supply.. from charged for 2 minutes. checked with voltmeter, from 1.5v went to 11v and is now charging beautifully! best video and instruction I've seen in a long time. Thank You
Helpful to many I'm sure but you don't need to drill holes in your battery. There are 4 Torx screws on top of the battery with tamper resistant heads. Just buy the right bit and unscrew them.
EXACTLY!!!!! I'm not drilling into my battery case!!!!!!! Just use the correct tool to disassemble the battery case and access the entire battery stack!!!!! You can then test each individual cell to see which one is bad and replace it with a working cell and voila!!! Working battery again!!!!!!
What I did is bring a good screw driver and popped the little notch in the middle of the tamper proof screw and were able to open it with a regular torx bit
Nicely done. I opened mine up and used a working battery to bring voltage up. Same idea basically, to get the Intelliport to charge. Next time around, I'll probably use your drill method. What a dumb design, huh? You'd think Ryobi would have a reset button! Sheesh
Thanks a bunch! I was trying a different TH-cam hack to insert then remove, insert & remove to get a wee little charge each time. After an hour for one pack no dice. However, after drilling holes in it, I did find after 20 insertions it bumped up .03 V. So your method is quick and easy. Saved 2 batteries and I used the start option For 30 seconds on my car battery charger instead of charge to get the voltage from three and 4 V up to 14. I think I’ll use black RTV to fill in the holes. And I’ll set a reminder to charge my packs every month or so. Great video and much appreciated!
This good to learn. I had this issue and I had seen something like this before. I kind of jumped “sparked “ the terminals, and it woke up the battery. Then it charges okay. Great video.
Will it start charging like normal again after that fix? How many times are you having to jump start the battery? I have a few batteries that are acting up. Anxious to try this.
Good video. I have been fixing many One+ batteries this way. actually I am removing the batteries and not drilling. Sometimes I have a bad cell so I can test down to the cell level that way. I am tired of having to fix them. My aftermarket 6ah batteries never die like the Ryobi ones do. Must be a BMS logic problem. Each time I jump the battery for about 45 seconds they revive enough to indicate voltage on the pedistal where it indicated 1v or less prior to jumping it. Out of 6 that I have revived one has cel damage and I am going to use the 18650 cells foe another project. Thanks for the video.
This does not work if you have a battery that started this issue after heavy use. I have 2 packs that are having issues and the problem is that a pair of the rechargeable cells in the pack have gone out of balance with the rest of the pack. This is likely due to those cells having gone bad; I am testing to see if they can be brought back or if I will have to use some good cells from another bad pack to make one good battery pack.
I LOVE THAT I DIDN\T NEED TO OPEN THAT BATERRY, PLUS THAT I DON\T IVEEN HAVE THAT SORT OF SPECIAL TOOLS TO OPEN.....The method was working pefect to me as well.....thank yu verry much sire :)
No, the terminals on the post run through a sensor in the battery pack that will not allow it to be recharged this way. Simple to drill the holes, and just connect to the post terminals on a fresh battery. It works!!
Ryobi SUCKS! It figures that they would not have the charger recognize a battery that has been sitting around with a low or nonexistent charge, even though the battery is still good! The level to which consumers in the USA (and presumably, other countries too) are being scammed and ripped off, is unethical and mind boggling!
My Ryobi P118 Charger stopped working with no charge lights. It comes apart easily -- after you buy a T15 security Torx screwdriver. A 1/4" bit is too big to fit the hole in the plastic. There was a gob of carbonized crude on the circuit board primary side near C29. I just cleaned that up with some 90% isopropyl and a toothbrush and dried it thoroughly with a hair dryer. After powering up, it worked fine. There is also a fuse soldered in which you can check. Mine was good. CAUTION: The Primary voltage was 145 volts on my charger so make sure it has been unplugged for 30 minutes to let everything discharge before opening it up.
how about the new one with 4 led light indicators, it charged up, charge showed up properly, then about next day it started all 4 lights blinking instead light up and off after i push the button and it will not release any electricity, if i put it back in charger it clicks twice relay inside charger, but just blinks red which i believe means also testing, but it happened after full charge ... any information on that before i drill into it just out of frustration too?
Why can't you use the existing contract points? If it's a matter of the charger not able to see enough charge, you should be able to just hold the clips of the car battery charger to the already exposed contacts for the 2 minutes.
I did this and it worked great , thought I was gonna have to buy a new battery, don't know why it went dead I keep it inside and thought it was ok , anyway thanks and i hope it keeps working
I thought this was overthinking it when I first watched the video. Surely this was unnecessary and there was an easier way. Well, I did this and it worked perfectly! I drilled the holes exactly where instructed, then clamped my battery charger terminals on a couple metal drill bits and stuck those drill bits through the newly drilled holes. The battery charged up like a champ. Thank you!
Can you just touch the leads from the charger to the metal charging points on the battery? I'm assuming you're doing it this way on this model of battery to bybass the circuitry. I have the P100 batteries and I don't believe they have such circuitry installed. Nice video.
I have a question my battery did not show any signs of a charge I did this now when I put it in the charger it goes to Green but will not switch over to Red to charge is my battery bad I know my charger is fine because I use it on other batteries it'll go like I said green and then for maybe 3 minutes or 2 minutes it'll go completely off
Did this with a p102, battery terminals like you checked shows 14v, but when I touch the +/- on the intelliport area shows 7v, intellicharger shows it cannot charge, no green light. Any ideas?
This worked exactly as shown....but......the next day the battery was dead again and would not charge. I only charged this battery one time. Any way to fix it now. On the up side I called Ryobi and explained the problem and they sent me a new battery in about 2 day.
I was having trouble with this type of battery charging in my old charger. Same problem as in this video and same charger (I don't know the model number of the charger). I thought about doing what is shown in the video, but didn't have a battery charger to give the battery a boost. I decided to buy a new Ryobi battery charger model P117 that charges in a little as 30 minutes. My though was perhaps the new charger is improved with their intelligent circuit board. Stuck the battery in and it charged right up no problem. Not sure why it would not charge in old charger, but glad I did not have to drill holes in my battery.
Ive used a Stanley Lithium 12 volt capacitor the size of mans wallet designed for jump starting dead car batterys on 6 18v batterys that blinked red,all 6 i left the 12 v capacitor connected for 15 seconds or so & they immediately began blinking green in my charge bases ,thanks so much for this video,i used to know this trick 10 years ago but after being retired over 5 years & not using my tools or brain much, my brain went to mush & cant remember shit lol
So mine are showing 3 and 4 bars while charged, but once I unplug them, they go to 2 bars and 1. The charger is green indicating a full charge. Once I unplug it, the battery has no life. Do you think this jump start would fix the issue? Any info would be greatly appreciated
I have a older blue and yellow 18v ryobi kit. Maybe ill try this on them... this is my first video. I have two new diff dewalt drills, but this could save me battery to my airpump and circ saw. maybe.
I took my battery charger and placed the wires on the top + and - terminal of the battery taped them on with masking tape for 2 minutes, I didn't have to drill into it at all and it charges fine.
Now only if you could help me figure out why my Hyundai accent 2009 keeps burning up brakes even again after just replacing entire hub in the front. Mecanics can't figure it out either
Hello Rider. I have a different battery that is similar, but different. I'd like to send you a picture to see if you know how this model can be revitalized, like in your video.
Did not work for me. Battery has 11.29 volts. Charger is testing it for 10 minutes or longer?? Then goes to defective. Also my 4 LED thing does not show any level.
@@Fpom79 I drilled the holes and used the 120 volt battery car charger and it worked! I put drill bits in the teeth of the charger and stuck the drill bits in the wholes. I didn't have any appropriate wires for the task. The drill bits worked.
Anyone have fix for this situation...7v on the external battery pack contacts, 19v across the actual internal batteries. The battery indicator only displays one LED and the charger says it's charged. I'm thinking about draining the batteries below 7V Ihen plug back into the charger to see what indication i get. Then maybe try the jump charge. Maybe the circuit board is bad on this one???
This worked for me. Thank you so much. Mostly I've been a "Yellow" or "Blue" brand guy. Thought I'd try Ryobi starting with the brad nailer and then a hammer drill / driver. I have to say I'm less than impressed. The nail gun has trouble firing, the drill chuck lets go of the bits, and now I have to do this hack for the battery. But you just saved me some $. So thank you again.
The same few companies manufacture all of these. And I don't mean Milwaukee and Ryobi. I mean some shop in China makes multiple "brand" names. It's like Foxcon making Dell, HP, Lenovo, Apple, etc. computers.
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I never would’ve guessed to do this in a million years . I was about to buy a new drill and decided to give it a shot . Works perfectly . Thanks
Me too! Was ready to buy a new one too. Thank heaven for TH-cam
Simplest fix on TH-cam. My battery showed 2+ volts after drilling 7/64" holes. Charged for 2+ min. using 2 amp on my 12 volt auto battery charger. then battery showed 14+ volts. Plugged it into Ryobi battery charger and green light came ON!!! Covered holes with black electrical tape. Thanks!
This is fantastic. Over 1K 'Likes' and loads more views says that this battery charger from RYOBI is more the problem than the battery.
I was so dismayed that my 1.5 amp 18 Volt lithium battery was SOL on the charger...
My Makita 18V lithium battery charger gives a dead signal on one of three of my cordless tool batteries. BUT, the battery gives plenty of power to a jig/recipricating saw and circular saw as well, go figure.
With so many peeps going 'off-grid' this is unacceptable in the real world of design, manufacturing, merchandising, reuse, repurpose, recyle v landfill.
I had a Ryobi 18 V battery that sat in my garage for over 18 months that would not take a charge.
The "Fix" was fast...easy & safe.
I used my 12VDC trickle charger ..held the "+" & the "- " cables to the battery posts for slightly over 2 minutes.
I then put the battery into the Ryobi battery charger.
The charger "Testing" cycle ran a little longer than normal then it started the charging cycle !
I did not do any disassembly ...I didn't drill any holes !
this absolutely worked on my old non-lithium batteries, thanks!!
Worked! I did not have a trickle charger so I used another good 18v battery. Took about two minutes to take a battery from zero to ten volts at which point the charger recognized the battery again and charged it to 18v. I filled the holes with some hot glue and covered with electrical tape. Thanks!
It works!!!!! Watched the video, drilled the holes, used a trickle charger for 2 minutes and voila....all in a matter of 20 minutes. Great video!!!
Just did this today - 4-24-21. Drilled the holes, connected like terminals to a freshly charged battery and held in place for 3 minutes. Connected the"dead" battery to the charger and it fully charged in 30 minutes!!
I saved my son about 40 bucks for a new battery! I put a small piece of duct tape over each of the drilled holes and all is good!!
Did as you instructed, used a DC regulated voltage power supply.. from charged for 2 minutes. checked with voltmeter, from 1.5v went to 11v and is now charging beautifully! best video and instruction I've seen in a long time. Thank You
I would love to try this, but in order to drill a hole..I need my "dead" battery
Try taking off the charger several times until the green light starts to flash. I hope this works for you.
Get out ur pocket knife and start spinning it to make a hole. It’s plastic covering not steel bro..
DO NOT DRILL INTO YOUR BATTERY!!!! SIMPLY GET A TORX SECURITY BIT KIT AND TAKE THE BATTERY APART!!!!! Drilling is stupid!!!!!
@@TheCorezero00 right! 🤦 & If you don't have one of those get a tiny flat head, that will work too & simply unscrew & remove cover!
You have the fastest way to recharge bad Ryobi batteries I've seen. Taking apart the battery case is a pain.
Helpful to many I'm sure but you don't need to drill holes in your battery. There are 4 Torx screws on top of the battery with tamper resistant heads. Just buy the right bit and unscrew them.
I have spent months studying battery reconditioning and discovered a fantastic website at Magic Mender Wizard (google it if you're interested)
@@ricwelbre2270 yeah B U L L S H I T!!!!! THAT'S A SCAM SITE!!!!!
EXACTLY!!!!! I'm not drilling into my battery case!!!!!!! Just use the correct tool to disassemble the battery case and access the entire battery stack!!!!! You can then test each individual cell to see which one is bad and replace it with a working cell and voila!!! Working battery again!!!!!!
A lot quicker to just drill
What I did is bring a good screw driver and popped the little notch in the middle of the tamper proof screw and were able to open it with a regular torx bit
Nicely done. I opened mine up and used a working battery to bring voltage up. Same idea basically, to get the Intelliport to charge. Next time around, I'll probably use your drill method. What a dumb design, huh? You'd think Ryobi would have a reset button! Sheesh
Thanks man, this worked for me and I used an AC adapter as my battery charger 😂
Thanks a bunch! I was trying a different TH-cam hack to insert then remove, insert & remove to get a wee little charge each time. After an hour for one pack no dice. However, after drilling holes in it, I did find after 20 insertions it bumped up .03 V. So your method is quick and easy. Saved 2 batteries and I used the start option For 30 seconds on my car battery charger instead of charge to get the voltage from three and 4 V up to 14. I think I’ll use black RTV to fill in the holes. And I’ll set a reminder to charge my packs every month or so. Great video and much appreciated!
This good to learn. I had this issue and I had seen something like this before. I kind of jumped “sparked “ the terminals, and it woke up the battery. Then it charges okay. Great video.
This worked! Mine had 11 volts and wouldn’t charge. Took it to almost 13 and it’s now charging fine in the charger again. Thank you for sharing this!
I did this trick today and it was amazing. So much easier than taking the battery apart. Tks for the info..
What a help! Your fix was great!! Worked like a charm... I used a trickle charger, and left it charging for thirty minutes. Thank You! Bob
Will it start charging like normal again after that fix? How many times are you having to jump start the battery? I have a few batteries that are acting up. Anxious to try this.
Luv his talk show host voice. Thx could this be the same for the bigger battery that is twice this size?
Good video. I have been fixing many One+ batteries this way. actually I am removing the batteries and not drilling. Sometimes I have a bad cell so I can test down to the cell level that way.
I am tired of having to fix them. My aftermarket 6ah batteries never die like the Ryobi ones do. Must be a BMS logic problem. Each time I jump the battery for about 45 seconds they revive enough to indicate voltage on the pedistal where it indicated 1v or less prior to jumping it. Out of 6 that I have revived one has cel damage and I am going to use the 18650 cells foe another project.
Thanks for the video.
Buddy! your'e a life saver! Worked exactly like you said. Thanks a bunch for sharing that.
Excellent video! Saved my Ryobi tools from the landfill.
This does not work if you have a battery that started this issue after heavy use. I have 2 packs that are having issues and the problem is that a pair of the rechargeable cells in the pack have gone out of balance with the rest of the pack. This is likely due to those cells having gone bad; I am testing to see if they can be brought back or if I will have to use some good cells from another bad pack to make one good battery pack.
I LOVE THAT I DIDN\T NEED TO OPEN THAT BATERRY, PLUS THAT I DON\T IVEEN HAVE THAT SORT OF SPECIAL TOOLS TO OPEN.....The method was working pefect to me as well.....thank yu verry much sire :)
Just a questions, instead of drilling into the battery, does connecting it to the charging plates on the outside charging post not work, or no? Thanks
No, the terminals on the post run through a sensor in the battery pack that will not allow it to be recharged this way. Simple to drill the holes, and just connect to the post terminals on a fresh battery. It works!!
Hell YEAH, I just tried to charge two batteries and found them 'defective'. THANKS !!
Sho'nuf works. Used a" $9.99 "float charger" from auto section of Harbor Freight.
Ryobi SUCKS! It figures that they would not have the charger recognize a battery that has been sitting around with a low or nonexistent charge, even though the battery is still good! The level to which consumers in the USA (and presumably, other countries too) are being scammed and ripped off, is unethical and mind boggling!
It worked ty I used a jump box with 2 picks for 10 seconds thes r new battery's in there package that I got with all the tools 3 years old ty again.
It worked. Used a battery charger at 10 A for 2 min. Thanks for saving me $70!
It worked!!!!!
Thank you so much! I fixed 2 of my batteries
So what charge do I select on my Charger? 18v? 12v?
Just saw your video and and tried it, and it works, just wanted to say thanks
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My Ryobi P118 Charger stopped working with no charge lights.
It comes apart easily -- after you buy a T15 security Torx screwdriver. A 1/4" bit is too big to fit the hole in the plastic.
There was a gob of carbonized crude on the circuit board primary side near C29. I just cleaned that up with some 90% isopropyl and a toothbrush and dried it thoroughly with a hair dryer.
After powering up, it worked fine. There is also a fuse soldered in which you can check. Mine was good.
CAUTION: The Primary voltage was 145 volts on my charger so make sure it has been unplugged for 30 minutes to let everything discharge before opening it up.
is there a version for the 36v battery? Got 2 dead one to save
If you haven’t tried already try unplugging & plugging the charger back in w the battery inside of it.
Yes sir👌 Right on point 👍
No need to drill anything ^^^^ . Just like you said, plug & unplug for about a minute. Plug it back in to charge & that's it.
@@101ThunderRock From what I understand, that method won't work on those model chargers. it does work on the P110 model though.
@@DouglaskaT go figure, I used a P118 to do mine, LOL. Some must work better than others.
What voltage do you set the battery charger to
how about the new one with 4 led light indicators, it charged up, charge showed up properly, then about next day it started all 4 lights blinking instead light up and off after i push the button and it will not release any electricity, if i put it back in charger it clicks twice relay inside charger, but just blinks red which i believe means also testing, but it happened after full charge ... any information on that before i drill into it just out of frustration too?
Wow! A method that works. Thanks.
I have two Lithium+Hp 18vs. Does your drill remedy work for these thicker batteries, do you know? Are the drill spots the same? Thank you.
Why can't you use the existing contract points? If it's a matter of the charger not able to see enough charge, you should be able to just hold the clips of the car battery charger to the already exposed contacts for the 2 minutes.
I'm thinking the same thing. Did you get a response?
Nope
it looks cooler when you drill the holes, it's for effect of video draw
I think he's doing it that way to bypass the safety circuitry in those specific batteries. p100 don't have such circuitry so it might work on those.
No you have to bypass the safety circuitry
I did this and it worked great , thought I was gonna have to buy a new battery, don't know why it went dead I keep it inside and thought it was ok , anyway thanks and i hope it keeps working
I thought this was overthinking it when I first watched the video. Surely this was unnecessary and there was an easier way. Well, I did this and it worked perfectly! I drilled the holes exactly where instructed, then clamped my battery charger terminals on a couple metal drill bits and stuck those drill bits through the newly drilled holes. The battery charged up like a champ. Thank you!
Wanna try but what kind of charger do I need? Thanx. Great vid.
Can you just touch the leads from the charger to the metal charging points on the battery? I'm assuming you're doing it this way on this model of battery to bybass the circuitry. I have the P100 batteries and I don't believe they have such circuitry installed. Nice video.
I have a question my battery did not show any signs of a charge I did this now when I put it in the charger it goes to Green but will not switch over to Red to charge is my battery bad I know my charger is fine because I use it on other batteries it'll go like I said green and then for maybe 3 minutes or 2 minutes it'll go completely off
What voltage did you have set at on battery charger
Brilliant!! Worked for mine. Thanks for sharing.
Did this with a p102, battery terminals like you checked shows 14v, but when I touch the +/- on the intelliport area shows 7v, intellicharger shows it cannot charge, no green light. Any ideas?
Mine still had a charge but was still saying defective :(
What do you drill the holes with?
Anyone know what location to drill on 4Ah batteries. Have 3 of em with the flash of death now. Frustrating.
Did you close the holes back up somehow?
Does anyone know if the hole locations are the same for a 4Ah battery?
Tried this trick but I only got a red one light that doesn’t blink is that ok? If not I didn’t get to the terminal
This worked exactly as shown....but......the next day the battery was dead again and would not charge. I only charged this battery one time. Any way to fix it now. On the up side I called Ryobi and explained the problem and they sent me a new battery in about 2 day.
Holly shit!!!! It worked!!! Thanks my man.. U just saved me $$$
I was having trouble with this type of battery charging in my old charger. Same problem as in this video and same charger (I don't know the model number of the charger). I thought about doing what is shown in the video, but didn't have a battery charger to give the battery a boost. I decided to buy a new Ryobi battery charger model P117 that charges in a little as 30 minutes. My though was perhaps the new charger is improved with their intelligent circuit board. Stuck the battery in and it charged right up no problem. Not sure why it would not charge in old charger, but glad I did not have to drill holes in my battery.
Worked like a charm, thanks!
mine just has a solid green light but is dead but the cells have voltage but it wont power anything
Mine won't come on at all. No lights.
question: can i use a standard battery charger (auto battery charger)?
I used a car battery charger and it worked great.
Ive used a Stanley Lithium 12 volt capacitor the size of mans wallet designed for jump starting dead car batterys on 6 18v batterys that blinked red,all 6 i left the 12 v capacitor connected for 15 seconds or so & they immediately began blinking green in my charge bases ,thanks so much for this video,i used to know this trick 10 years ago but after being retired over 5 years & not using my tools or brain much, my brain went to mush & cant remember shit lol
Saves me from buying safety bits. I like this fix.
What voltage was that charger set at to give the boost?
Max on charger 12amp for like 10 to 15 sec.
Can I charge it with my truck?
Yup
So mine are showing 3 and 4 bars while charged, but once I unplug them, they go to 2 bars and 1. The charger is green indicating a full charge. Once I unplug it, the battery has no life. Do you think this jump start would fix the issue? Any info would be greatly appreciated
But I don't have a battery charger, can I use my cars battery?
Yes it worked for me.
Wow man it really work I really really appreciate it keep theM coming
Can this be done by using an other fully charged battery?
For some who don’t have the charger?
In the thread below a few have said yes…
Thank you. Like your video said, this method works!
Why not open it up instead of compromising the case?
What is the voltage and ampere that we shold use for high charge (within two minutes )
Max amp. on charger. 10amp. 12amp.
This worked perfect thank you!
Why drill the holes. Why not just touch the outside terminals for the same result
I have a older blue and yellow 18v ryobi kit. Maybe ill try this on them... this is my first video. I have two new diff dewalt drills, but this could save me battery to my airpump and circ saw. maybe.
I took my battery charger and placed the wires on the top + and - terminal of the battery taped them on with masking tape for 2 minutes, I didn't have to drill into it at all and it charges fine.
Now only if you could help me figure out why my Hyundai accent 2009 keeps burning up brakes even again after just replacing entire hub in the front. Mecanics can't figure it out either
😔😞❤️
My battery says that it is fully charged, but it only charges one line. It works but for a few minuyes. How can I fix it?
Thanks man this worked!
Hello Rider. I have a different battery that is similar, but different. I'd like to send you a picture to see if you know how this model can be revitalized, like in your video.
Thank you bud it worked
Thank you! It worked! I also used a car battery charger.
This works fantastic, Tks for the info.
Did not work for me. Battery has 11.29 volts. Charger is testing it for 10 minutes or longer?? Then goes to defective. Also my 4 LED thing does not show any level.
If you got to do all this it’s still a piece of shit. How about they just make the port to know the difference
It worked! Thank you so much! Awesome!
my chargers blink in test mode without a battery plugged in
Thank you! It worked great! I had an easier time with the car battery charger since I didn't have a powerful enough charger.
Isn't the car battery charger is too powerful for this?
@@hillelhalevi actually no, it worked out really well.
@@Fpom79 I'll try it with my car battery charger, but I'm going to open up the battery instead of drilling holes in it.
@@Fpom79 I drilled the holes and used the 120 volt battery car charger and it worked! I put drill bits in the teeth of the charger and stuck the drill bits in the wholes. I didn't have any appropriate wires for the task. The drill bits worked.
@@hillelhalevi awesome! Unfortunately for me, the battery I did that too lasted about 3 months only lol .
Now that’s cool also thanks for the help
Anyone have fix for this situation...7v on the external battery pack contacts, 19v across the actual internal batteries. The battery indicator only displays one LED and the charger says it's charged. I'm thinking about draining the batteries below 7V Ihen plug back into the charger to see what indication i get. Then maybe try the jump charge. Maybe the circuit board is bad on this one???
Pure gold!
/Bklyn👑
why drill holes? just take the cover off! thanks any way!
This worked for me. Thank you so much. Mostly I've been a "Yellow" or "Blue" brand guy. Thought I'd try Ryobi starting with the brad nailer and then a hammer drill / driver. I have to say I'm less than impressed. The nail gun has trouble firing, the drill chuck lets go of the bits, and now I have to do this hack for the battery. But you just saved me some $. So thank you again.
The same few companies manufacture all of these. And I don't mean Milwaukee and Ryobi. I mean some shop in China makes multiple "brand" names. It's like Foxcon making Dell, HP, Lenovo, Apple, etc. computers.
Thanks for your help
Very good, you gave her a push...😅😂🤣
Does this work for the larger battery?
Charged two batteries back to 16.5 volts still wouldn't take a charge..
Why not just take the case apart
Wow! Thanks mate!
I have no clue why he drilled holes in the battery when he could have just unscrewed the housing and took it apart. Makes zero sense to me