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- #189,642 in Industrial & Scientific (See Top 100 in Industrial & Scientific)
- #1,279 in Vacuum Replacement Batteries
- #2,045 in Commercial Vacuum Accessories
Zilacon
Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2024
Arrived charged, correct voltage and capacity. Works out of the box with no issues.
Leo M
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2024
I got 2 of these same batteries and tested both on a digital capacity tester before and after a full charge. The test results are better than I've seen compared with some other power tool batteries. They both came in with about 2.5Ah charge, and after a full charge, they both came out to be very close to 5.5Ah and around 80Wh, which although they are not the 6.8Ah rating as stated, I would qualify that as a fairly decent close considering how awful other new batteries prove to be compared to their rating nowadays. They both ran for about 4hrs 7min to 4hrs 10 minutes in my test until depleted to 5-10% of their total capacity before the discharge test was stopped from collapsing the battery to 0Vdc.So, the 2 batteries tested almost identical, the only difference being that this one costs about 39% more.I did not open these battery packs to see if they include a BMS protection circuit, and in terms of battery manufacturing quality, only time will tell their longevity and reliability.I'm not sure how the capacity rating on these batteries have been decided, I can suspect that if they are tested with a very small load, their capacity number could potentially get closer to their 6.8Ah rating, but that still doesn't help the user because that would not be anywhere close to a typical load in the real application.However, I chose to size up the load according to what battery manufacturers typically use when they rate the capacity of power tool batteries, which is a discharge rate of 0.2C (or C/5, meaning the battery is discharged over a period of 5 hours). I found that this rate is considered a standard for providing a consistent and reliable measure power tools battery's capacity, and a cordless vacuum actually falls in pretty much the same category and usage demand. Today's manufacturers take a lot of freedom in advertising their battery capacity for marketing reasons, so in order to find out how the posted Ah rates compare with the reality out there, I used a digital battery capacity tester and set it up for a C/5 discharge rate (1.36A constant load in our case) and monitored the battery until discharged down to 9V when there’s only about 5-10% of its total capacity remaining. At this point, the voltage is already past the "knee" of the discharge curve that typically occurs when the battery has around 20-30% of its total capacity remaining and when the voltage starts to drop rapidly, indicating that the battery is nearing depletion, and the tool is pretty much "dead". In real life however, these batteries are being hit much harder than my test, as vacuum cleaners generally draw their batteries down at a much faster rate and become unusable at an earlier discharge point than the one chosen in my test.
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