Titan TXP Batteries: Which Tools Share Them, and What Fits What

Titan is Screwfix's own brand and is sold nowhere else, so the questions about it are specific: does the 5.0Ah TXP pack fit the Titan combi bought three years ago, will it run the Erbauer jigsaw from the same shop, and what replaces it when the drill stops being enough. Screwfix answers the first two on its product pages; this post checks them against the site's battery hub data and deals with the third. Nothing here is bought or handled, and Titan cannot be a pick because it is not on Amazon.

What TXP is

TXP is Titan's current cordless battery system. Screwfix's Titan page describes one battery system covering 18V and 36V power tools and landscaping tools, with 18V packs and a dual voltage pack that swap between tools. The label matters because TXP is a platform, not a voltage. Older Titan cordless tools are 18V too and are not part of it: if the tool and the pack both carry the TXP mark they belong together, and if only one does they do not.

The packs, and what they fit

Screwfix lists three TXP batteries, each with a two-year manufacturer's guarantee on its page, terms and conditions attached.

• TTI801BAT 18V 2.0Ah. The pack in most drill and impact driver kits, listed at 0.4kg with a charge indicator and described as fitting all Titan TXP 18V tools.
• TTI803BAT 18V 5.0Ah. The larger 18V pack, sold alone or with a 75-minute fast charger in the TTB814ACC set, with the same compatibility line. It is the one to add when a 2.0Ah kit runs flat first.
• TTT1240BAT 18/36V dual voltage. Switches voltage automatically, giving 4.0Ah at 36V or 8.0Ah at 18V, and fits compatible 18V and 36V Titan tools, with 72V tools taking two. The 36V garden tools need it; on an 18V tool it is simply the largest pack.

Charging is on Titan's own chargers: the TTB805CHR, listed at 4A and compatible with any Titan 18V TXP battery, and the TTB1242CHR sold with the dual voltage pack, listed as charging 18V and 36V packs.

Which Titan tools run on TXP

Screwfix's TXP page covers drills, impact drivers and wrenches, multi-tools, jigsaws, angle grinders, reciprocating saws, water pumps, pressure washers and garden tools, and a shop search for TXP returns 78 listings including bare tools, batteries, chargers and refurbished stock. The ones most DIYers want:

• Drills: the TTI884COM combi, listed at 35Nm, as a two-battery kit or bare; the TTI1257COM combi at 50Nm with one or two 2.0Ah packs; and the TTI871SDS SDS-plus drill with a 5.0Ah pack.
• Impact driver: the TTI885IPD, listed at 100Nm and 0 to 3,000 impacts per minute from a brushed motor, 1.4kg with a pack fitted, sold with two 2.0Ah batteries, a charger and a case, or in a twin pack with the TTI884COM.
• Cutting and garden: a reciprocating saw, a bare multi-tool, brushless hedge trimmers, a grass trimmer, a mower, a chainsaw and a 36V garden multi-tool.

The brushless motors are on the garden side: the TTI885IPD is brushed, and no drill listing carries the brushless label the hedge trimmers do.

The trap: older Titan 18V tools and packs

Screwfix settles this one itself. The listings for the 2.0Ah pack and the TTI885IPD both carry the same notice: the new TXP range "is not compatible with previous non-TXP Titan tools and batteries". The battery hub data records the same, and it cuts both ways: an older Titan 18V tool will not run on a TXP pack, and an older pack will not run a TXP tool. The test is the label, not the voltage. If your Titan drill does not say TXP, none of the packs above fit it and its charger will not charge one.

Erbauer EXT is the other Screwfix platform, and they do not mix

Screwfix has two own brands on the cordless shelf, Erbauer on EXT and Titan on TXP, with Erbauer positioned above, and they share nothing. The battery hub data is blunt: separate systems, neither pack runs the other's tools, the chargers do not cross, and there is no official adapter. Screwfix's listings agree by omission. The Erbauer 18/36V 4.0/8.0Ah EXT pack is described as fitting any 18V, 36V or 72V Erbauer EXT tool, the Titan packs as fitting Titan TXP tools, and neither page mentions the other brand. The mistake is easy because the two look alike, down to an 18/36V dual voltage pack at 4.0/8.0Ah.

The honest position on Titan

The trade-offs of a shop's own brand are all here. What you get is a two-year guarantee on the packs and the TTI885IPD kit, claimed at the Screwfix counter rather than through a maker's service network. What you give up, per the battery hub data, is that network, and a platform that lives with one retailer's stocking decisions; the TXP break with older Titan is the proof.

Against the platforms sold everywhere, including Amazon, the gap is breadth rather than build. TXP is 78 listings from one shop. Ryobi's UK site puts ONE+ at over 200 tools, stocked at B&Q, Homebase, Screwfix, Argos and Amazon; Einhell's UK site puts Power X-Change at over 350 tools on one type of battery; DeWalt's UK site puts 18V XR at over 250 products and Makita UK puts LXT at 325-plus, both stocked by the trade counters and Amazon. On those four, the pack bought with a drill runs a saw or a mower from a different shop later; on TXP it runs whatever Screwfix stocks.

The guarantee gap is smaller than it looks. The three-year maker warranties are registration extensions on the tool: DeWalt's UK terms give twelve months as standard, three years if registered within four weeks, and leave standard batteries and chargers on the basic cover. Two years on the pack itself, with no registration step, is a fair position for a battery.

When you outgrow it, and what to move to

Outgrowing Titan looks like one of three things: the 2.0Ah packs are flat before the job is, the combi has run out of torque, or you want a tool TXP does not offer. The 5.0Ah pack fixes the first. The other two mean a new platform, chosen by battery rather than by drill, and the picks in our cordless drills ranking and impact drivers ranking divide into kits that arrive with packs and bodies that do not.

The Titan idea without the single shop: Ryobi ONE+ or Einhell Power X-Change. The Ryobi R18PD3-215GZ 18V ONE+ Combi Drill Starter Kit with 2 x 1.5Ah Batteries is a complete kit, two packs and a charger, publishing 50Nm and a 24-position clutch: the same torque Screwfix lists for the TTI1257COM. It is not marketed as brushless, so the argument is the platform. The Einhell TE-CI 18 Li Power X-Change Cordless Impact Driver is the Einhell equivalent: a published 140Nm against Titan's 100Nm, brushed like the Titan, and body only, so it needs a Power X-Change pack and charger.

If torque was the problem: DeWalt XR, kit first. The DeWalt DCD778D2T-QW 18V XR Brushless Combi Drill Kit with 2 x 2.0Ah Batteries is the one trade-platform drill in our ranking that arrives complete, two 2.0Ah XR packs, a charger and a TSTAK case, with a published 65Nm from a brushless motor. Those packs are the point: the DeWalt DCF887N-XJ 18V XR Brushless 3-Speed Impact Driver, body only, drops straight onto them at a published 205Nm and 3,800 impacts per minute, twice the Titan's torque.

If you are ready to buy body only: Makita LXT. Every Makita pick in both rankings is body only, so an LXT pack and charger are a separate purchase. What it buys is the platform Makita UK puts at 325-plus tools, and bodies like the Makita DTD157Z 18V LXT Brushless Sub-Compact Impact Driver: a published 140Nm and 4,100 impacts per minute, and nothing in the box but the tool.

Quick answers

Do old Titan batteries fit TXP tools?

No. Screwfix's TXP listings say the range is not compatible with previous non-TXP Titan tools and batteries, and the battery hub data records the same in both directions. Look for the TXP mark on the tool before buying any pack for it.

Can I use a Titan battery in an Erbauer tool?

No, and not the other way round. Erbauer EXT and Titan TXP are both Screwfix own brands and separate systems: different packs, different chargers, no official adapter. And no third-party adapters: they bypass the pack's protection, end the guarantee on both, and must never be used for charging.

Is Titan a good brand of drill?

For the job it is sold for, yes, with two limits. Screwfix lists the TXP combis at 35Nm and 50Nm and the impact driver at 100Nm from a brushed motor: enough for flat-pack, shelves and Rawlplug holes, and well short of the 65Nm brushless DeWalt combi and the 140 to 205Nm impact drivers in our rankings. The other limit is the shop: 78 listings from one retailer, no circular saw, mitre saw or track saw, and no route back to the Titan packs that came before. As a self-contained kit for light work it is a reasonable buy; as the start of a system, you will be starting again later.

Sources

• Screwfix: Titan TXP
• Screwfix: Titan TTI803BAT 18V 5.0Ah Li-Ion TXP battery
• Screwfix: Titan TTI801BAT 18V 2.0Ah Li-Ion TXP battery (carries the non-TXP compatibility notice)
• Screwfix: Erbauer 18/36V 4.0/8.0Ah Li-Ion EXT battery
• Einhell UK: Power X-Change
• DEWALT UK: warranty