Is a Clone Ryobi One Plus Battery Worth Buying? Clone vs Real Ryobi Battery

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I decided to try one of the far more affordable clone batteries to replace a Ryobi One Plus Battery. In this video, I use a practical test of capacity and output current.

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@Kevinrichardsonministries 2 ай бұрын

Good Test.... I was just considering buying clones... and now I'll go with Ryobi. Thanks again...

@Lsmith-ly2cm Ай бұрын

I have 2 4 generic batteries they run my drivers and trimmer just fine for the last 3 yrs . I bought them for$35 dollars for the pair. Way better the the ryobi for price. thank you for the video.

@whitewater-video Ай бұрын

You're welcome. The video was meant to be an unbiased informative test, not a war against clone batteries. Thanks for the comment.

@ubreakitirepairit3569 Ай бұрын

When I started buying Ryobi tools; aside from any original Ryobi batteries that came with the tool, I only bought the aftermarket ones. I always thought that they were excellent batteries, just up until I just recently started using my Ryobi tools professionally. I'm currently doing some demo work which has required me to run my brushless Ryobi HP tools for extended periods of time. Example, I needed to make about a 20 foot cut through roofing shingle (not overlapped) and plywood on a flat roof. My brushless HP circular saw would stop from time to time. I originally thought the saw couldn't handle cutting through the plywood and shingle material at the same time. And this was with a brand new Diablo blade on it. But when I swapped out the battery to the genuine 4aH battery, it didn't stop at all. I also had the same issue when I ran the circular saw through a plywood subfloor with a sheet of linoleum on top of it. Both times the blade was set as minimal as possible to eliminate any extra friction. After some of my other Ryobi tools randomly stopped doing other various things, I came to the conclusion that the aftermarket battery's simply cannot deliver the necessary power that is needed when a tool gets temporarily bogged down. They basically cannot handle the voltage drop, and will cause the tool to stop. In any event where the tool will not be put under heavy stress, then the aftermarket batteries work perfectly fine. Otherwise, original is better.

@ubreakitirepairit3569 Ай бұрын

@user-rn1br5tq5j yeah. I only have 4ah and up batteries.

@whitewater-video 10 күн бұрын

That is true. But I compared the 9AH batteries, not the little ones.

@dell177 23 сағат бұрын

My drill and driver (2ah batteries) are over 15 years old and batteroes don't last forever. Thtee years back i bought a clone 4ah battery and it worked fins, I suspected it really wasn't 4ah but I didn't really care. This spring one of the original 2ah cells was not doing well so I bought a pair of 4ah clones from Amazon. Both worked but only one would accept a charge, the other one still worked but the charger indicated it as a bad battery so I made arrangements to return them - can't return just one. I bough a different pair off amazon and both of those powered the drill but neither wpuld accept a charge. That means 75% of yhe batteries i bought this year were bad - I don't care how cheap something is it ain't worth it if it don't woik. BTW that one clone I bought a few years back worked just fine. Sounds like some of the new clones are just bad. I then fond a pair of RTobi 4ah batteries at a good price on ebay and both worked and would accept a charge. These cost close to twice what the other sets did but 100% of them worked. What do you think?

@stchman 14 күн бұрын

Go OEM all the way. I had my first OEM Ryobi battery go bad after 10+ years (countless charge cycles). I bought some of those "clone" batteries from Amazon or ebay and they all went bad inside of a year.

@tomanth4981 Ай бұрын

I bought clones for my Ryobi, and I find the clones are MUCH better!

@whitewater-video Ай бұрын

For what tool? How are they better? Have you checked the strength of the tool between a Ryobi & clone of the same size?

@patrickward163 Жыл бұрын

I first started off with a cloned 9.0ah battery, then I bought a genuine Ryobi 9.0ah battery. I noticed the runtime in my grinder, no surprise that the genuine one outlasted the cloned one. When I bought the genuine 9.0ah battery, exactly the same one you've got. It was imported into my country, The United Kingdom by a stockist

@davebuts1921 13 күн бұрын

Have a few Ryobi Batteries and a few Clone ones, when you get three for the price of one, a true comparison should be x3 for the clone so 18 for the Ryobi 12.5 x 3 = 37.5 for the same money. Big difference in the performance to price there mate. Also, most important you have 3 batteries so you have at least 1 charging 1 ready to go while you are using one, the Ryobi when it's dead, there is not one ready or one charging, it needs to be charged. Also, you will need to charge the Ryobi 3x more than the clones, which would be an interesting challenge, also if a battery did go down, I would rather have a 3 in 1 chance than nothing. The smart purchase would be the clones, I can not argue with maths. Go clones every time.

@whitewater-video 12 күн бұрын

But they can't deliver the current required to make the tools run at full speed. I could hear, see and feel the difference on a weed whacker, air compressor, grinder, and generator (starter).

@davebuts1921 10 күн бұрын

@@whitewater-video True but now you need the Ryobi HG batterys to get full power, there even more in price.

@Trildin Ай бұрын

Somewhat helpful but more info would be awesome. How long did each tank fill take? How many bars of battery life on the ryobi when you stopped at 18 cycles?

@whitewater-video Ай бұрын

As I recall, the Ryobi was showing 1 bar, but was wasn't done. It didn't have a lot left. I just didn't want to run it dead.

@vatoloco6536 2 ай бұрын

not bad for 40$ i found a clone one at the pawnshop for 10 bucks lol

@whitewater-video 2 ай бұрын

$10 is a fair price!

@seandoherty6215 5 ай бұрын

I think they are deff worth it. You get .5x the ah for 3x the price. The math is clear

@whitewater-video 5 ай бұрын

If you're using a low load device, it might make sense. But for high current devices like the air pump, you're just wasting time.

@Lsmith-ly2cm Ай бұрын

Dollar for dollar Ryobi batteries are too expensive. The generic batteries dollar for dollar are a better buy.

@whitewater-video Ай бұрын

But not if they don't run the tool well. The Ryobi batteries spin the air compressor in this video faster and fill the tank faster. Grinders, saws, drills, etc need high current to produce high torque. If you're comparing AH capacity per dollar you might be right, except that you'd need to calculate actual AH from both Ryobi & clone to get a valid equation and decision there. It is clear that a 9AH battery from Ryobi has more AH than a 9AH clone battery.