![]() Hopefully the adapter comes with a wall plug and rated USB charging cable so that users don’t have to source these components separately. Plus, you also get USB-C and USB-A device charging with the adapter. The 5A charging rate isn’t much slower than the 6A charger Dewalt came out with last year, but it’s nowhere near the 12A charging rate of the 20V Max and FlexVolt charger Dewalt launched at the same time. There’s no word as to whether this will work with all of Dewalt’s 20V Max-compatible batteries, such as FlexVolt, but I can’t see any reason why it wouldn’t. If USB-C has become popular enough for Dewalt to offer such a charger, we are surely bound to see similar accessories from some of their competitors. That actually sounds like a good idea, in theory, for power tool batteries to be rechargeable via USB.Ī reader brought up USB-C PD in the comments section, saying that while chargers were still rare, the entirety of the consumer electronics industry was heading in this direction.īut how likely will it be for brands to adopt this, and for both devices and chargers to be ubiquitous?ĭewalt is not the first cordless power tool brand to offer USB battery charging, but is this the first 18V/20V Max charger and device charging adapter to feature USB-C? Thus, if I’m reading all this correctly, Dewalt has come out with a USB-C PD battery and device charger.Īlmost exactly two years ago, I wrote a post titled Why Dewalt Probably Won’t Make a USB-Chargeable Cordless Power Tool Battery, where I was answering a reader’s question about the potential for batteries with built-in USB ports. USB-C PD (Power Delivery) standards allow for 100W of charging/power delivery, based on 20V at 5A, and it appears that’s what you get here.Ī recent USB PD 3.1 revision allows for even higher power delivery rates using appropriately rated cables, and so we might see even faster cordless power tool charging rates in the future. That’s right, the Dewalt DCB094 is a USB power source type of accessory for use with 20V Max batteries, AND it appears that this is ALSO a 20V Max battery charger. The front of the adapter says USB 5A, and it took me a moment to realize that this works both ways. The standard USB A output is 5V at 2.4A, which is decent and typical these days, but what’s that about the USB-C and battery ports? Type C Port: Input/Output 5-20V DC, 5A DC.Let’s read the side label on the adapter. $89?! At this price, you of course get one USB A and one USB-C charging port – which a lot of users have been asking for – but that’s not all, and here’s where things get interesting. ![]() ![]() ( Amazon has the DCB090 for $41 at the time of this posting.) The advert lists the new Dewalt USB charger for $89, which is quite a bit more than the $49 the existing charging adapter sells for. Images of a UK/EU 18V XR version of the new Dewalt DCB094 USB device charger have been floating around social media for about a month now, and I came across an advertisement that implies it will also be coming to the USA.
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