Milwaukee m18 fuel batteries

[cobfly]

Bought 2 , 2 packs of 6amp and 8amp red lithium Milwaukee, branded Milwaukee, with new build dates and proper serial numbers, in proper packaging, not knockoffs, on eBay. 8 amp after 6 uses would not recover for a charge. 6 amp after about 6 uses will only draw down 25%. Never had trouble with 5's. What gives? All my 5's are a few years old, the others are 2026. Are they having quality control issues? Or are counterfeiters getting good at disguise. These were from eBay stores.

[sandhiller]

Dang Cob

Wonder if you didn't get stuck with some counterfeit ones???

I have a bunch of 2, 5, 6 and 8's and have not had one go bad/not hold or take a charge yet

Hope you have some recourse with them, get replaced or rufunded. 

Don't really know how Ebay works, I guess

[Gearclash]

eBay and Amazon are full of counterfeit products.  That is why I do not buy mission critical bearings from either source.  They have to come from a known dealer supply chain to satisfy me.  I would hold lithium ion batteries to the same standard. 

[cobfly]

All the fine print stamping on the batteries says they are legit. But who knows. Guess I'll buy from town.

[OFFTHEFARM]

 

Have a look at this. They have been getting better at copying oems. I only buy at stores just because of that.

[cobfly]

41 minutes ago, OFFTHEFARM said:

 

Have a look at this. They have been getting better at copying oems. I only buy at stores just because of that.

Welp, there you go. Store bought only from here on out. Thanks

[edwardporter1]

I bought counterfeits  online. Never again.  I will pay the premium. No life in them after a short period of time

[IHC_1470]

Glow plugs for the 6.9 and 7.3 Navistar engines are the same issue. Sad the world is coming to this.

[sandhiller]

17 minutes ago, edwardporter1 said:

I bought counterfeits  online. Never again.  I will pay the premium. No life in them after a short period of time

 

I knowingly bought some counterfeits once

Then I starting reading reviews about how they don't have the internal circuitry that the real ones have, safety and such

Reports of explosions and fires when charging

I said the heck with it and threw them in the burn barrel before I even tried to charge them once. 

$30 lesson applied on you get what you pay for 

[Wisconsin Ron]

Hold battery button down and see if they go into diagnostic mode. If they original Milwaukee they will have the codes telling status, how many days in service, and how many times been on charger. Kinda interesting. There was a few year stretch Milwaukee did away with diagnostic circuitry. 

[cobfly]

These online ones never would. There ya go. Another sign .

[Wisconsin Ron]

Here is chart I go by. Here the pair of counterfeit I got. I didn't even have to open package to press buttons to see if they had diagnostics. They went back to ebay for refund. 

[vtfireman85]

That stinks, I have some batteries that are 10 years old and going strong. 

[ChrisNY]

Have had good luck with the M18 batteries but the M12’s not so much

[Sask466]

They are probably coming out of the other end of the same factory.  

The packaging and plastic is the easy/low cost part to fake I guess. 

I heard an interesting thing about counterfeit stuff - it has to be high enough value to make a margin/cover the risk.  That’s why they make fake Rolex’s but not fake Timex watches.  
 

So you are more safe buying the cheaper version - Probably they don’t make fake Ryobi or Harbour Freight stuff!

*edit - nevermind my Ryobi comment, a quick search indicates there is counterfeit stuff all over the interwebs.  

[wild one]

Maybe all this counterfeit stuff will be beneficial to all the brick and mortar stores that sell name brand items.

[acem]

19 hours ago, cobfly said:

Bought 2 , 2 packs of 6amp and 8amp red lithium Milwaukee, branded Milwaukee, with new build dates and proper serial numbers, in proper packaging, not knockoffs, on eBay. 8 amp after 6 uses would not recover for a charge. 6 amp after about 6 uses will only draw down 25%. Never had trouble with 5's. What gives? All my 5's are a few years old, the others are 2026. Are they having quality control issues? Or are counterfeiters getting good at disguise. These were from eBay stores.

You bought them off Ebay and they don't work.

Demand a refund.

Don't matter if they are genuine or not.  Since they don't work, get your money back.

Actually it suprises me they don't work. I have friends who use off brand batteries with good luck. 

[cobfly]

They work for a while. Weed eater puts quite a draw on them. 100% duty cycle for about 12-15 amp hours.

[stronger800]

Milwaukee has their own warranty, it doesn’t matter where you purchased it. If you think the numbers on them look legitimate, call Milwaukee service, send them the battery and they send you another one. I did it once, before I realized it was my charger in that shop that was actually the problem. They emailed me back and said the battery looks fine check your charger.   

[New Englander]

I bought an EGO 56V replacement battery - not marked up as a counterfeit and it seems to work as well as the OEM. The thing I worry about though is that counterfeits will run away while charging and burn the shop down. There are enough laptops and phones burning up on airplanes that they make special containers for the crew to place them in. Interestingly what I thought was a logical place to put one, the ice drawer, is not recommended rather put them in the sink and run water or soft drinks over them to cool them. If already burning put fire out with halon or water extinguisher then cool. Trouble is they tend to blow up! Plenty of videos on battery fires especially counterfeits

[Rawleigh99]

I have my chargers on one hour timers to hopefully at least minimize that chance. It's pretty scary.