Vanon Black and Decker 18 Volt Battery Review

hbpowerwall said:

Proficient to know it's a 'affair' with the circumspection on the cells only no search results strikes me equally odd and that band says it'due south not a LG jail cell for sure. I could exist wrong simply looks 'cheap' to me. I might do some heavier load tests if I become some time but that is a much more manual process.

with the spotwelds they are very average but experience it was done like that due to the very think nickle strip they used.

"W" checking back in... I took a few more pictures since I completed my kickoff cycle/test with the bombardment.

The batteries I received (purchased concluding Mon, arrived Thursday) certainly aren't Samsungs. They are the MX18650 29P listed in OP. They appear identical to "Jake"s set up, which differ from OPs in that the PCB is similar but dissimilar, had security torx screws, and were taped downwards into the housing. My assembled unit weighed in at 709g (compared to 724g from an OEM Ryobi 4.0aH). The batteries themselves look clean/new, and whatever residue is from the blackness record used to concur the cells in identify. Tabs look pretty clean. The only real oddity in mine is i battery on the inside is labeled differently and states "DYNABAT". It'south the ane with the thinnest/shortest wrapper on its negative (pinnacle, second from right on the side with the safety record for the squirt prune). All the others take the MX18650 29P branding. I tried to get a picture, just the best I could get for readability is the "DY" portion. The but other readable print (actually difficult to read inside the pack) is 16L181000936 which I believe is merely a serial number. I do non plan to disassemble the pack, as I did but buy this as a tool battery.

The kickoff and only test I've done so far is a low describe fan test, using the Ryobi P3320 fan on loftier as the test. In this test, the battery pack appears to have done pretty well. I just used wall clocks to time this, and it ran for somewhere between 10 hours 59 minutes and xi hours and ane minute, so I'll call it xi hours even. Subsequently information technology powered off, the bombardment indicator light did non illuminate at all! It was late into the dark (well, early into the morning), and so I slept and allow it sit for 8 hours. In the morning, the battery test showed ane/four bars again. A quick voltage check showed 15.64V across the pack. Balance beyond the cell banks ranged from 3.10V to three.14V, so decent on the balance.

I'grand currently doing a run test on the aforementioned fan with an OEM Ryobi four.0aH bombardment for direct comparison, but take some fourth dimension to go, simply brusque of 6 hours into that test, so a bit to go in that location still, I'll update when it completes.

Edit: The OEM Ryobi four.0aH battery clocked in at 7hrs28m on the same fan test.

Information technology ended at 13.1V, but is slowly climbing support (up to 13.82V now after four.75hrs, but I'll wait until 8 hours to test over again, which is when I measured the Vanon battery post-load) after sitting.

This bombardment is a bit older, with a 2015 mfg date, unknown how many cycles I've run thorough it, as I have several batteries I alternate. Edit 2: Afterward sitting for 8 hours after depletion, the bombardment has stabilized to 13.95V compared to 15.64V from the Vanon.

Assuming the Ryobi OEM bombardment is pretty shut to 4.0aH (every bit it has known reliable cells), that would put this Vanon somewhere effectually 5.8aH, which for unknown cells is pretty decent, but that is just with a low amp draw test. I'yard not certain I accept a reliable high amp draw exam.