Customer Reviews

Makita 193890-9 9034 9.6-Volt 2.6-Amp Hour NiMH Stick Style Battery

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This battery provides an excellent upgrade option for those with older Makita tools. My original Ni-Cad batteries would no longer hold a charge and I was about ready to replace everything when I saw this battery at Menards. It was more expensive than another Ni-Cad, but worth every penny. Like others, I do wish it would have been more clearly marked on the packaging that my older charger would no longer work, so I ended up going back to the store to buy the new charger (another $50). Still, it's a better charger and it will work for both the old and new batteries, with better indicators for the charging status. It will also allow charging a battery sooner after use than the old charger. The old charger would require waiting quite awhile for a recently used battery to cool down before it would accept it. The new chargeer requires little or no cool down time before the battery can be popped in.

One drawback to the new charger is that it is larger and won't fit in the original case for my drill. For awhile I just kept the new charger in my main toolbox, but recently I found a great deal on a used drill with case (and another Ni-Mah battery) on ebay, so now I'm all set. From this description, it may sound like I would have been better off just to get a whole new setup, but as others have mentioned the newer drills are heavier and shaped differently than the older models. I'm helping a friend build a deck and there are some tight places on the deck where his brand new drill would not fit while mine still would due to the narrow design.

Overall I'm extremely pleased with this product. Besides the larger capacity and more time between charges, this battery seems to produce power more evenly over the life of a single charge. The drill has almost full torque until the battery runs out instead of gradually getting slower as the Ni-Cads seemed to do. This gives the feel that the drill has more power than before, though that may just be my perception.

For those people who already have the correct charger, then purchasing this battery is a no-brainer. If your model came with the model 9033 battery, this one even has a bit more capacity (2.6 amp-hours versus 2.2).

I finally succumbed and went out and purchased some new higher voltage battery powered drills. They were very much heavier and more cumbersome than my old Makita drills. What a great relief it was to find these new higher powered and better memory NiMH batteries. I ordered them and the new Makita DC1804 charger from Amazon and got them quite quickly. They have been working very very well thus far. I took back the new very heavy drills and am very pleased that I can now use my much lighter and less cumbersome 9.6 volt Makita drills again. The battery life is much longer and the new charger charges both the new batteries and the old batteries.
These are a definite purchase if you wish to continue using your 9.6 volt tools.
Wendell in beautiful Gardiner, WA.

The information here isn't complete. It doesn't tell you what kind of charger you need. If you're like me, your old charger won't work on this. How does the battery perform?..I'll follow up in a month when I get the charger for it.

These NiMH batteries are far superior to the old NiCds, even though you need to buy a new charger to use them with an older tool. These batteries seem to be able to deliver power much better at low temperatures than the newer
lithium ones, so I was able to drive screws around freezing much better with my old 9.6V Makita than the much newer 10.8V/12V Bosch PS20-2. In warmer conditions they were equal or the Bosch won.

These batteries are the new 2.6 amp and I bought them to replace my old ones for my 9.6 volt drill and small power saw. Both of these tools now work much better being especially noticeable with the saw. The old style batteries would hardly power the saw so I rarely used it, now while working on my model train layout I will have a small portable circular saw to use. I am pleased.

Although you will spend a chunk of money if you are doing this to replace the older type of batteries for your drill, but to me it was worth it. You have to buy a new charger also by the way! I love my 9.6 drill and did not want to buy a new one (these last for ever if you ask me) the power is much better than ever before and they last forever. I used mine to drill several 3" holes through 3/4 inch treated plywood and was already using it before I started the project. The batteries were not freash and it did not let me down. Great product if you can shell out the money on an old drill.... that is up to you!!!

i have had four of these batterys none would live up to makitas claims i cant believe makita ever made such a piece of junk

The 9.6 volt Makita drill I bought this for was made in Japan and doesn't have a keyless chuck, so it has been around a long time. When I needed another battery for my 14.4 volt driver, I saw this and since there was nothing wrong with the old drill I thought it might be nice to use two drills instead of having to replace the bits all the time. Well this battery is better than the 14.4 volt, (both have the same Amp Hour life). It just keeps going and going and going.

So if you have one of these old drills, or find one in a garage sale, or a pawn shop, and you have an appropriate charger, for the price of a new battery you will be in business, or have a great drill to use when the new one decides it wants to retire.

I have had my Makita 9.6v drill for years and it still runs great. My older (black in color) 9.6v stick style batteries were slowly wearing out and wouldn't hold a charge. I replaced one battery two years ago with the newer (gray color) 9.6v 2.6 Amp Hour NiMH stick style battery and have nothing but improved performance. The charging procedure is the same, but these batteries really hold their charge longer providing excellent power just before dropping off in charge. I finally had to get rid of the other older battery and now have two of the 2.6amp hour NiMH batteries. Well worth the price for increased time between charges and excellent power.Makita 193890-9 9034 9.6-Volt 2.6-Amp Hour NiMH Stick Style Battery

Be SURE you have a charger that will charge a NiMH battery -- many if not most standard Makita chargers will NOT!