irockwithdirt Posted April 25, 2013 Report Share Posted April 25, 2013 I recently purchased a battery for my dewalt cordless nail gun from an ebay seller who sells tool parts. Looking at the picture in the auction it looked like either a real dewalt battery or a really good fake. Sadly, what I received is not what was pictured in the auction. I'm sure I know the answer to this... but could somebody verify that Dewalt hasn't changed their labels or anything. Pictured is my original battery on left and what I was sent on the right. Thanks for any help. PS having problems uploading pics here.... was able to upload it to my gallery here: http://dewaltownersgroup.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view&id=51 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PKDEWALT Posted April 25, 2013 Report Share Posted April 25, 2013 whats the date on top of the battery you bought on ebay i think around 2010 they changed the way the XRP looked i have some i bought at lowes that look like that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irockwithdirt Posted April 25, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2013 the date is 201102. I had even looked on dewalts website and saw no pictures that looked like this. I may be wrong here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jevink Posted April 26, 2013 Report Share Posted April 26, 2013 Those are both legit batteries. Dewalt did change their print style around that time with those XRP's, gave it a bit more modern look. If you go to your local hardware store they will currently look like the one on the right as well as having the tamper proof sticker on top(which is NOT tamper proof at all) I have batteries that look like both of those as well as the 3 different looking Lithium XRP's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irockwithdirt Posted April 28, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 28, 2013 Well the one on the left is my older XRP battery... but the one on the right..... The screws that hold it together are T15 while all my other dewalt batteries have T10 screws and after looking similar new batteries at the store, look at the 14.4v print. Its not centered. There is about twice as much or more space above it than below. Print on store ones was centered and larger. I am fairly confident this is a fake battery. Thanks for all replies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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