Home Depot has two multi-battery charger and battery deal bundles for the holiday season. I don’t recall seeing deals like this in prior years, and took a closer look.
At this time, both deals are at least still available online, and you’ll have to check for your location to see if they’re available in stores.
Shown here is the Milwaukee M18 bundle.
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What You Get:
- M18 Packout-compatible 6-bay Rapid Charger
- 2x 5Ah batteries
- 2x High Output 6Ah batteries
Price: $499
The Rapid Charger sells for $249 by itself (via Home Depot), which means you’re getting the 4 batteries for $250 more than that.
The M18 6-port charger and battery bundle seems like a good deal, but there are others.
Alternatively, you can buy the charger at its regular price, and get 3x 6Ah batteries for $299 if you go with the “free tool” promo. There’s also the M18 FORGE deal where you get 8Ah and 12Ah batteries with a charger for $299.
The Dewalt deal is a little different, but also noteworthy.
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What You Get:
- 20V Max 4-port charger
- 5Ah battery
- 2Ah battery
Price: $299
Dewalt’s 4-port charger sells for $329 at Home Depot and also Acme Tools, while Tool Nut has it for $229. Amazon has it at various prices via 3rd party sellers.
$329 seems high for what you get, especially since the charger launched at $199 nearly 8 years ago, but I think $299 seems like a fair bundle price if you could use both battery sizes.
Jim Felt
Fortunately I got that earlier Milwaukee “Rapid Charger” with two Forge Battery deal which actually just arrived today at my nearest HD store.
Our M18 blowers should benefit. We shall see.
Jason
I’d like to see Milwaukee come out with a usable multi port charger for the M12s. Their current 4 port is…not good. I’m tired of having an array of single bays plugged in all the time.
Mike
My multi M12 only has issues if left plugged in with fully charged batteries.
Always recovers if left unplugged a few hours/days.
Thinking i will add a smart switching outlet with rules for IF load < # for x time, turn off outlet.
frampton
I think the M12 battery design isn’t great for charging. I frequently pull out a battery that didn’t charge because it wasn’t seated correctly. If I were more attentive when I mounted it, this would probably not be an issue but … here we are.
Shang l
Everyone keeps talking about how you get the M18 and m12 charger whenever you get this or that, well I don’t know if it is just on the rapid chargers or what but both of my rapid chargers the m12 side always shows a faulty battery now yet charge just fine on the m12 charger. And even though they are both rapid chargers the m12 side never charged any faster than the regular m12 charger. So hang on to those “useless” m12 chargers because they end up being not so useless
ElectroAtletico
3 days before T-giving I got 2 x 5Ah DeWalt 20v at the Depot on a “flash sale” for $105.
Steve
I missed that one…… I’m looking for that deal exactly!
Rascally
I’m glad they started shipping the dual M12 and M18 chargers! Because I’ve got a lot of the single M12 chargers that I’ll never use. Don’t want to stock two different voltage chargers in the same location.
Adam
Any M18 kit will come with a combination voltage charger, however 99% if M12 kits will only come with the M12 charger.
I think Milwaukee could switch to all dual voltage chargers, and shouldn’t cost much more only making the one style. I would think that the temptation it provides some to jump into M18 could offset any increase, and overall you have a happier use base.
Some say the single bay M12 charger is the most useless M12 charger, and I tend to agree.
Dave
Just with my end-of-year purchases the last few weeks I’ve acquired 3 absolutely useless M12 chargers – usually I can sell them on Craigslist or OfferUp for $15 or so, but locally the market is so flooded at the moment from others like me that I’d be hard pressed to give them away.
Agree that the combo chargers should be standard – I’d imagine the extra cost could be offset by shutting down production of the 12v-only line and the ability to handle 18v might lure a few people into a second tool line. But I’m assuming someone smarter than me studied this and there’s a reason I keep getting saddled with landfill fodder as an end user…
Stuart
In practice, this would increases costs by quite a bit. Not only would the standard M12/M12 charger cost more, its larger size would increase the size of kit packaging, and that would also contribute to higher costs.
PM
I just disassembled my m12 impact and cleaned out ten years of dirt. Now I like to get a new battery. liked to find some m12 battery deals….
Stuart
https://toolguyd.com/milwaukee-tool-deals-black-friday-2025/#battery-deals
Forma Custima
HD has a giant bait and switch,advertising two 5ah batteries and charger for199$ with a free air inflator..they have the components for the deal but the charger and battery set is sold out…they have the deal for 397$ not 199$..
Stuart
It’s not bait and switch when a deal sells out after weeks of availability.
People returning the starter set could have thrown off the inventory count after it ended.