Dewalt Battery Won't Charge / Charger Has No Lights Simple Fix

[@MWS67]

WOW!!! I can't believe that worked. I got 2 dewalt 20v (2ah) batteries from a store that was throwing them away. The customer brought them back because they were dead. I put them on my charger and got nothing. Then I found this video. I used some wire to connect them to one of my battries for about 3 seconds each and now they are charging just fine.I learn something new every day. Thank you 😁😁

[@Neuro_Divergent]

I was just about to buy a new charger thinking it must have been faulty, when i came across this video. The trick saved me a lot of time and money, I am thankful. It works!

[@justinzabel88]

This worked for me…THANK YOU! 8 month old battery barely used. I suspect it does not like being completely drained, mine was powering the Dewalt inflator airing up an extremely low set of tires. Died while trying to air up the last one. I used my Schumacher battery charger set to 40a, just gave it a quick tap to get a tiny spark. Charging fine now.

[@chrisdarazsi6325]

You're right, it's amazing that this needs to be done. Both my 20v batteries stopped charging, no light on the charger. I contacted Dewalt and, to their credit, they were easy to deal with and sent me a new charger. When that didn't work, it was clear to me that it was the battery that was the problem, not the charger. I had even gone to Lowe's and bought another charger, that I was able to return when it didn't help. Thanks for the vid. The batteries are charging right now!

[@TheKezzla]

THIS WORKED FOR ME!! I didn't have a battery jump starter and read in the comments here someone tried a regular 9v battery...like the kind that goes in a smoke detector... So I also tried a 9v battery with the razer blades and my dcb203 battery is now charging! I threw away at least 4 relatively new batteries recently with the same issue.. I bet all of them could have been jump started like this. THANK YOU !!!

[@NabilSawaya-rl3kw]

just did it with a 9v battery: worked great. Thanks

[@MojoMagic977]

20v 5AH just worked for me using a spare charged dewalt same style battery. Used 14 AWG speaker wire, two razor blades and two sparks later, battery is now charging /blinking in the charger. U deserve an award.

[@kylereichstein7578]

Dude I am going to give this a go tomorrow. I’ve got about 12 - 60V batteries and 2 are dead. I’m sick of spending $200+ for these batteries just for them to bug up within a year. Dewalt needs to make some changes! Thanks for the tip man! 🔥

[@GRIDMASTER6]

Wow, you've just saved me load of cash my friend. I jumped the battery using four blades, two in each of my batteries and it worked straight away. Thanks for the tip .

[@MADDFAC3]

I can’t tell you how much this helped me. I just purchased a DeWalt cordless screwdriver for $100 bucks. It came with two batteries, a charger and tool bag so obviously a deal only problem is, the batteries wouldn’t charge. I brought it home and attempted to charge them for three hours and nothing. I found this video and tried it with a battery from a drill I have that does work and presto... the batteries are both now charging. You are a genius. Thank you. I’ll let you know if I get a full charge and a general update.

[@MADDFAC3]

Quick update. I got both batteries fully charged and everything is working fine. Thanks again.

[@peterquaker9369]

just tried this with a 12v car battery charger and it works, my dewalt battery now charges. Thanks for the upload.

[@dbsurfer321]

Thanks so much! Just did this with my new 20v max 2AH battery. Worked perfectly! I used a battery tender for about 1-2 seconds hooked to the blades. Turned it off and now it is charging! What a weird issue but great easy fix!

[@YanooshGakagoosh]

Thanks a lot for sharing this information. Had a Dewalt battery fail on second charge. Jumped it with a 12v motorcycle battery as you showed. Sparked and is now charing on charger. Excellent! Thanks again!!

[@sa..0.0.7]

Thank you for this video! You saved me a lot of headaches and troubleshooting. I bought a brand new battery and charger kit, used the battery a few times, and then when it came time to recharge the battery for the first time, I was getting no lights on my charger. I was a bit skeptical trying this out. I tried with a 9V battery as some folks said, but that didn't work for me - possibly the battery was just a bit low. I also tried with my portable booster, but that didn't work either for some reason. My final attempt was using booster cables with my car battery. I saw a couple of sparks as you mentioned in the video, brought the battery back in and put it into the charger, and it started charging! (Charger is currently flashing red, which indicates that it is charging). Great trick, thank you!

[@robbieanderson4674]

Watched this and circumstances identical new battery, charger, and just wasn’t used yet. Just went thru very cold weather here in Texas and battery was in truck. Did not really think it would work didn’t seem logical to have to jump start it. Used dimes and IT WORKED - started charging and took a full charge. Totally impressed! Thank You!

[@fixinstuff4374]

No problem. Glad it worked for you. I have friends in Texas and their power was out due to the snow storm.

[@garrettoliver4399]

Never mind I read some of the other comments and took a stab at it hoping I didn’t fry my 250$ batteries. But it’s worked great. Finally some good info on KZbin that WORKS!!!! Nice thanks again.

[@skeetlybeet2584]

Old video but I just used this to fix my 60v battery. I appreciate you dude!!! Thanks alot

[@richardhill7958]

Excellent video, I knew about the +/+ -//- jumping but never had the "right" connecting wire to connect the battery. RAZOR BLADES I GOT!!! just unboxed a brand new 4AH/20 Volt battery. Two razor blades and a charged 20 v battery and the DOA is now charging normally. Thanks

[@kevintregear2675]

This worked for me too! I used a jump pack, 12.8v. It sparked on the first touch, not so much on touch 2 & 3, but now it's charging! Thanks!

[@walterzoomie]

I love you, man. Hooked my dead battery to my truck using jumper cables. Worked a treat! Thanks!

[@WolfTank-h7o]

Hello, thank you very much, because I regretted my $280 purchase because the battery does not charge. I followed your video and it worked. Great, thank you again

[@Callawayo]

Fixed two 5h dewalt batteries with no light, thank you so much

[@boone7913]

I had 5 batteries that would not charge and there was no light on the charger. I tried it and it worked perfectly, thank you

[@Ireland831]

I tried a few other ways to fix my battery but none work. I used my battery trickle charger and the blades from my razor knife as you demonstrate here. Battery took a full charge and back in business. Thanks so much for your vid!!

[@barbarakavar4085]

THanks so much! Your right, no one else is doing it with one battery. Very Appreciative!!

[@lifer9883]

You're a lifesaver, my DeWalt charger would not light up, no led light on battery either, gave it a jumpstart with my portable AA charger, sorted 😊👍 battery now charging.

[@JayTroful]

Did this with a trickle charger, battery is on the charger and charging now. Thank you!

[@jasontheconner6120]

Wow, just wow! The 2 battery videos were all I could find too. Thank you!!!!

[@JFuentes0199]

I used this trick on a 20v 2ah and it worked! Thank you.

[@markdewolfe9364]

My DeWalt 20 V battery- the only 1 have- showed no lights in the charger. Followed this tip with a 6 volt lantern battery with no results. Got out my 12 V car charger and after a spark and 3 secs, all working perfectly. I too used the razor blades, they fit perfectly are eary to connect and readily available in your box knife. :)

[@flunder203]

You saved my battery. I followed this right down to the blades lol. Amazing. easy. Set the booster to 50 amps boost, touched the + three times and now life is perfecto. Thanks very much!

[@richarddavid6957]

Somewhat helpful but where did you tooked the power from your just showed to cables was it a car battery? Thanks for trying to help.

[@ricardorodriguez2607]

Yea I was wondering the same thing? Did he hook it up to the car battery?

[@DrengrMike]

I did it with 3 steak knives, no power source, just stick 2 in the slots according to the video and connect them with the third, it smokes a tiny bit and my knives did a little microscopic weld, then put it back on the charger and it worked like a charm, no longer than 2 seconds connected or else it might mess something up.

[@zay8452]

It works with another battery u can use speaker wire use a full 20v battery and put a wire in negative and positive then do same for the one that won’t work but only tap the negative wire to the not working one for like 3 seconds then put it on charger

[@fixinstuff4374]

Hi. Sorry for the confusion. I hooked it up to a 12 volt battery charger like a duralast.

[@rickfreeman9530]

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[@hybridaquatics7593]

I literally just had this exact scenario happen to me with a 20-volt battery. It's like if you were speaking to me directly. I only had one battery. It worked perfectly. Thank you for making this video!

[@Creeds-Creations]

Thanks I had a dead 60v Dewalt battery and this worked. Light did not even turn on when checking battery level. Now it works! What I did is that I connected to portable car battery charger left it for 5 minutes and then I connected it the charger and it started charging.

[@nickduba]

I used the same method with a 9v battery and it worked!

[@brucevonk9033]

Jumped my 60volt with a 20 volt and it is now charging..thank you!

[@ricardorodriguez2607]

Hey bud! What cable did you use? Was it regular speaker wires? I’m trying to jump my flex volt with a 20V battery but I can’t get it to charge lol

[@brucevonk9033]

I use 2 razor blades

[@ricardorodriguez2607]

Got it but what did you connect to the razors? Thanks!

[@MosaicHomestead]

The charger didn't work but the second battery trick did, Thanks a lot.

[@charliemontiel6797]

Used my car to jump start my battery, worked perfectly thank you!

[@richardstephens9912]

Cannot believe this worked, but it legit just fixed a 3 ah. I used a 4ah battery with razor blades to fix my 3ah. Thank you

[@DarrenMcGovIRL]

Top drawer my man. Thank you so much from 🇮🇪

[@lichromah6968]

You’re life saver. It will work any jump start from 6v-12v. Thanks for your video 🙏

[@evanshones7833]

I didn’t think it would actually work until I tried it and holy shit it worked!!

[@bayareadoghouse]

2 minute job that worked. Thank you!

[@Madkalibyr]

I have the same weed eater, the battery stopped charging (the charger works, just not the battery for this!) Ty for this video I can finally get to work on my crazily over grown yard

[@josholander3943]

Just curious, what amp setting did you set the car battery charger to?

[@gerrytaylor1505]

I can 100% confirm that this works. I've just tried this on a DCB185 battery that would not charge and its now charging! I used two Stanley knife blades and a battery charger set to boost.

[@EireFirst25]

Can I just put the other end of the blades into the donor battery?

[@havox112]

I did the utility blades and connected it to my battery tender and tapped the ground, took it back to the charger and it works. I bought a kit from ebay with no returns so this just saved me a good chunk of change.

[@gnicevids]

It worked great for me I use the battery charger/Maintenance with prong or the circle things and place them in the same locations as you and voila it work once I place it on the dewalt charger.

[@davidf1877]

Great video showing what to do if you can’t jump start from another battery. My FLEXVOLT has a partial charge and works on tools, but when put in charger, light briefly comes on and then goes off. I’ve tried cleaning the terminals, but makes no difference. Even though the battery still has a charge, would a jump start result in a ‘reset’ which might allow it to charge?

[@donaldbarton3816]

Yup this work for me and I’m telling everyone of my friends about this !!

[@greggtrunnell9859]

Worked exactly like you said.. THANK YOU !!! -- I used my portable booster. Worked great.

[@hearishhassan8198]

You saved me £120 battery 🔋 many thanks .

[@Rc1n4ever]

Wow 👏 dude awesome trick it saves my battery. I used a Duralast battery charger instead of a jumper starter. After a couple of sparks it was back to the life

[@fixinstuff4374]

Glad it helped. Yes thats what i used.

[@virginiaboyle6606]

Well SOB…it worked! Thank you. Btw: didn’t have jumper cables. Used 2 metal clips and let them touch once which created the spark.

[@VitorAlvimBarroso]

Are these cables connected in another power supply?

[@danielpritchard1465]

Bro you just saved me, worked like a charm

[@LoneWolfnumber1]

Your saved me good amount of cash bless you brother 😊

[@mainelywoodstone7968]

IT WORKS. I was sceptical... But it works! Thank you!

[@mainelywoodstone7968]

I used a jump pack with 12.4v, mostly dead.

[@rfgf-tv]

Hey I just tried it with a walmart battery charger and it worked. Friggin sweet man. a 20v 5ah and a 60v 6ah.

[@goldman7267]

Wow it worked. I almost threw one away and was going to buy new ones. I used a 12v battery jump starter for about 5 seconds

[@keithmorris2476]

Yes honestly was skeptical,two questions why does it work and does it work for long?

[@inandaudi]

This worked like a charm thank you sir

[@4321mookie]

100% WORKS!!!!!!! THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!!!!

[@joncarbone]

It works! Just did it. We all owe you a round. 🍻

[@bartvankan5439]

Thank you. You saved my battery!

[@shanefarrelly1172]

Blades in the battery and leads to the blades, where does the other end of the leads go ? Apologies as I didn’t catch it specifically in the video

[@joaquinmendoza1127]

Thanks for this video, it helped a lot, i knew about the wire jump from other batteries but all 4 of mine are dead. I used my portable battery car booster to bring the batteries to life, and i wish i knew this last year when i just threw out my 6 batteries which i could have saved.

[@garrettoliver4399]

What are your leads connected to and what voltage did you tap the battery with? I’m having the same problem you describe but I don’t wanna assume it’s a battery charger and if it is what setting is your box on. Thank you

[@USAFreedom4Ever]

I've tried on older craftsman battery without luck and then just tried with larger 40v Dewalt. It worked this time but be careful to only do for a few seconds. I had smaller gauge wires connected like this guy and seen wires start to droop after about 8 seconds so I could tell heating up and they were very warm.

[@Isaiiahii]

What did you have the jumper cables hooked to? Maybe I missed when you said it. I'm in the same boat as you, I only have one DeWalt battery, but mine is the 60v 6amp Flexvolt. I have Bosch, Makita, and Ridgid batteries, but do not know if hooking to any of those would work; I'm assuming it would. I don't have a portable car battery charger. I have jumper cables though. Could I hook them to my car engine and jump the battery?

[@fixinstuff4374]

No. Don't do that. I didn't have jumper cables, it was a battery charger I was using. If you have other batteries (like makita) you can jump one battery to the other with speaker wire.

[@Isaiiahii]

@@fixinstuff4374 Okay, thanks for the reply. I'll try it out. I have 5 Makita batteries, so I'll try it out with one of those.

[@fixinstuff4374]

@@Isaiiahii just make sure to connect positive to positive negative to negative and just give it a tap. If you see a spark, you know you're getting good connection.

[@Isaiiahii]

@@fixinstuff4374 Unfortunately this didn't work for me. It actually broke my Makita battery. I knew that was a risk going into it. This makes me never want to buy DeWalt again. I have a flexvolt skillsaw and flexvolt grinder that are useless unless DeWalt will replace the battery for me. I haven't heard back from them yet. I don't want to buy a new battery because it seems DeWalt has tons of issues with their batteries. I have 8 year old Bosch batteries that still work.

[@fixinstuff4374]

This shouldn't have broke your Makita unless you accidentally mixed up your pos/neg. But yes you shouldn't have to do this, and many Dewalt fans have swapped to Milwaukee.

[@RandyHulin]

What was the other end of the cables hooked to?

[@Xerom]

This worked for me! Thanks for posting this I really appreciate it!

[@johnwilson7680]

What are you jump starting it with? A car battery?

[@joseibarra5787]

Can i use my car batter and tap it like this or will it be to kuch power?

[@danielcuellar400]

It work 9.0 dewalt battery wasn't charging i use another dewalt battery and it work just put positive with positive and negative with negative thanks for the video it help alot 👍

[@johnathantaylor1513]

It does work with other DeWalt batteries. I literally just jumped a DBC203 using another DBC203 and spare wire I had laying around

[@tomcatmcgillicutty6913]

I will NEVER but another Dewalt tool,,,Got a 500 tool sitting and they can't build a damn battery and charger that's works right,,,,WTFUCKKKKK...Extremely aggrivated

[@sportsfamilynorton8132]

Thank you for the advice - it worked great!

[@JOHNPALMER64]

Great video worked like perfect on my DeWalt 12v that I almost chucked. Thanks!

[@jerrymontalbano3222]

In a similar manner, I have a Snapple 58v battery for my hedge trimmer that is not charging. Can I use the same technique using cables plus-plus and minus to minus to get a significant enough charge to put back in its charger continuing to charge fully? I don't have another 58v battery of its type, but am wondering if I can use one of my DeWalt 20v dc power drill charger wired the same way even though one is a 58v and the other 20v? Perhaps the DeWalt can charge it's 20v up to 20v in the 58v battery?

[@fixinstuff4374]

@@jerrymontalbano3222 if it was me, I'd try it. But i can't say it will or won't work but it is the same concept.

[@IANFRANCISRubert-yi3ix]

Thanks for this as I was getting frustrated-great tip that worked well, just wondering why DeWalt don’t suggest a way to do this? Or even sell a gadget to send the 3 quick charging voltage into it.

[@beegrichard165]

THIS WORKED.......THANK YOU

[@sonnydavis4691]

Thank you for this video, it helped a lot and saved me a lot of money....

[@ignaciomorales8501]

do you have to do that, every time you want to charger it?

[@田景云-w4n]

Yeah. It actually work. Thanks bro.

[@josevillanueva6992]

Nice that idea is new to me. Thanks for sharing. God bless you.

[@blackout7629]

What’s your power supply I jump box if so what’s the setting car battery

[@robbenoit6065]

What are the jumper cables hooked up to?????

[@fixinstuff4374]

@@robbenoit6065 a Sears 12volt battery charger. But some people use jumper cables from their car (i wouldn't recommend but will work).

[@elspender]

Thank you! I Did it and it worked. You are the man💯

[@TheKing-nu4fk]

Thanks alot brother it brought mine back. Cheers!

[@thesin2120]

Thank you this was very helpful !!!!

[@paullloyd-jones3282]

It worked! Thank you so much!

[@veronicamiller3380]

I have a green works 60 volt lithium battery. Will this work for this battery and if so what do I set my car charger amps to?

[@kp-qr6hy]

C😂

[@georgebarnes2112]

Worked on mine, Thank you so much!!

[@dee.f88]

Worked for me! Thanks man.

[@webbtunes9557]

You just saved my butt! Thank you 😎👍

[@morrisa23]

Are the other ends of the cable hooked to another battery?

[@bradsides9932]

You hook the battery up to a battery charger like a Duralast charger or the car jumpers.

[@Hakltz]

Thanks! Sounds great….I get the flashing charging light for a few minutes and then a solid light. Can’t charge past 1 bar….

[@fixinstuff4374]

Your battery is bad. Only one cell is good . Your charger is charging the one cell.

[@TTT-Turbo]

whats at the other end of the croc clips and what did you jump them with. Thanks I have a 54v 6am battery thats like brand new and dewalt wont touch it because i have no receipt either and the battery dates show its under 1 year old

[@fixinstuff4374]

Hi. The clips are connected to a 12v battery charger but you can use a battery jumper.

[@TTT-Turbo]

​@@fixinstuff4374Can you use a 12v large van battery that I keep on charge in the Harare to jump the batteries? Thanks Just frustrating to know this is a really new battery that won't work

[@fixinstuff4374]

@@TTT-Turbo that would work but try at your own risk

[@worktime3894]

I have the same battery was a similar issue it won't charge but when I connected to the charger it stays all red what should I do