How To Revive A Cordless Drill Battery. One is a generic 6-cell pack for an HP Pavilion Dv 5 to Dv 6-series laptop and a pack from an ancient 2004 vintage digital camera rated at 74 volts and 1500 mAh. When you look into it you find that the cost a new battery is so high that you may as well just buy a new drill.

How to recondition your cordless tool battery yourself. I am taking apart two battery packs in this tutorial. You have a drill or other power tool with rechargeable batteries but one of the batteries is completely dead and when you plug it into the recharger unit it wont recharge at all.
Put your 18 volt cordless battery in the charging unit.
Time is a rechargeable battery will lose its ability to continue no fee will be more. One at a time that is Now clamp the positive red side of the jumper cables onto one end of the wire. Insert the battery back into the drill and turn it on to make sure it is back up to full speed. Put your 18 volt cordless battery in the charging unit.
