Black & Decker PS145 Fire Storm 18-Volt NiCad Pod Style Battery

My first ever cordless drill, was one of the green 18V PS series drills made my Black and Decker.

Over time, I went through 3 different chargers, until I got one of the bigger black ones that look like a big platform shoe sole.

The batteries gave their spirit and eventually so did the drill motor.

As it was going out, I bought an orange Firestorm drill to find to my pleasant surprise that there was now a gearbox and to my dismay that Black & Decker had decided to change the battery style from the pod style batteries to the slide in batteries.

After having gone through a couple of battery packs for the old style B&D I understand why they changed their style, since their old pod style batteries would fall apart physically.

The Orange FS with the slide in battery, gearbox and the push button changeable chuck was an improvement over the old style drills, and it will hold out decently (not great) under heavy use, though the...Read more

This is a perfect fit for both the cordless B&D drill/driver and the battery charger. It works fine for powering the equipment .

The 18 volt PS145 battery pack is almost identical in physical appearance to 18 volt DeWalt DW9099, DC9096, and DC9099 batteries. One only needs to grind or cut off the plastic alignment notch and the battery snaps right into drills, recip-saws, circ-saws, flashlight, and YES even in the battery charger. FAIR WARNING their is no thermistor in this battery pack. The third lead off to the side is tacked on to a battery packed midway in to give a secondary voltage reading from another negative terminal. It is not necessary to move this terminal and theirs no need to solder or re-wire or glue anything. The batteries inside are NIcd and are of a Short C-cell design physically much like the inside of DC-9099 but with a 1/4" tall plastic plate raising their height inside the pack giving the appearance of having tall batteries like inside the DW9099. This battery does not last as long as a DeWalt battery pack DW9099 but neither do the DC9099s. It does however get the work done. I am in...Read more