Be careful, most dewalt batteries do not have internal low voltage protection. Meaning you can over discharge them like this and the charger will refuse to recharge them seeing the lower than expected voltage as damage. There are tricks to getting them to recharge however a cheap low voltage dropout circuit needs to be added to protect the battery.

@@D3M3NT3Dstrang3r 6:14 agreed. The battery's display going down to one bar is enough to switch it over to the lead acid or another DeWalt for us. You usually have a decent 10-20 min window there too.

@@TorqueTestChannel I wonder if Ryobi wouldn't be an ideal option, as if I recall correctly the batteries all have low voltage protection built into it.

@@TorqueTestChannel That works as long as people know that and keep en eye on it. I do these types of projects with tool batteries often and generally use my Ridgids as they have protection. Also there are some great cheap batteries on the market to do these projects with, unfortunately that is why they are cheap, all of the load balancing is in the charger and protection is in the tool and not the battery. Im sure you know this, it is more of a tidbit of info for the people who may now try it since watching this.

@@elijahwatson8119 Just about any tool that is using a battery platform from the earliest lithium tools like Ryobi / Ridgid have the balancing and protection built in. You can usually search and see which ones do. But there are also a couple of ways to get a good idea by just looking at the battery and price at least when it is name brand vs namebrand. Cheap batteries like Kobalt for example are good batteries but significantly cheaper because the load balancing is in the charger and protection is in the tool. And secondly look at the number of pins the battery has. If it only has about 4 actual terminals the protection is probably in the battery. If it has multiple small connections then load balancing is definitely in the charger which is a good indication that the oc protection is likely in the tool. One exception all batteries should have over current protection in the form of a non replaceable fuse to prevent fire. Ones with built in protection have a fuse and an overcurrent cut off that protectes the battery and fuse. Consider a current limiting device if you are using a battery with it not built in as well.

They do need father's ! 💪🏼

If she ain't a daddy's girl now, I really hope this mod really helped.

"Awww, are you watching the daka-daka channel?" (Well, to elaborate, the little one lumps all the technical/tool/AvE channels I watch under "daka-daka", this channel would technically be "beans" or "Ugga-Duggas" in her system) Start them young, they won't need no stinkin' boyfriend to change their flats.

😂 my dads always busy but i could see this being very fun if i was just liker her age lol

That battery was a helluva bit on EBay from part outs. $110 plus tax and free shipping.

@@stevenpurvis6195 sure was

You and Torque are both awesome dads!

@@jonathansherwood5841 appreciate that Jonathan. How’s things goin man?

you're* you are.

My exact same thought, already had the battery I guess.

Mo powa babeh

Although we all know a smaller ah can be picked up cheaper, I wonder how many times the lead acid would need to be replaced vs the Dewalt. My experience with the small lead acid batteries is that while they start with good current and decent runtime this fades off rater quick as they are constantly being deep cycled.

@@TheCharleseye and most likely many many more recharge cycles as well.

Those doing this mod are using batteries they already have so it's $0.

Same here brother 👊

First few years of my life was like 60% hamburger helper so I feel ya😂😂

@@rileymannion5301 👊🤣

@@rileymannion5301 Is that like Panburger Partner for rich people? 😉

@@ScottRipley nah it's boxed beef stroganoff like panburger partner, panburger is just the off brand version which in Canada when I was growing up we didn't get, only hamburger helper lol

Dont tell her about speed 2 hahaha

At her age if I had one of these… I would’ve already unlocked 2nd gear by myself…and I would’ve stolen my dads battery out of the lawn mower and hooked it up

@@tjlovesrachel sorry bad ass

DeWalt batteries have an internal BMS which will protect the cells from over charge and over discharge. I have run my batteries until they cut off by themselves with no adverse effects. The DeWalt battery is 15-21 volt battery while lead acid is usually 10-14.2 volts, which is why the Power Wheels moves faster

@@winmancaboose For instance Milwaukee M18s packs won't protect themselves. When I run regular 5.0 to zero charge (i.e. to a point where any M18 tool wouldn't even start), and then when I put it on a noname 18V leaf blower that has 3D printed adaptor for M18s batteries, it would still run, which would leave me to believe the battery itself won't shut down past 15 V and it will provide power even past the critical point (

@@carsandtools Ryobi batteries won't protect themselves from running down past 14V. I've had a handful 1.5 and 2Ah batteries get "bricked" from non-use and won't take a charge. But I was able to jump start these by opening them up and using a fresh battery and wires to bring them up to the minimal voltage required to take a charge. I guess it would work the same on an M18 battery, though

I hot rodded my sons car and he kept driving until it wouldn’t move and bricked the batteries. I jumped them and got one to take a charge. The other one it happened to never worked again.

@@luisinhoens90 Ryobi batteries are known for self discharge due to the BMS not being constructed properly, newer ones seem to not have this problem.

Agreed. She’s a TTC representative lol.

They will need new tires soon.

What can I search the kits under ?

@@TheCharleseye Having the protection circuits in the battery does not make it inherently better though as long as you stick with the intended usecase, where that protection circuitry is build into the tool. In theory building the circuits into the tool can(!) reduce production overhead and therefore cost, at no downside for the customer really. For the average customer this definitely is not a matter of better or worse, as it makes no difference as long as you dont tinker with it.

@@TheCharleseye having the LVC in the Battery is am incredibly inefficient design and as long as you use the dewalt battery in dewalt tools the LVC in the tool takes care of it….. ryobi does that so they can brag about backwards compatibility to their NI-CD tools

@@TheCharleseye well of course it can happen especially if the battery gets cold or there are multiple days between it getting drained and getting charged back up ….. not arguing anything

@@TheCharleseye I had to do that a lot (jump starting the battery so that it would charge) with my Milwaukee 9.0 Ah HD. I was still using it almost daily (carpentry) for another almost year or two, when it finally got to the point it couldn't even be jump started anymore, so I took it apart and it finally dawned on me that all along one/some of the cells went bad. I manually balanced the five cells, and got another 6 months out of the battery; now it's finally dead and waiting for refurbishing. Still debating whether to tackle it myself (I would need to get a spot welder) or whether to send it off to someone who actually knows what are they doing.

@@TheCharleseye I've jump started a few Ryobi batteries, some of them were even brand new but DOA (mostly 1.5Ah and 2Ah batteries), but have never needed to do so on my DeWalt, Milwaukee nor Bosch batteries. And I've owned many from the cheapo 1.5Ah to 6Ah ones. Perhaps the 3Ah and bigger Ryobi batteries have such protection because I've never needed to jump start those ones, but the smaller ones definitely don't have such feature. Anyway it's a quick 15 minute fix I've mastered over the years.

What is a discharge controller?

@@Inalienablerights15 Shut the device off/cuts power when it hits a certain low point He mentioned this at 6:20 ish. Running a battery completely dead like that is bad for it and ill kill it fast. Some controllers help to prevent damage to expensive batteries and/or components that need specific values.

This is a great idea. I'm not sure exactly how this 15 ah dw battery is made, but from my understanding, all previous dw batteries have no battery protection and instead rely on battery protection in the tool, where's other brands like Milwaukee have battery protection built in the battery. That's why I'm a bit hesitant about using my DW batteries with adapters in other brand tools. Would be a shame to kill a $400 battery by discharging it too much.

@@Fpsnut Same thing for over temperature, it’s up to the tool to read the battery probe.

Its actually very difficult to do but not impossible. Brushless motors are shaped differently which makes them difficult to attach. Also the shaft and the number of teeth on the cog that come with the motor has to be the correct amount of teeth and correct size cog, if not it will destroy the cars grearing.

Yep 15Ah is also perfect for the new dewalt 20V ratchet

@@genius3258 not even bulky or anything 😅

Will do. Around 5hrs worth so far no issues

@b gg Not sure if TTC deleted my comment or YT did. There's kits on amazon around $20-30 that include a buck converter and a DeWalt battery adapter. Sure, you might not gain any beans but my intent is just to have easily swappable batteries compared to the lead acid.

You could get a better vehicle for him you know? The 5 year old neighbor kid had a 2-stroke ATV since he was 4 and now also a 50cc dirtbike. These electric toys seem a bit overprotective, time to step up.

Stock powerwheels can run pretty reliably on 18V nominal, ie ~16 - 20 volts. Above 20V, the motors can fail, and the gearbox life drops a good amount as well due to the increased torque.

Lol. Step 1 know ur kid. She ALWAYS wants to go faster. Its me who is the whimp about her doing so

They probably wouldn't because some sue happy brain let would crash and sue

Oh don't worry. I'm an idiot too

Lol I threw my 18V 8Ah battery in my step-kid's 6V police tricycle because he had outgrown it and we were gonna take it to the dump anyways. Crazy fast, but that thing was smoking after an hour hahah. It also made the siren and police lights go haywire

Careful with that! Lost grip means long lift. More grip is asking a lot of those plastic gears