The Black and Decker 20V Max Battery System is new for 2013. It is the new Standard system that Black and Decker is designing a lot of new tools around. All of the new outdoor tools are being built to this standard Battery. The new 20 Volt Black and Decker Matrix system is built to work with this battery.
Black and Decker 20V Matrix
The new Matrix series uses the 20 Volt Max battery and a power handle. The different tools then twist on to the power handle. This allows a series of tools to only have one motor(powerhead) with replaceable batteries and many different functions. Prior to this sytem normally each individual tool function would be built with its own motor.
Craftsman 20V Max Bolt-On
The New Craftsman 20 Volt Bolt-On system is built around this battery also. Currently the Bolt-On and the Matrix system seem to be identical except for the color and branding of the tools.
Different Batteries for the B&D 20 Volt Max system.
Initially they are making three different batteries.
LB20 is the most basic model with 1 amp hour.
LBX20 has 1.3 amp hours.
LBXR20 has 1.5 amp hours.
All of these batteries will fit any of the 20V Max Black and Decker tools. They all appear to use the same housing, just higher capacity batteries in the X and XR models.