See "Notes on 18V/20V Lithium Ion Battery Packs" section in the "Power Tools Battery Conversion Guide" page. As you can see from the photo, the battery has five receptors. Only the positive and negative terminals are labeled. The middle three receptors are unknown. Similar to the battery, none of the pins are labeled on the tool.
With four terminals on a drill battery, likely, some of them are there for battery balancing purposes. Those terminals marked for individual cells (e.g., C1, C2, etc.) are connected to different cells to ensure that they can charge and discharge at the same pace. As a result, those battery cells are balanced and will last much longer.
By joining these cells together, the battery’s overall capacity increases, making them suitable for use in a power drill. However, not all of the cells in your drill battery will charge or discharge at similar rates. So, to ensure that the cells can keep up with each other, these batteries tend to be designed with battery balancing in mind.
Most consumer devices that have lithium single-cell batteries have 4 connections. I''ve noticed the following diverse types of devices, this is true: The 4-connection rule seems to hold even with devices that have multi-cell batteries like cordless drills.
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