Dewalt 5.0 AH Batteries

Are they worth it? Been using the 4.0 AH for awhile, thought about upgrading. Mainly want the 5.0 for my saws and grinder.

same quality, same design, same weight, just longer runtime

I have about 16 in use

in Germany they are approx. 100€ each

and 6,Ah is also a bit away; tooo long to wait !!!!!!!!!!!

in this respect I just learned something interesting why companies are still holding back

(to produce / manufacture 6,0AH is Not the problem)

The Problem is shipping ; 6Ah batteries are in category hazardous material and have to be shipped in special way

and the value EU regulation can´t be higher than 100

example battery 5Ah and 18v ==> 5×18 = 90 (sorry don´t know the unit) so ok with “normal shipping”

6Ah x 18V ==> 6×18 = 108 !! > 100 = hazordous material ( I assume at least double price in shipping cost; so no business case, as the majority of consumers will not pay this 

good news:

EU is working on changing the limit value to 160 ( maybe end of year)

means also that shipping a DeWalt battery with 36V and 4AH would be ok

36×4 = 144; hence smaller than 160

cheers

mike

So far I only got one 5.0Ah battery for my radio. I was going to buy some more, but I think I’m gonna sit this one out.

Seeing how fast DeWALT went from 4.0 to 5.0 and my cordless stuff is mostly 4.0 already I think I’m gonna jump on the 6.0 train once it arrives.

I think its going to be best to wait a year and sit this one out. Milwaukee was kind of slow to the 5.0ah game I wonder if they are going to go straight to 7.0 possibly the 1.0 increments are kinda getting lame its like Apple has got in the power tool market with incremental updates.

I can’t justify the price difference between 4ah and 5ah. The price per ah Is too high on the 5ah battery packs

Could you imagine an 8.0an battery pack. My concern at that point would be charge times and the only tool’s that would benefit are the really high draw ones like saws and SDS drills for the most part. It would be cool to see an portable cordless jobsite tablesaw one of these days.

I would love to see a small job site table saw .

 I dint think it is that far away.

put 2 36v batteries side by side to create 68 volts and 5 or 6ah

look at the Makita 18volt x2 circ saw

that looks great . imagine that upside down in a small frame

Alan m wrote:

I would love to see a small job site table saw .

I dint think it is that far away.

put 2 36v batteries side by side to create 68 volts and 5 or 6ah

I don’t think you’ll need that many volts. A photo of a 20V Miter saw was stolen of one of DeWalt’s promo videos a short time ago.

More power, ugh,ugh

I’m still patiently waiting on a 5ah m12 pack 🙁