hey guys brandon with local technology
solution here again
coming to you today with a video of a
different kind today's video is going to
be on how to spot fake dell batteries
uh especially for the dell latitude so
me and my dad have been refurbishing
dental attitudes for over 10 years
and one thing that's very important to
both of us is having a genuine battery
and all the laptops we sell
as time has gone on the people overseas
that make fake batteries have become
more adept to
faking the batteries better
one of the things uh the big things with
the the chinese batteries i try to steer
people away from all of them are made in
china but you want to
try to get a dell genuine battery i
would have rather have
a used genuine dell battery any day of
the week over a brand new chinese
battery and whenever i say chinese
i mean a company that you've never heard
of before there were some companies like
anchor that were making good quality
stuff but any other company
uh you know i used to tell people ninja
bat was good they have a pretty good
following on amazon but
you know if you go through the reviews
of those batteries you'll see some
people you know a battery might last two
months it might last two weeks and it
might last two years and that's just a
risk you don't want to take whenever
you're selling refurbished machines
so i've had a lot of trouble getting
dell latitudes in and i've got one left
and it needs a battery so
on top is a battery that came in the
machine and it's
not real and below that is a sealed dell
battery that i bought
directly from dale that's new and it's
not been open and i'm going to tell you
a few ways here that you can spot a fake
so
the first thing you can look at um this
is a pretty good fake
it's got a uh this dell qr code on it
right here and it's got everything all
the markings on and it doesn't have any
misspellings the biggest way we can tell
this battery's fake
is whenever we go take a look on the
back and you'll notice this whenever i
open the new one
these metal panels on the back the fake
ones used to be able to spot them really
well
it would have four panels in the back
instead of these two but what's going on
with this guy it's got the two panels
that are that are backed by a metal
uh some sort of metal shielding like the
genuine battery does but
the big thing that you can do to spot is
if you take a look at each corner
these corners are pointed like a square
and with a genuine battery what you're
going to notice
is that the corners of the genuine
battery on these metal backing pieces
is grounded so let's take a look and
there's some packaging differences that
you can make um
make note of that will uh let you know
that it is uh genuine or not genuine so
here i'm
i've already opened this seal but this
is just the box that it came in
go ahead and open it up here so
here's the brand new battery and this is
directly from dale so
we're taking a look the qr code uh it's
got a dell part number on and a more
recent dell part number on it
uh it's a force if you can take a look
it's sometimes not really easy to tell
but you can take a look at the crispness
of the text
on the riding of the battery and tail
but i'm going to flip it over right
quick
and take a look at the back of this
battery so if you look at the paneling
on the back
you'll notice that the corners of this
metal shielding are rounded and this is
a brand new dell battery i just
purchased it maybe a week and a half ago
to go on a computer that i'm going to
sell this is brand new from dale and
you're going to be able to tell i'm
going to going to set them side by side
here
so
so this is the this is the genuine
battery and this is the fake battery and
another way you can tell and you can't
really tell whenever you don't have two
right beside each other
take a look at the color of the
background of the text in the
you know the background over here and
the text over in this area so that text
is a good gray color it's a nice gray
nobody's gonna say yeah that's something
else that is definitely gray the text is
nice and crisp
the writing is nice and crisp so if you
take a look there's just
small things that you can use to tell
look at the gap between the del logo and
where it says 55 watt hours
and take just take a look at that
christmas so let's go back over here and
take a look at this
non-genuine battery so if you look at
the gray there you could say that that
was a blue gray you could say that that
was kind of grayish but nobody would
know for sure that that was gray
look at the uh the crispness of the dell
logo is not nearly as good
it's hard to tell on camera the gap
between the dell logo and the 55 watt
hours is not
uh is pronounced if you take a look
there's a lot more space and uh
this it's just somebody what somebody
has done what they used to do
with the chinese batteries they would
peel a genuine logo off they would scan
it and then they would uh
they would reprint it and put it on the
fake batteries but what they've done it
looks like is
they've just tried to recreate it to
make it more crisp but that's not what's
going to happen and
there's a lot of things that people have
talked about
that you can tell like the battery's
capacity will be diminished out of the
box
uh if you look at this right here take a
look right quick at the capacity it says
7.6 volts at 780 milliamps so we're
going to look at this guy
and it says 7.6 volts at 7 300 milliamps
and there's just subtle differences you
can tell once again the christmas with
everything
um let's see this triangle logo it's
hard for my phone to zoom in and get a
real good picture of that
but it's just not as crisp as this one
over here somebody has done a lot of
work you can notice
that you know just like this right here
where it says uh
www.bis.gov.in i'm not sure what that is
but it doesn't have it on the fake
battery
uh it's just one of those things and and
if you took a look
the uh the fake battery has a uh
a different qr code sticker um the dell
one you know it's kind of crooked
but that's okay and this one over here
the mark where it's supposed to be the
the label is even different like i said
this one over here on the left this is a
genuine dell battery
it came directly from dell sealed in the
package uh
one of the things that you'll notice
i've never seen a dell battery sometimes
on the fake chinese batteries you'll see
a little sticker here with date codes on
it and you'll see marks on it
that that tell when it was manufactured
and you're not going to see a dell
battery with that
usually you're not going to see i was
surprised at this guy coming from
directly from dell this packaging
i was surprised at it because usually
what you'll see is you'll see it sealed
in an anti-static bag with a sticker
that says something about dell on it and
usually you're not going to see that
with your aftermarket batteries
uh you're going to see it just kind of
put in there and so it kind of surprised
me but
well you know like i said this right
here is a genuine dell battery it's real
it's for a dell latitude he's 7470.
this is the fake that came out of it
with the fakes like i said you're never
going to know what kind of life you get
out of it lifespan the battery charged
life you know
i'm not going to sell a computer to
somebody with a battery like this in it
you know i have put aftermarket
batteries from places like total micro
and bti
established companies and i told the
customer i said look you know it's brand
new
and you know if you have any problems
with it i'll make it right
because these batteries are just luckily
caught this one on sale and uh
i'm not going to make a whole lot of
money on that laptop because this
battery was 85
but uh i wanted to make it right and the
person who's going to buy this computer
is going to have a great machine that's
going to have a great lifespan and the
battery
on is just going to be excellent so
thanks for tuning in from a video thank
you so much