subject: Makita Stick Battery: How To Buy The Best Makita Battery Replacements [print this page] If you want a low cost replacement battery for your Makita cordless tools then you are perhaps looking for Makita replacement batteries. These batteries function just about similar as the genuine one but with a fraction of the cost of the original one. This is simply because you are not paying for the brand name anymore but only the production cost of the battery itself. It's like a generic battery with similar specification as the original without the less important functions.
This means, it's probably just a basic battery pack without the fancy packaging and some features, maybe the manufacturer's warranty has a shorter duration unlike the real Makita battery which usually have a three year warranty. You can also purchase them in improved version, maybe twice as big and last twice as much. Or something that uses a different kind of battery cell like NiMH which can store more charge than NiCad with the same volume of battery cell.
Lithium Ion is also very famous these days, it can store up to six times a NiCad can hold with same amount of battery cell. If you are going to produce a Lithium Ion battery with similar specification as the NiCad, you'll be able to have it six times smaller body size than the NiCad. What you get is an extremely small battery that can probably fit easily on your pants pocket.
Not all replacement battery are effective, some third party supplier who just want to gain money uses a very low quality components to lower its cost. What happens is the plastic covering and the lock mechanism easily breaks when you drop or bump it, rendering it worthless for just a couple of days. Some even reduce the amount of battery cell and actually don't last long than it intended to be. So, be cautious when purchasing a replacement battery, you may end up throwing away money rather than saving.
When buying a replacement battery you must as well examine the quality of the product. How? By visual inspection, look at the quality of workmanship, by looking at the unit you can already tell if it's made of low quality material, check for cracks and any tale tell of poor workmanship. Second is, even if it's only a replacement it should still have a manufacturer's warranty. If it breaks easily they should change it or allow you to reclaim the money.
If you plan to purchase it on the internet, since you cannot actually see the product, what you can do is do some study about the product. Read some evaluations from people who actually purchased and used the product. If you can, try to search for more opinions from various websites, sometimes people are biased and tell only the good points about them and not the negative part.
by: Milet Nideretski.
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