Your leaf blower battery should be able to charge the laptop. The drill battery should charge your phone. And while we’re at it, why don’t we stronger than before Can the USB-C power adapter also charge this power tool?
Basically, there’s not much difference between the battery bank you buy from Anker and the battery for a DeWalt power tool – they both generally have the same thing. 18650 Sel Li-ion . But to do all that, the power tool battery will need a powerful USB-C port.
And that’s really nothing… until now.
This $100 DeWalt DCB094 USB Charging Kit lets you add this port to a 20V DeWalt power tool battery in no time. Slide this quarter pound adapter into your battery pack, and you get a coil two-way direction USB-C PD 100W port. This means that not only can you charge up to a MacBook Pro-sized laptop with the sizeable DeWalt bundle, but you can also charge the DeWalt bundle using your laptop’s USB-C charger or your phone.
The adapter supports everything from the inexpensive 1.3Ah pack that comes with the loss-leader combo kit to 15Ah FlexVolt big pack Chances are you’ll stick with static tools instead. This is the biggest battery charger you will ever find outside Special power plant .
As someone with a garage drawer full of DeWalt batteries, I couldn’t wait to test it out. But not so far The experience I dreamed of.
good things
Works as advertised: 100W output, 100W input
made
Built like a tank
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bad thing
Expensive – and you can only buy the whole set for $99
Useless with the smaller DeWalt battery pack
Sometimes it can struggle to charge a completely empty battery
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I’ve been testing DeWalt DCB094 on and off for a few months, and here’s the good news : It works great.
I turned the DeWalt 15Ah monster bundle into a USB-C external battery that can charge my wife MacBook Pro 14 inci (69.6Wh) three times full and gas is still in the tank. Mine steam surface ? I charged the 40.04Wh plan five full times – that’s an extra 10 hours old ring there. when I take pictures Lego making takes about three hours With my iPhone, I connected it to the DeWalt 6A plan knowing it was there Impossible It will run out of juice.
You get a 100W USB-C PD port and a 12W USB-A port. The USB-A port will charge while the DeWalt battery is also charging.
Every 20V DeWalt battery I’ve tried, new or old, big or small, works with an adapter too. This includes two 1.5 amp packs, a 1.7 amp pack, two 5 amp packs that came with the lawnmower, and my 6 amp pack which I bought about a year ago and rarely use. I’ve recorded everything charging up to 100W in both directions via the USB-C port, which is enough to run the day (but not tomorrow The largest USB-C PD laptops function as if they were plugged into the wall.
When it comes time to recharge this power tool, the 100W USB-C port sometimes lets me do it faster than the DeWalt AC adapter too. While DeWalt unfortunately only ships the DCB094 with a 65W USB-C charger, even that should deliver faster charge rates than the company’s cheaper AC adapters that come with a drill or driver kit. And when I added the separately purchased 100W USB-C charger, I was able to save time on the DeWalt 4A (80W) AC adapter when charging the biggest packs.
Here’s how fast this battery charges and roughly how much you extract:
Delivery time and capacity
god battery
battery status
Charger + USB-C Adapter 65W
Charger + USB-C Adapter 100W
Dewalt 4A Wall Charger (DCB115)
Charging Steam Deck from DeWalt battery*
god battery
battery status
Charger + USB-C Adapter 65W
Charger + USB-C Adapter 100W
Dewalt 4A Wall Charger (DCB115)
Charging Steam Deck from DeWalt battery*
1,5 amp (30 watt)
enough to use
26 minutes
27 minutes
22 minutes 21Wh (half charge)
1.7Ah (34Wh)
New stuff
30 minutes
26 minutes
26 minutes
22.8 watt-hours (half-charged)
4.0Ah (80Wh)
Often used for
55 minutes
51 minutes
47 minutes 48Wh (single charge)
5Ah (100Wh)
enough to use
1 hour, 29 days
1 hour, 5 pm 1 hour, 14 days
66Wh (1.5 charge)
6Ah (120Wh)
light to use
1 jam, 47 m
1 hour, 24 nights 1 hour, 29 days
84Wh (2 charges)
15Ah (300Wh)
New stuff
4 hours, 33 nights
3 hours, 14 days 4 hours, 6 pm
206Wh (5 charges)
* Charging larger batteries for longer may be more efficient. With a 15Ah DeWalt battery, I saw almost 224 Wh charging the MacBook Pro at 69.6 Wh, and close to 240 Wh charging the 100 Wh USB-C battery bank.
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The only problem I have is if I drain the entire battery I mean at all Drain – run it all the way on the leaf blower or dig more often to keep it from spinning more – sometimes the DeWalt charging adapter doesn’t turn on when I plug it in. Sometimes I have to work around this by connecting it to a different battery or charger first. Oh, and you can’t charge one DeWalt battery with another DeWalt battery with two adapters. I try.
So if almost everything works fine, why am I giving this product a 6? Partly because edge Just moved to a full 10-point scale of review resultsNot Pair that with a 15-amp battery that costs just $389.
Every battery I’ve tried works – even if it’s a Chinese fake – but not all batteries are created equal. I wouldn’t bother with the tiny 1.5Ah battery. Nor is it an imitation, because the seller lied about its capabilities.
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With smaller batteries like the 1.5Ah, 1.7Ah, and even 4Ah packs, they don’t charge devices that take a long time to reach via battery banks or traditional chargers.
Part of that is likely due to transfer losses, which are not limited to DeWalt. You can’t charge a 100Wh laptop battery with a 100Wh battery like the DeWalt DCB205 because some of that power isn’t reaching it. (Some spend as heat, and I can attest to that charging My HyperJuice 100Wh With the DeWalt adapter it makes HyperJuice uncomfortable to the touch.) Overall, I’ve seen losses of between 20 percent and 33 percent with my devices—for example, the DCB206 6Ah (120Wh) gives me only 80Wh of Steam Deck battery life.
You can even charge a very slow DeWalt battery with a 5V USB-A adapter in no time. It took 28.5 hours to charge the 6Ah Dewalt battery. Photo by Sean Hollister/The Verge
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But this 6Ah battery is also a 2.5lb brick after I added the DeWalt adapter – twice the weight of my HyperJuice, even assuming I don’t have to buy a DeWalt battery since I already have one for my gear. The DeWalt 5Ah battery is a little lighter, but I might only see 66Wh of power for my devices etc.
When you consider the fact that DeWalt batteries are very expensive and heavy for the capacity they usually offer, I can’t recommend someone to buy in the DeWalt ecosystem just for that feature, unless you really need it. wavy, rough, hard A battery that can charge your device And Power tools on the go.
But if you previously You have a garage full of big DeWalt batteries that you don’t use often? I could see myself spending $100 if I didn’t already have a capable power bank or two. Between the 5A charging speed and the device’s 100W output, there’s a lot to like.
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Now, though, what I really want is for DeWalt and company to take the obvious next step: attach the USB-C port to the battery itself, so we don’t have to mess with the adapter at all. in January DeWalt product manager Shaun Fitzgibbons told me that the DCB094 could be something of a test balloon: “If we get the attention I hope we get, I think it opens a lot of doors for adding it directly to the battery. Street.”
I think DeWalt should do just that. Many people would buy a genuine USB-C power tool battery who would never think of a $100 adapter that has to be turned on and off all the time.
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