welcome back to Steve Robb reviews today I'm going to review a product that I didn't think I
would have to buy and I did only because I waited long enough the price come down low enough and
actually I need it now and the other one will be a long-term review on some no-name batteries
that I bought for the power tools I have here for the 18 bolt and I'm going to give this power tool
battery a 1-star and that's about it one star because the only reason why I'd give it one
star is for the price so first of all this is the little bit of a gizmo here that I bought and I'll
open it up and all it does is convert this is the 20 volt end here and this is the 18 volt here and
we'll get to that in a minute first of all I want to show you this is the 18 volt the Walt circular
saw and yeah that's a fully charged battery but it was really cold here I just have the heat on
but these batteries just suck and they suck big time the name on these are energy tech I'll show
you right there energy tech guys these were half the price of a Dewalt battery I'll just show you
here I write the date on everything i buy and where's the developers there we go right there
there's 2012 is the bomb it does the job and if you don't live in a cold climate these are just
fine as far as I'm concerned but don't buy the aftermarket NiCad batteries and I pretty well
switched everything over to the 20 volt now and that's why I needed the adapter now these two
batteries I got for half the price I'll be regular Dewalt battery and I got half the value so I would
not recommend these I would say just stick with the brand named Walt batteries I think they are
the best choice so since these batteries are so bad and I do have like a you know an old battery
and they you know that had left from Dewalt I decide to go everything with the 20 volt and I'll
just take the cap off here and we'll put it in this is the 18 bolt right here circular saw snap
that right in there and all off to get a battery off of this one and if I can get it I've done here
and snap it in there you go now you can't tell it does add a little bit of length on here but
now I can use my 20 volt batteries lithium ion cold or not and they perform salt I originally
started with this here and this is just an awesome impact wrench and this is my old
one so now that I have the adapter kit I'll have batteries that I can use and of course
in the circular saw and that's just terrific for me I mean for the price I paid it's well worth it
since my batteries are pretty well toasted the 18 volt batteries and the lithium ion just perform
like just like from night and day there's no way I could go back to the 18 volt NiCad the lithium
is the way to go and just to show you here the difference here's the two Chargers and nothing
really big to look at but I'll tell you what the lithium batteries charged up a lot faster than the
NiCad and as far as I'm concerned I really can't see why anybody would want to go with the 18 volt
technology today if you have the opportunity to get into the 20 volt and up that's what I would do
and I mean this is this is a 20 volt Walt it runs fine then we'll take the 18 volt and at one runs
great too and the only difference is as you can see between the two of them yeah you can see where
the batteries connect and you've got a little bit of a difference in length but who really
cares about that right so I mean it still plugs in and plugs out just like before and this is
the first time for me doing it okay so let's take the other back feel first maybe okay this is real
time stuff okay now the one thing I do must say about the wall is all their stuff fits properly
and I did find the aftermarket batteries really didn't fit that great no to unclick this one okay
guys this is real it's the first time for me and I don't know if I'm pressing on the wrong thing
or what I'm doing wrong but I'm telling you that baby's in there and it's in there good so okay
man oh man youse guys take a look in there and you could see there's like these John's here
Wow like I mean okay guys you got hey I don't stay journalist this is all real okay sometimes
when you're on YouTube you look at CL stun jar okay oh okay I'm pressing here like a wingnut
and all you have to do is just press further in and you could see how it presses down okay
that's my fault it's nutballs fault okay guys I just thought I'd show you the difference and
yeah stay away from that aftermarket battery I'm not too impressed with it I would say the
vault is the way to go the 18 volt is fine if you live in a warm enough climate but for
me yeah I'm chucking all this stuff out all the 18 volts I will recycle them I will not
throw them in the garbage and that's another thing you should do so thank you very much for
joining me here today and I hope you like this review come back again if you have seen this
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