I Figured Out What DeWALT's Huge $400 Battery is For😄(Kids Power Wheels) 

1.5 year Update: She's a bit older now and on setting 2 for ALL the fun, loves it. The car's been holding together just great, loosing traction is probably key. Obviously this isn't a cost savings mod unless you already have power tool batteries, they aint cheap. But if you do? Adapters for DeWalt: amzn.to/390Dm7Y M18: amzn.to/3uAiXBf Makita:amzn.to/3GlJXao Ryobi: amzn.to/3jNRIuD Ridgid amzn.to/36uSVE4 Plug end for Peg Perego: amzn.to/3jNRxz8 Power Wheels: amzn.to/480wtg9

Nothing is so wholesome as spending quality time with your kid(s)...and playing with their toys! Kids need their fathers in their lives, too!

You replaced an $80 battery with a $400 battery. I love it.

As a father myself...hearing my own daughter's giggle makes every day a great one!

Have the 10 amp hour dewalt on my sons 12v mustang. Major improvement. Huge fan of the channel man. Being a father myself I can tell just by the way you interact with your daughter your an awesome Dad. I love the family interaction content from the tool channels. I think it’s something we need to incorporate more often on our channels. 👊👊👊 keep up the awesome work my man

She's having so much fun. I always wanted one of those when I was a kid, but we couldn't afford it. Now that I have kids, I got some for them, and it's so awesome seeing them drive around smiling.

Gotta unlock that 2nd speed let her really feel the beans!

Brings back memories of doing the same almost 20yrs ago, although with nicad batteries. The surprise on their faces and all the laughter was priceless.

Been doing this for years. Ebay sells kits to connect batteries like to to many things. And let her go to 2nd gear. She'll learn how to drift.

Probably wouldn't be too hard to add a simple low voltage cut off circuit to protect the battery. Thanks guys, looks like a fun time.

Put a low voltage cutoff module set to 16,2v inline with the battery….. you’re gonna kill it if you discharge it too low. There is no protection inside the dewalt battery. If you used a ryobi battery you wouldn’t need to worry about that as they have cutoff circuitry internally

Been doing this since the 90s. Lately (last few years), Sloppy Mechanics had a good series of videos on Milwaukee powered kid's vehicles. Since, loads of parents out there have been posting good conversion videos here on RU-vid. Usually shreds out the plastic gearboxes, eventually. Keeping the voltage close to OEM is unsatisfyingly slow but safer for longevity. Voltage cutoff boards are really inexpensive and help keep any under charge/over discharge situations from bricking those pricey battery packs.

My buddy did this for his son. He also installed a voltage regulator so it's not too fast. The downside is It's easy to discharge the batteries too much then they won't charge. A low voltage disconnect would be a good idea.

I have the same Peg Porego for my daughter. I swapped in a 5ah Makita battery and this thing burns through motors. The driver side motor always goes first so I recommend upgrading the pair to one that is rated for 24v when you inevitably burn it out. Make sure to keep extra fuses in the car with the battery because you’ll pop those too when transitioning from pavement to grass. A 5 ah battery lasts about 30 minutes comfortably. I always bring two just in case and In 30 min of runtime, the battery doesn’t even get warm.

used a discharge controller with a programmable low voltage cut off when I did something similar. works great to avoid trashing the battery.

The best part about mods like this is run time and recharge time. Running 2 batteries in parallel, with just 6 batteries you can keep the vehicle running near continuously. The lead acids are just a waste of time, weight, and energy, plus when they aren’t using it you still have use of the batteries. You can add a managed battery controller which can manage the max and min voltages. I have a ton of chargers and actually used 2 of them in parallel and with a few solid state relays actually allow charging the packs in place, though even at 4/5 the kids are smart enough to swop the batteries. I like modding the chargers as battery sockets as they have enough room for the extra items needed to make mist things dual voltage and allows you to make things like LED work lights a hell of a lot cheaper, and more functional than DeWalts own products.

WHEELSPIN!!! IT burns out now! That's awesome. My older kids have one of the electric quads that Razor makes. It didn't take me long to replace the lead acid with a lithium ion creation of my own that weighs less, lasts longer, and goes faster. Oh ya... and it's smaller so I was able (later on) to build and install a smaller pack with its own leads as a reserve so it can always make it back under power if they run it too low.

Now upgrade the motor to brushless! If you're worried about the battery voltage, Amazon (et.al.) sell low-voltage battery disconnect 'circuits', which are just a board with a relay and a setting for cutout voltage. When the input voltage drops below the setting, the battery is disconnected. Most of them have a 20A relay, which might be good enough for your ride-on toy, but you could use that relay to drive a larger external relay, delivering whatever current you need. Great channel, cheers!

I would use it for driving screws with an impact... It's perfectly sized

So happy to see your daughters laughter as the mod (Dewalt 15ah) def brought dem extra beans 👍🏼 tx for sharing

You'll have to keep us updated how well the motor handles it. Been looking to convert my son's over but most said you should use a buck converter to bring the voltage down. Either way, great job dad!!

Weize makes a direct replacement LiFePo4 battery that I use in my kids electric cars. The connector off the original lead acid battery will connect directly to it. The size is identical. Excellent performance as well.

That was awesome! Good to see you guys having fun with your family too and not always at the shop! Take care

My little ones car needs this done as well, that battery is starting to show its age. Might try one of my older dewalt batteries I have around for kicks.

Lame. You should have pulled the full 60 volts. The motor might have burnt out in four seconds, but what a glorious four seconds that would be! 😅

Huge smile on my face from start to finish. Love the Chanel, loved this video. Who doesn’t love a family man? Keep up the PHENOMENAL content my dude

Great content as always- I love the family touch too, you did awesome man. Kudos 👍

I did the same thing 20 yrs ago to my sons electric Silverado. I could believe how fast it went. He could do burn outs . Bought many sets of back tires that summer. Awesome video

Cool video! You can screw bike tire tread to the wheels for extra grip.

great vid... i moded my sons raptor with a dewalt batt. and rubber wheels 2 years ago and its still running great.. looking into a better motors now...and good ide to put low voltage cut-off in line on the batt. so you don't have to worry about killing it....

Easily one of the best videos I've seen on RU-vid, love when RU-vidrs have there kids help out in videos

You made her day super excited I love kids for that reason and im envious over how kids and animals can get so much excitement and satisfaction from the littlest things I wish I had those kinds of emotions still. Hopefully she enjoys her new hot rod for years to come.

Good job dad! It’s good to see real world results from y’all’s research. 😂😜

So cool!!! Off to try something new. Thanks for the video.

I bought my daughter the exact same one and I was having problems with the tires slipping since they're hard plastic. I went to Walmart and bought the widest bike tires I could find and drilled them to the rear tires and now her Rzr grips like crazy !

When it was first turned on her laughing was adorable, she loved it, very wholesome, gosh she was so so excited, so cute

Both of your reactions were so wholesome! Both super happy! Awesome!

I’ve been wanting to do this on my sons for a long time but because the LVC on the dewalt stuff is in the tool itself have shied away. A great follow up to this video would be a stand alone low voltage cut out circuit!!

That was a cool video, a nice change that still relates to the channel.

Ayy nice i saw that wheelspin goin on haha id have loved one of those things growing up, but im definitely gonna get one for my kids in the future

Great job! Currently planning to take my kids car to the DeWALT battery level! Great video!

Awesome! Thank you for sharing!

Easily the best video on the channel. This brings back memories from when my dad did this for me when i was little. 🥺

Gotta love her giggling when they tried out the next battery!

I'm definitely doing this for my daughter! Thanks for the upload.

You: Do you want to go faster? Her: Yea You raised her right 🥲

The satisfaction in your laugh at your daughters reaction is 👌👌

I cracked up when she cruised past you and said bye! Cute kid, and nice work as always

Need a buck converter in line to bring the voltage down so you don't burn the motors up. I use the adapter plate with a 13.6v buck converter to power 12v stuff all over the farm. Test box for trailer lights, meter and solenoid for fertilizer pump, etc.

Before anyone go and do this mod, please understand your kids powerwheel's electronics first. This mod only works if the vehicle has no other electronics that runs off the original 12v battery such as remote control, lights or radio unless those electronics have their own dedicated battery. You can use a high amperage buck converter to drop the voltage down to 13v but that defeats the purpose of using an 18-20v battery. With that said, there are other additional mods/improvements to consider. 1, Use DM18v adapter instead of the DW18v. It works with DeWalt and Milwaukee batteries. With a small mod to the adapter, it can also accept Bauer batteries as well. Use 2 in parallel and you'll double the run time and half the drain to each of those batteries. This works well if you're using 3rd party knock off batteries. 2, Add XH-M609 low voltage cut off to protect the battery from over discharge. Set the low voltage cutoff to 15v. Optional, use automotive 12v relay instead of the built in relay. The 12v relay takes the stress out of the built in 10a relay will operate up to 24v without issue. 3, Add a 60A DC10V-60V motor speed controller and enable high speed on the OEM gear switch. The controller allows you to set the top speed at any speed you want instead of just 10v or 20v. Order of mods, battery adapter, low voltage cut off, optional 12v relay, motor controller, OEM battery input plug. If you set the speed to 13v-20v equivalent, drive on flat surface to prolong the motor. Any sudden stress to the motor such as road to driveway or road to grass or just riding on grass may damage the gears or the motor itself. My kids love the mods I did for them. They get to set how fast or slow they want to go.

This is so wholesome, making kickass toys for your kids is one of the perks of being mechanically inclined

Thanks for the information and this was a great video.

Modding electric ride-on toys is a very slippery slope... We have a Peg Perego running 20v, bicycle tires screwed to the hard plastic wheels, and a motor controller with soft start. The pedal on these things are an on/off switch as you well know. Starting from a stop in speed two on 20v with rubber tires will kill the gear boxes. A $20 DC motor controller with soft start from amazon fixed this problem completely. Enjoy the journey and thank you for the great content!

Ryobi packs are ideal for this sort of thing since they have the protection in the battery rather than the tool. If you have any of their cheap chargers that are just a dc adapter wired to a nubbin that goes over the battery stalk end, they are just asking to be turned into battery adapters, just make sure you use some decent gauge wire rather than the tiny stuff those chargers use. Have to usually solder directly to the output terminals on the little board since it usually has some diodes that will prevent pulling power out the input terminals (plus the output terminals are probably the only place that can actually tolerate the current you'd want to pull with it.) Made one for supplementing my power station (put the 18V out of the adapter into to the power stations 12-24V charging input, can double my runtime with a few 6 or 9ah packs.)

When are the new Rigid impact motors being installed? Gonna need rubber tire mod for that as well most likely.

Way to go dad. Lol. Thanks for sharing I too have reached this cross roads.

Using your skills to improve you kiddo"s toy, satisfying and awesome. I'll keep watching.

My son had gravedigger Truck he's had for a while now and I vseen these conversions before but I was afraid of buying up the motor or decrying the little plastic gears they have but looks to be working fine on yours might have to give it a try👍

Great job dude! It is not about the cost. It is about hearing your child's excitement over something you have done for them.

That’s awesome. Would you have interest in trying upgraded adapter?

Ahhh... Just what I needed to see to retro fit for my 1990 Hot Wheels Lamborghini Power wheels.. what Power wheels mods are you going to tell us about? lol Keep up the testing, Your channel is awesome!

I’ve got my M18 batteries running my kids power wheels. It’s much more fun for them now. Started out with a voltage adjusting reostat so I could keep it turned down for the kids, but they quickly figured out how to crank it up. So that went away on the redo of the battery mod.

DOHC (as it says on the sticker) seems to profit a lot from 18V, maybe I should replace the battery in my Volvo 850 too.

My daughter LOVES her matching RZR! They are the best I ram mine on some M12’s and it destroyed the batteries, all 6.0’s too. Problem is there’s no low voltage cutoff and you can over discharge them easy… Best improvement I have done is a box of self tappers screwed around the back tires for aided traction lmao

2:33 I know it's not to look like that but the main heating part of the gun looks like a smiley face!

What a sweet kid. My daughter is about the same age with a power wheels like this. Definitely going to give it a shot with a Ridgid battery.

That was so friggan cool! Nice job 👏 👍 👌. Watching that made me so happy

I’m really not sure if I should get a replacement 12volt 20amh (higher capacity than stock) or the power tool adapter. I only have a Dewalt 20v 6.0 (for a power wheels style 12v quad)

That battery looks hilarious on the tiny little impact. 😂

I would love to see you guys test hex shank socket adapters project farm style! I’m never happy with the ones I end up with.

I run a 5500 mah 3s lipo from my rc buggies. Doubled the power of the powerwheels ! And my daughter loves it. But youve gotta be the one to stop the fun because the battery will drain all the way down due to no cutoff

I have a 60v dewalt string trimmer with a burnt out motor. I was considering taking the "connector" out of it to use in my son's jeep. I think this jeep may have been a 6v not a 12v machine. The string trimmer is a 60v one so the connector meets the larger contacts not the 20v ones. Do you know enough to tell me if this could work?

Awesome! I used a m12 battery set up on my daughter’s vw bus power wheels. The thing would pull the front wheels off the ground. It was a 6v bus but didn’t mind the 12v?

Just be sure to add in a low vontage cutoff and it will keep your pack from getting drained below the set threshold. My neighbor has his kids gator ride-on with some dewalt batteries and they drive it a LOT. typically he said he goes through about 1 motor per year

Would you be able to use a dewalt 20v to 18v adapter to get the low voltage cutoff?? I’m thinking the old nicad tools would run the battery flat so dewalt had to put something in the adapter for low voltage cut off?

Is it possible to replace the hard plastic tires for rubber ones.? Would improve the grip.

The same satisfying giggles my son gave after supercharging his Merc with 4S lipo

This was fun! I think if I was going to do something like this, I would get a 50Ah LiFePo4 battery and charger. Both can be had for under $300 and would last forever! Both in runtime and lifespan. They're going to be about the same voltage as a peak SLA charge, but stay there longer until the BMS cuts off at about 11v. I wouldn't have to risk over discharging my tool batteries without adding some kind of low voltage cutoff, or just wearing down expensive tool batteries. If a 50Ah doesn't fit, you can get like 20-30Ah too, but far less selection there.

Dude, you're awesome. My oldest daughter's the same age and I had the exact same idea, only I'm an idiot when it comes to working on electronics. I can now follow your instructions.

Honestly I could see Dewalt making a kit for retrofitting Power Wheels just to sell more batteries and thus sooner or later more tools. That said I can see that adding any more power to these things just about requires a tire/wheel upgrade.

I have a bunch of Lipo batteries for RC cars and I always wondered what kind of performance I could get out of a 22.2v 6s lipo set up. I mean technically you could upgrade the ESC and motors as well but would a 22.2v 30,000MaH make that thing super fast and would the electronics handle that king of power?

It's time to repaint the jeep yellow. The adapter may be able to use m18 if it has the side tab slots. This adapter works good for everything else that uses 18v or 19.2

Did the conversion on my sons power wheels it was running fine for a few minutes but now it turns on but will not move. Think I might have burned the motors out any suggestions on upgrading?

lol @4:13 i could imagine "You wanna go faster?" "...mmno-" "Well guys thanks for watching that's the end of this video remember to like and subscribe.."

We do ryobi batts with cheap HF rubber tires. We have to use 2 x18v or they will shut down too much load/volt drop.

Last week I just bought everything I need for upgrading my 4 year old daughter's 12V Jeep with M18 batteries! Gonna try to get it done this weekend.

I've been wondering if spraying bed liner on the wheels would help with traction, moreso on pavement... but ... layer it up a bunch and see how it goes?

Harbor freight 12v solar battery works well. I have also been using the craftsman 20v batteries with great luck

I did the same with my kids jeep one. I had a problem of the one wheel just spinning, so I found another jeep and pulled the rear motor off of it and mounted in on the other back wheel.

She'll be doing doughnuts around you by next week! Wholesome video, my guy. Much appreciated.

Ive had a BCP pink jeep that ive powered from RC lipo batteries. 2 4 cell lipos in parellel. they are 6500 mah a piece and it runs for about 4 hours. The trick to saving your batteries in my case was a lipo cell checker that whistles when a cell gets below 3.4 volts. runs about 7 mph as well.

You don't need to catch up with her wheels.... just her heart😉 Well done.

I'd LOVE to see(like seriously _way_ too much for someone who's never had Power Wheels nor kids) the results of a LiFePO4 chemistry 12v drop-in replacement. I'd imagine not really much more in top-speed there, but oodles of *torque* for when it would normally get bogged down on softer terrain.

I picked up four or five of these power wheel vehicles off the side of the road for my niece and nephew when they were growing up. All with dead batterys. I just used 1 four or five ah 18v battery at a time. They actually enjoyed the "pit stop" to swap out batteries.

“do you want to go faster on the grass?” All he’s waiting for is his daughters consent for his own invention 🤣🤣 I love it!

I bet that battery Is a must have with the new DeWalt chop saw (miter saw) and I bet it's nice to have for the saws all (reciprocating saw)

Adorable research assistant

just noticed the TTC in the handle of drill in your channel logo. very clever.

Now that’s a good dad. Thumbs up 👍🏻

Dad + DeWalt + idea = hero in daughter’s eyes!