Is your DeWalt FlexVolt Battery Not Charging or holding a state of charge? Simple Solution! DCB115
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- Опубликовано: 1 ноя 2021
- Is your DeWalt FlexVolt Battery Not Charging or holding a state of charge? Simple Solution in this video where many frustrated customers have returned their FlexVolt batteries and tools without realizing they weren't setting up the charger and battery together properly.
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I was about to send my charger back and decided to come to RUclips first. 😂 Thank you.
No need to press black button just give it a good push to feel/ hear it locked in.
Thank you !!! Works the same for the DCB107 !! I thought I needed new batteries already !
Bro i can’t thank you enough. I am usually very good at trouble shooting things. I just bought this exact battery and was about to return it. For those watching this and still having trouble, MAKE SURE you depress the release on the battery fully and do not let go until the battery is fully seated. Nothing is wrong with the battery. I was livid 10 mins ago as i just spent $170 on this battery
I second that "Thank You". Was having the exact same issue. DEPRESS THE RELEASE BUTTON!!!!!
This is not obvious out of the box and no instructions included with my new 6AH flexvolt battery. Thank you!
If only DeWalt had made that clear. I bought 2 12AH batteries and took them with the new chainsaw up several miles into the forest to clear some trees off of trails, only to have no working batteries for my chainsaw. Wasted many strenuous hours of my time. Even took my batteries and saw into the DeWalt service center and they gave me 2 new batteries (600.00 value!) which of course had the same problem. Thanks so much for posting this and finally helping me figure it out!
Glad to help Terry! My frustrations with the batteries led me to do something about it since they really had no instructions at all about this charging process.
@@DIYMaistor heres my thought , when going to the forest, be like ,take gas driven chainsaws ?
Wow, you should get Nobel Prize!!
Thanks so much. I was trying more complicated solutions unnecessarily and getting rid of chargers unnecessarily. Thanks for helping!
Dude I have been waiting like 3 hours for the battery and i was driving me mad to see it didn't charge at all. Thanks a lot!
You're welcome Ricardo! Glad to help, I was frustrated too so I made the video to help people out!
Excellent video! This is the only one I could find that completely covers the whole charging process and battery features!
😎👍🎯⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Many thanks!
Thanks so much for showing this - really appreciate it!
Boy, you just saved me from throwing a fit. Thanks!
Thanks i was racking my brain on why it wasn't charging. Much appreciated
I had similar issue on DCB112 with brand new 5Ah battery, thought they had given me some defect one. It's charging now - jesus what a simple fix, why didn't I think of trying that out :D Big thanks!
Son of a gun. This has to be the most helpful youtube video ever.
Dude I was losing it! Thank you!!
Thanks for the info. After five hours of the new battery sitting in the charger, I figured out the same. Now, just waiting to see how long it will take to fully charge a 60V 6AH battery.
This whole time
I thought the battery 🪫 was broken
I try it as you said
Finally!!!! 😅
You saved me a lot of money 💴
I was about to throw it away 😅
This was also driving me crazy, thanks for showing the simple fix. I feel dumb but knowing is half the battle.
Thanks so much for this very useful video! Now I know why the heat gun wasn’t working! Much appreciated! 😊
Genius! Saved me from buying another battery. Thanks for the great tip.
Thank you ! I had thesame problem, now it’s finally charging
Omg best video ever. Have two batt for lawn mower. Only one was doing this. But that was only cause one batt was a little tighter. thank you. Saved my whole day a swear.
Thanks so much great video saved me buying a new battery
Thank you so much! Very helpful video and fixed the issue.
Hey thanks mate you saved me a lot of grief, charging properly now 👍
Game changer. Thank you. I have a dewalt leaf blower and weed eater. I even bought two new batteries. I was at my wits end and I knew it was something I was doing wrong. Thank you! Thank you.
Happy to help! The weed eater is fantastic!!
@@DIYMaistor same 🤦🏻♀️ thank you!
Thank you so much for posting this, I thought I was going crazy or my charger was broken
Thanks for the help man! Needed this.
Cant believe you had to make this video. Im glad you could help these poor folk that couldnt seat the battery fully
You're a lifesaver! Thank you sir!
Seriously, they should put that information on the red cap that goes on the battery. I was about to buy a new charger. Thanks for this!
Awesome video. Fixed my issue. Thanks!
Absolute Gold. Thanks! I needed this!
Thank you sir, it was so close to return it back, you saved me some time, again thank you, greetings from France
My man thank you i thought I spent 300$ on paperweights
Dude. Thank you for real. Learn something new everyday
Glad to help! :-)
My battery charger is flashing red. Now it's a waiting game. Thank you 😀
Thanks! gonna give it a try. My battery is only a year old and I've maybe used it in a DeWalt blower a dozen times.
U saved me the biggest headache I’ve just tossed both of my 6ah flexvolt battery’s into the toolbox that I touch the least since I thought I needed some flexvolt specific charger ,but the issue for me was that I would plug in the battery and the light would turn off
Happy to help. :-) I made this channel to be useful for people and save us all the headaches.
Thank you so much for posting this!
Thank you so much for a truly helpful video.
I almost take my new battery back to Home Depot. Thank you for this video!
Same! I was thinking these cant both be bad already 🤣
Thank you so much for this video, you fixed my issue! I was stuck at 1 bar and it did exactly what you showed in this video!
And just after I typed my appreciation the battery stopped charging again. Solid red light on 1 bar. Uggghhhh
Wow. That is so dumb. If I could give you all the likes I would. There needs to be more people like you in this world. Thank you.
I appreciate that very much. I made the channel to help people with these frustrating things. Feel free to subscribe and share.
Beautiful. It worked for me. Thanks for the info..
Thanks for this. Helped in a big way.
Thank you so much for this video!! So helpful
Good video. Thanks for the help. It shouldn't be as difficult as it is to get this thing charged. Geez...
I feel stupid and grateful for you making this video😂
exactly what I need to know... thanks a lot!
Even the directions didn’t show what you did. Thanks, almost took it back…
Cheers!! What a simple fix, feeling stupid
thank you SO MUCH my bf was about to go buy a whole new charger bc he thought it was broken but i KNEW that button did something lol
Maybe the Flex batteries are different from the normal ones but I've had the standard batteries apart and there is no circuit connected to the release button. There's just a spring.
I have a charger with stage 2 charging, and it will charge at stage 1 for a while and move to stage 2. But it seems like it charges faster than it should. When I pull it off, it only shows two bars and not 3. Lasts 5min or so on my 60v grinder.
Thank you for posting this!
Thank you!!!!!! Problem solved... My client almost threw her new blower away
I have 2 20v Max batteries amd 2 chargers, 1 used and 1 new of each, tried this and it still happens that it blinks a couple times but then goes solid indicating full charge even though 1 is dead and the other is at 2/3
This saved me a trip to Home Depot with my new batteries as well! Thank you very much for the quick helpful video!
Me 2.. THANKS‼️‼️‼️
Great video! However, my battery once in the charger started to flash (charging), then solid light as charged indication. No charge completed! I wonder if there is something else wrong with the battery. I appreciate your input. Thank you.
Same.
I've given up on Dewalt due to their shockingly bad reliability of their flexvolt batteries. I have a living to make I can't be messing about with batteries. Ive replaced my entire tool set with the makita 40v battery system. The flex volt battery isn't fit for use
Great demonstration.
Very helpful Thank you!
No good for me. On a 60v charged it couple of times lasted long time but now won't charge it shows it's charging for about 30 second then the light goes completely off
same here
Same with me, idk if these people just don't know how to push a battery into a charger all the way or what but the button does nothing with charging capability it's not even connected to the control circuit OR the charging circuit, it literally is just a spring loaded plastic detent that catches to stop the battery from sliding out on you
Thank you for this video.
My battery (9ah) is less than a year old, charging properly (lights flash as in the video), but when my charger says it's finished charging and I remove the battery from the charger and depress the charge indicator button on the battery, only 2 of 3 green lights illuminate.. anybody know why I'm not getting 3 out of 3 green lights, indicating a full charge?
saved me a trip thanks for making this. Crazy that they turned out such a stupid design. Would have been simple to design it so the lights don't light up unless it's actually charging. Doesn't give me much confidence in DeWalt's designers. Not sure I can trust them to design something that will last a decade if they can't figure out how connect a battery to a charger. The old gravity contact system worked just fine.
Still having the same stand still red light issues. Batter is fully seated and connected properly. I usually use to blow out my trailer as I’m a truck driver but as of today it just won’t charge no matter how many times I reseat it
Try a different wall outlet and when you press the battery release button push it all the way in to seat fully. If that doesn't work, check the terminals on both the battery and charger, they might be damaged, bent or dirty from something thus losing contact.
Same here. Have the blower for about 1.5 years, battery won't fully charge now.
@@DIYMaistor hi. Try cleaning terminals on battery and charger with electronics contact cleaner. If you want? Slower but very effective: soda bicarbonate and distilled water. After about an hour clean with toothbrush . Don't rinse. Use a cotton bud or fine artist brush. If you have a compressor? Just blow clean. Rubbing alcohol also works well bit it's dirty terminals and corrosion. I've repaired quite a few battery chargers and batteries. Don't buy Vanon dewalt cordless imitation batteries. A 5 AH is really a 3 AH. Terrible balance board and cells are lighter compared to dewalt cells. Btw. When batteries reach one bar it's good practice to put on charger to extend life. The dewalt balance board is meant to cut out! But I leant a few batteries to my neighbor who drained down to 2.5 volts. I used a dc to dc converter from eBay with a LCD volt and amps readout gauge to jumpstart the battery. Now perfect but use a multimeter please. Slowly adjust volts to around 14 to 18 volts. You can get away with less as long as one bar shows. Im particular. I hope this helps. Btw put a fan on DC to DC converter ( boost converter). Guaranteed to work. I've been doing Electronics techie work and Electronics engineering for around 15 years now. Cheers from Australia 🙂👍👍👍
I have a flex volt rip saw 54v and a charger of 20v came with it I'm no expert but surely that won't charge right?
A bit late buy yes it discharges through different contacts than it charges.
Super helpful!
Thank you so much🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅
Thank you!
Thanks heaps !
Great advise - thx .
Similar issue but my 6AH charge for like 30 seconds and then stop . wont pass one bar
Thanks Bruv!!!!
How can you charge a 60 volt battery with a 12 to 20 volt max charger the under charge protection built into the battery would stop charging at a higher voltage then that charger can charge it would always show fully charged when you plug it in because it always has at least 20 volts light would start flashing showing it is charging when protection on battery kicks.
Because at 20V it's still charging all the cells, it's just charging them in parallel as 20v packs. All the '60V FlexVolt' means is certain tools that are 60V flexvolt tools have different electrode tab configuration that makes all the cells run IN SERIES... That's why u can run 20VMax tools with them, the 20VMax tool electrode tab layout caused the battery to run 20V Parallel..
Total bunk, look close at charger..... You DO need to seat battery but do not have to hold clip for it to work as there is no lock clip on charger to stop it from seating, it is the friction of contacts!
You just need to push it on until seated..
OMG you're a genius!! How did you ever figure that out??? All of us viewers are complete idiots!
my chargeris flashing butafter a few sec it d light is on steady but not charge
Graciass
Very helpful
Every time I put the battery in the red flashes but the other stays a solid yellow
This was an exact replacement for the old one that lasted about 10 years. ruclips.net/user/postUgkx7yWIKcrbA9KMHkGSfcgxW2lsjHT6B8Sh The top of my mitigation tube by my roofline was just a 90 elbow which allowed too much debris to fall down into the fan, eventually ruining it. Without this issue, I bet it would have kept running another 10 years. When I replaced this fan, I added an extra elbow joint so the top tube now it does a 180, which should solve that problem. The radon guys around here wanted to charge me a $300 diagnostic fee, then parts/labor (probably close to $600 total). I installed this all by myself in about an hour for the cost of the fan; it would probably be even easier/faster with two people. FYI the manufacturer's warranty greatly differs depending on whether you install it yourself (1 yr warranty) or have a licensed installer do it (10 yrs).
Maybe it's time for Dewalt to supply better chargers. It's bad enough they think it's fair to charge $300 CAD for a 9 AH battery all the while it's made in China for 20.
Damn I thought I was going to find the solution but this is just for dummies 😂
The button on the battery does nothing on the 115 charger only the fast chargers lock the battery in
This was so helpful and clear! Thank you
I've been charging my batteries wrong since January and one just got damaged, now I know to lock it in😮....
this is DE Walt and not Black and Decker .... B & D has a spring loaded button as well, but my charger light is not lighting at all , so I cannot tell if the battery pack or the charger is faulty. You didn't talk about a faulty charger!
Thx ;)
It works.
Me too, thank you
I highly recommend not using the black charger for any 60 volt batteries they have a defect that reprograms them and you will not be able to use them on the 60 volt tools frequently. The gauge on the sides of where the slots are to go into the charging port is what needs to be activated but even with that as described there is a flaw made with the black charger over the yellow charger and the way that it charges them. I've owned a battery business for 15 years and this is the common problem that we are seeing
Does this effect any tool using the 60 volt in 18 vokts tools i see a lot of guy blaming tge 60 volt damaging there tools are yoh aware of this
@@eoghanhennessy443 well the only way you can use the 60 volt and an 18-volt as you'd have to have the adapter which is a 18 volt pop in style battery with the thumb like the old school nicad ones that converts at the bottom to a slide on 20 volt. You'll be able to use the 60 volt if you have that adapter but it's the charging mechanism which needs to be the yellow charger when you recharge the 60 volt. Did I answer that correctly I'm not sure if I follow because usually it's about the 60 volt into 20 volt tools. I mean technically the 20 volt battery is an 18 volt battery but they claim it as a 20 volt Max because with the maximum voltage it's 21 volts but at nominal rate it is still 18 volts it's just a marketing technique that they use that they only allow in the United States nowhere else in the world
@@eoghanhennessy443 as far as the 60 volt ruining the actual 20 volt tool there is no real possibility of that happening it's just that the tools aren't made that well anymore to be honest with you. I've been refurbishing and rebuilding power tools from scratch for a decade and I'm very familiar with this stuff. Here's why that won't being effect to it or at least shouldn't be. The 60 volt battery doesn't engage until the two prongs that are to the left and the right of the main terminals of that battery are engaged and pushed in and those two slots are not on the 20 volt tool so the battery will never engage to a 60 volt and since 20 volts is 20 volts the only difference is the amp hours which won't affect an actual tool because it's just based on the run time with the amp hours. The only way as if somehow that battery got engaged while on the 20 volt tool then yes it would fry it quite easily. I've seen weirder things happen so don't get me wrong the battery could short out and kick itself over into 60 volts or it could get engaged somehow with those tabs being pushed in but that's awfully rare and tough to do but I wouldn't say it's impossible
Thank you,I never cared for the black chargers anyways...My 9amp is still only showing one bar and charger states it's full...The button is completely locked on the charger..
went through a lot of stress with home depot and this product, im done with dewalt. $230 for a single battery and charger that charges 50% of the time if i dont insert . detach re insert!
You saved me my friend
I get that my battery is placed in correctly it will start off as if then stops even though it's not charged
😭 I got so excited when the light started blinking but after 10 seconds it stopped blinking and stayed on 😫 my battery is still not charging 😡☹
same here
The clip has nothing to do with it
Just smack it on every time