Your leaf blower battery should be able to charge a laptop. The drill’s battery should charge your phone. And while we’re at it, why shouldn’t we Stronger than ever Can USB-C power adapters also charge these power tool batteries?
Basically, there isn’t much difference between a battery bank you buy from Anker and a battery for a DeWalt power tool – they both generally have the same stuff. 18650 Li-ion cell. But to do all this, the power tool battery needs a powerful USB-C port.
And that wasn’t really a thing… until now.
Add this connector to any DeWalt 20V power tool battery in a snap with this $100 DeWalt DCB094 USB Charging Kit. Slide this quarter-pound adapter onto your battery and you’ve got a coil two way USB-C PD 100W port. This means that not only can you charge up to a MacBook Pro laptop with a large enough DeWalt bundle, but you can also charge these DeWalt bundles using your laptop or phone’s USB-C charger.
The adapter supports everything from the cheap 1.3Ah packs that come with the Loss Guide combo kit Huge 15Ah package from FlexVolt You’ll probably stick with static tools. This is the largest battery charger you will find out there Own power plant.
As someone with a garage drawer full of DeWalt batteries, I couldn’t wait to try it out. But it is not until now The experience I dreamed of.
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I’ve been cycling the DeWalt DCB094 on and off for several months, and here’s the good news: it works flawlessly.
I converted DeWalt’s 15Ah Monster Pack into an external USB-C battery that my wife can charge. MacBook Pro 14 inch (69.6Wh) three times full and petrol still in the tank. my vapor surface? I fully charged a 40.04Wh pack 5 times – that’s an extra 10 hours Aldening Right there when I shot Lego takes about three hours to build Using my iPhone, I connected it to a DeWalt 6A pack because I knew it was there no way It will run out of juice.
Every DeWalt 20V battery I’ve tried, new or old, big or small, has worked with the adapter as well. This includes two 1.5 amp packs, 1.7 amp packs, two 5 amp packs that came with the mower, and my 6 amp pack that I bought about a year ago and rarely use. I charged them up to 100W on both sides via the USB-C port, which is enough to last the day (But not tomorrowMost USB-C PD laptops work as if they were plugged into a wall
When it comes time to charge those power tool batteries, the 100W USB-C port sometimes lets me do it faster than DeWalt’s power adapter. Although DeWalt unfortunately only ships the DCB094 with a 65W USB-C charger, even that offers faster charging speeds than the company’s cheaper power supplies that come with drills or driver kits. And when I add a separately purchased 100W USB-C charger, the DeWalt 4A (80W) power adapter cuts down on the time needed to charge my largest packs.
Here’s how fast these batteries will charge and roughly how much you’ll get from them:
Delivery time and capacity
| Dewalt batteries | batterystatus | 65W USB-C Charger + Adapter | USB-C 100W Charger + Adapter | Dewalt 4A Wall Charger (DCB115) | Charging the vape deck from a Dewalt battery* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dewalt batteries | batterystatus | 65W USB-C Charger + Adapter | USB-C 100W Charger + Adapter | Dewalt 4A Wall Charger (DCB115) | Charging the vape deck from a Dewalt battery* |
| 1,5 ampere (30 watts) | Used sparingly | 26 minutes | 27 minutes | 22 minutes | 21Wh (half charge) |
| 1,7 Ah (34 Hu) | Brand new | 30 minutes | 26 minutes | 26 minutes | 22.8 watt hours (half charge) |
| 4,0 Ah (80 Wh) | frequent use | 55 minutes | 51 minutes | 47 minutes | 48 Wh (single charge) |
| 5Ah (100Wh) | Used sparingly | 1 Std., 29 T | 1 p.m., 5 p.m | 1 Std., 14 T | 66 Wh (1,5 Ladung) |
| 6Ah (120Wh) | lightly used | 1 Std., 47 Min | 1 am, midnight | 1 Std., 29 T | 84Wh (2 charges) |
| 15Ah (300Wh) | Brand new | 4 pm, 33 pm | 3 Std., 14 T | 4 p.m., 6 p.m | 206Wh (5 charges) |
The only problem I had was when I used up the whole battery completely Drain it – run it full on a leaf blower or bury it frequently so it doesn’t spin – sometimes the DeWalt charging adapter won’t turn on when I plug it in. Sometimes I had to trick it by plugging it into a different battery or charger first. Oh, and you can’t charge a DeWalt battery with another DeWalt battery with two adapters. I tried.
So if everything works fine, why would I give this product a 6? partial cause edges I just moved on to a full 10 point scale of evaluation scores Avoid point swelling – 6 is still good! – but partly because the benefits of DeWalt adapters are reduced no Pair it with a 15 amp battery for just $389
With batteries as small as 1.5Ah, 1.7Ah and even 4Ah packs, they won’t charge devices long enough to justify reaching for them via a bank or traditional battery charger.
Some of this may be due to transmission loss, which is not unique to DeWalt. You can’t charge a 100Wh laptop battery with a 100Wh battery like DeWalt’s DCB205 because some of the power doesn’t reach it. (Some give heat, and I can confirm this charge Main 100Wh Hyperjuice (With the DeWalt adapter, the HyperJuice felt uncomfortably hot.) Overall, I saw losses between 20 percent and 33 percent on my devices — for example, a 6 Ah (120 Wh) DCB206 gave me only 80 Wh of steam deck battery life.
But that 6Ah battery is also a 2.5 pound brick when I add the DeWalt adapter – twice the weight of my Hyperjuice, even assuming I don’t need to buy a DeWalt battery since I already have one with the tool. The DeWalt’s 5Ah battery is a bit lighter, but then I can only see 66Wh of power for my devices etc.
Considering DeWalt batteries are usually too expensive and heavy for the capacity they offer, I wouldn’t recommend anyone buy from the DeWalt ecosystem for this feature unless you really need them. Crusty, rough, hard Battery that can charge your device And Power tool on the go.
But if you as far as Got a garage full of giant DeWalt batteries that you don’t use often? I can imagine spending $100 if I don’t already have a power bank or two. Between the 5A charging speed and the devices’ 100W output, there’s a lot to like.
What I wish now is for DeWalt and company to take the obvious next step: glue the USB-C connector to the battery so we don’t have to mess with adapters at all. In JanuaryDeWalt’s product manager, Sean Fitzgibbons, told me that the DCB094 could be a kind of experimental balloon: “I’m hoping if we can get attention, I think it will open the door to adding it directly to the battery.”
I think DeWalt should do just that. Many people will buy a real USB-C battery for a power tool never mind the $100 adapter that has to be turned on and off every time.
