I decided to try one of the far more affordable clone batteries to replace a Ryobi One Plus Battery. In this video, I use a practical test of capacity and output current.
I have 2 4 generic batteries they run my drivers and trimmer just fine for the last 3 yrs . I bought them for$35 dollars for the pair. Way better the the ryobi for price. thank you for the video.
When I started buying Ryobi tools; aside from any original Ryobi batteries that came with the tool, I only bought the aftermarket ones. I always thought that they were excellent batteries, just up until I just recently started using my Ryobi tools professionally. I'm currently doing some demo work which has required me to run my brushless Ryobi HP tools for extended periods of time. Example, I needed to make about a 20 foot cut through roofing shingle (not overlapped) and plywood on a flat roof. My brushless HP circular saw would stop from time to time. I originally thought the saw couldn't handle cutting through the plywood and shingle material at the same time. And this was with a brand new Diablo blade on it. But when I swapped out the battery to the genuine 4aH battery, it didn't stop at all. I also had the same issue when I ran the circular saw through a plywood subfloor with a sheet of linoleum on top of it. Both times the blade was set as minimal as possible to eliminate any extra friction. After some of my other Ryobi tools randomly stopped doing other various things, I came to the conclusion that the aftermarket battery's simply cannot deliver the necessary power that is needed when a tool gets temporarily bogged down. They basically cannot handle the voltage drop, and will cause the tool to stop. In any event where the tool will not be put under heavy stress, then the aftermarket batteries work perfectly fine. Otherwise, original is better.
Go OEM all the way. I had my first OEM Ryobi battery go bad after 10+ years (countless charge cycles). I bought some of those "clone" batteries from Amazon or ebay and they all went bad inside of a year.
My drill and driver (2ah batteries) are over 15 years old and batteroes don't last forever. Thtee years back i bought a clone 4ah battery and it worked fins, I suspected it really wasn't 4ah but I didn't really care. This spring one of the original 2ah cells was not doing well so I bought a pair of 4ah clones from Amazon. Both worked but only one would accept a charge, the other one still worked but the charger indicated it as a bad battery so I made arrangements to return them - can't return just one. I bough a different pair off amazon and both of those powered the drill but neither wpuld accept a charge. That means 75% of yhe batteries i bought this year were bad - I don't care how cheap something is it ain't worth it if it don't woik. BTW that one clone I bought a few years back worked just fine. Sounds like some of the new clones are just bad. I then fond a pair of RTobi 4ah batteries at a good price on ebay and both worked and would accept a charge. These cost close to twice what the other sets did but 100% of them worked. What do you think?
Have a few Ryobi Batteries and a few Clone ones, when you get three for the price of one, a true comparison should be x3 for the clone so 18 for the Ryobi 12.5 x 3 = 37.5 for the same money. Big difference in the performance to price there mate. Also, most important you have 3 batteries so you have at least 1 charging 1 ready to go while you are using one, the Ryobi when it's dead, there is not one ready or one charging, it needs to be charged. Also, you will need to charge the Ryobi 3x more than the clones, which would be an interesting challenge, also if a battery did go down, I would rather have a 3 in 1 chance than nothing. The smart purchase would be the clones, I can not argue with maths. Go clones every time.
But they can't deliver the current required to make the tools run at full speed. I could hear, see and feel the difference on a weed whacker, air compressor, grinder, and generator (starter).
Somewhat helpful but more info would be awesome. How long did each tank fill take? How many bars of battery life on the ryobi when you stopped at 18 cycles?
I first started off with a cloned 9.0ah battery, then I bought a genuine Ryobi 9.0ah battery. I noticed the runtime in my grinder, no surprise that the genuine one outlasted the cloned one. When I bought the genuine 9.0ah battery, exactly the same one you've got. It was imported into my country, The United Kingdom by a stockist
Not all clone batteries are the same. Theres no way to know for sure until you put it to the test,i can say from experience the clone batteries do well for 'light weight or ocassional work' ..The REAL batteries from companies hold a bigger charge and for longer. Some clone batteries have a number like 4-6-8 on the side,my experience is many are literally half of what it claims to be. Buy a '4 amp' and your prob getting a '2 amp' from the clones 🤷♂️
I find that the Clones purchased on Amazon give about 75% of their rated capacity. Ryobi gives about 95% of rated capacity due to better quality cells. In my experience the cost per amp hour works out to be nearly identical with regard to a clone versus original.
For being an "informative unbiased test" your replies in the comments sure seem to suggest that your time waiting for an air compressor to fill is really where the "value" in genuine Ryobi batteries lies. It's odd that, while the clones seem to have a far better value in $/Ah, you seem fixated on how the genuine Ryobi supplies more continuous current. While I suppose that might be a deciding factor to some, the fact is; genuine Ryobi batteries cost FOUR TIMES as much as the clones. For the price, they should be pushing 2X the current for 2X as long, which is obviously not the case. For almost all users, provided they aren't looking for speed, the clones will be a better overall value.
If you watch the video, you'll see that not only did the real Ryobi deliver higher current resulting in faster filling of the air tank, but it also filled the tank more times than the clone. So, we can infer that the Ryobi holds more charge and has lower internal resistance. I assume that means more cells in the Ryobi. But I did not want to disassemble them to see.
But not if they don't run the tool well. The Ryobi batteries spin the air compressor in this video faster and fill the tank faster. Grinders, saws, drills, etc need high current to produce high torque. If you're comparing AH capacity per dollar you might be right, except that you'd need to calculate actual AH from both Ryobi & clone to get a valid equation and decision there. It is clear that a 9AH battery from Ryobi has more AH than a 9AH clone battery.
the real answer is do not buy Ryobi A scam item that does not even try to improve their shit batteries I have a dozen Royobi items none work due to battery issues
