Hunter Douglas rechargeable battery wand
Hunter Douglas sells a sealed lithium-ion wand that you charge from the mains instead of filling with AA batteries. It is a genuinely different part from the wand most shades have, it costs roughly five to eight times as much, and the part numbers are quoted inconsistently all over the internet.
This page sets out what is actually being sold, what the numbers mean, and — the bit most people need first — how to tell whether your shade has one at all.
We do not sell rechargeable wands or chargers. We sell the AA wands. We have written this page because the information is scattered and half of it is wrong, and because a good share of the people searching for a rechargeable wand turn out to have an AA wand and need a $17.95 part rather than a $149 one.
What is the part number for the Hunter Douglas rechargeable battery wand?
1020151 is the number you will see most often, usually described as the 18V DC Lithium-Ion Rechargeable Battery Wand, and usually sold as a retrofit kit with a magnetic mounting bracket and screws.
You will also see 1015882 used for a rechargeable li-ion wand. Listings that carry both numbers give the same cell specification, so they appear to be the same family of part at different points in its life rather than two different products.
If the number matters — and it does, if you are ordering — read the label on the wand you already have rather than trusting any listing, including this one. Dealer catalogues disagree with each other, and a wand bought in 2016 is not necessarily catalogued the way a wand bought in 2024 is.
Is it 14.4V, 14.8V or 18V?
All three numbers are real, which is why this is so confusing.
- 18V is the system name. It is the class of shade the wand belongs to — the same "18V" that appears on the AA wand, part 7520068000, which holds twelve 1.5V cells.
- 14.8V is the nominal voltage of the lithium-ion pack inside the rechargeable wand. Four li-ion cells in series sit at 14.8V nominal and rather higher fully charged.
- 14.4V turns up on the separate PowerView battery pack and its charger, which is a different item again.
So a listing that says "18V DC" in the title and "14.8V" in the specification is not contradicting itself. It is giving you the system on one line and the chemistry on the other. A twelve-cell alkaline wand and a four-cell li-ion wand both drive an 18V-class shade.
The practical consequence: do not buy a part on voltage alone. Buy on the part number and the physical fit.
How much does a Hunter Douglas rechargeable battery wand cost?
Dealer listings seen in October 2026 put the wand at roughly $98 to $149, before the charger.
The charger is sold separately and there are two. Hunter Douglas's own pages call them the Single Charger and the Dual Charging Station without numbers, and say to use Hunter Douglas chargers only; the part numbers below are the ones dealers list them under.
| Part | What it is | Typical price | Charge time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1027686 | Single Charger: plug-in wall charger with a 12 ft cable | around $55 | about 2 hours |
| 1013759 | Dual Charging Station, charges two wands | around $103 | about 3 hours (Hunter Douglas's figure; some dealers say 4) |
The retrofit kit itself comes in five versions by cable length, per Hunter Douglas: 1020151 (no extension cable), 1020152 (15 inch), 1020153 (4 ft), 1020154 (10 ft) and 1020155 (20 ft).
So a first rechargeable wand with a wall charger lands somewhere near $155 to $205 all in. A second wand on the same charger is just the wand.
These are third-party dealer prices, not Hunter Douglas list prices, and they move. Treat them as an order of magnitude rather than a quote.
What does the rechargeable wand actually give you?
The published figures on the 1020151 listings are consistent enough to quote:
- 2.2Ah / 32.6Wh li-ion pack, 14.8V nominal
- Roughly 750 operating cycles per charge, or about 10–12 months of normal use
- Around 500 recharges over the life of the wand
- Operating range 4°F to 176°F
- Needs about 15 inches of width and 1 inch of depth to mount
- Five year warranty, UL listed
Ten to twelve months between charges is the number that sells it. You are not charging this thing monthly; you are charging it about as often as you would have changed the AA batteries anyway.
Which shades does the rechargeable wand fit?
The 1020151 retrofit kit is listed for 18V PowerView and Platinum Technology shades that already use a reloadable 18V DC battery wand — which is to say, shades that currently have the twelve-AA wand in them. Named lines include Duette, Applause, Silhouette, Nantucket, Pirouette, Vignette, Sonnette, and Designer Screen and Roller shades.
It is not listed for Luminette, Skyline Gliding Panels, Palm Beach shutters, Provenance vertical draperies or Design Studio drapery hardware.
If your shade takes the eight-AA 12V wand rather than the twelve-AA one, the 18V rechargeable retrofit is not your part.
Do I even have a rechargeable wand?
Most people do not. This is the single most useful check on the page, and it takes ten seconds.
Slide the wand out of the headrail and look at the end of it.
| What you see | What you have |
|---|---|
| Loose AA batteries, or empty bays with springs and metal contacts | An AA wand. No charger exists for it, and no charger will help |
| A sealed body with a small round socket at one end and nothing removable | A rechargeable wand. It has a charger |
If you can count individual batteries, you have an AA wand. People buy chargers for AA wands every week and there is nothing for them to plug into.
AA wand or rechargeable wand, side by side
| AA wand | Rechargeable wand | |
|---|---|---|
| Batteries | Twelve or eight loose AA cells you can see and remove | Sealed, nothing removable |
| Charging socket | None | A small round socket at one end |
| When it runs down | Put new AA batteries in | Plug it in |
| Typical cost to replace | Around twenty dollars | Several times that |
They are not interchangeable as an upgrade path you can improvise: you cannot put rechargeable cells in an AA wand and get the rechargeable product, and you cannot charge an AA wand.
My rechargeable wand will not hold a charge - do I need a new wand or a new charger?
Work through it in this order before spending anything.
- Try the charger on a known-good outlet. A charger with a dead cable is cheaper to replace than a wand, and a 12 ft cable that lives behind furniture takes abuse.
- Watch the charge indicator. If the wand never acknowledges the charger at all, suspect the charger or the cable. If it charges and then dies quickly, suspect the pack.
- Count the years. A pack rated for about 500 recharges, charged every ten to twelve months, should not be wearing out on cycle count. If a wand is failing inside five years it is a warranty conversation with your dealer, not a purchase.
- Confirm the shade is the problem, not the power. The six-symptom check separates a power fault from a motor fault in two minutes, and it applies equally to rechargeable wands.
How do I replace a Hunter Douglas rechargeable battery wand?
Check the warranty before you buy a replacement. Hunter Douglas launched the rechargeable wand for PowerView on July 7, 2020, so no rechargeable wand is much more than six years old. Hunter Douglas covers motorized components, battery wands included, under a five-year limited warranty from the date of purchase, for the original owner, claimed through the dealer who sold or installed the shade. If you bought the shades yourself within the last five years, a dead rechargeable wand may cost you nothing.
If you are past five years, or you are not the original owner, the replacement is ordered by cable length, the same way the original was:
| Part | Retrofit kit |
|---|---|
| 1020151 | No extension cable |
| 1020152 | 15 inch extension cable |
| 1020153 | 4 ft extension cable |
| 1020154 | 10 ft extension cable |
| 1020155 | 20 ft extension cable |
Order the same length you have now unless the wand is moving. A charger is not included by default, so if your old charger works, you do not need another. Hunter Douglas says to use Hunter Douglas chargers only; third-party chargers may damage the battery.
Before you replace anything, do the free check Hunter Douglas gives for a rechargeable shade that stops or loses its programming: charge the wand fully, reconnect it to the shade, and test again. On the Single Charger the light is red while charging and green when done, in about two hours; on the Dual Charging Station it can take up to three. A wand that never shows a red light on a known-good outlet points at the charger or its cable, not the wand.
Can I go back to an AA wand instead? We cannot confirm that for any given shade. Hunter Douglas mounts rechargeable wands either in the headrail or on a satellite mount, and its help center does not say when an AA wand can take their place. Ask the dealer before buying either. If other shades in the house run on AA wands, count the batteries in those: that tells you what those headrails take, and we stock both the 18V and 12V wands.
Sources for this section: Hunter Douglas Help Center articles "PowerView Battery Wand Identification" (42770291229076), "What is the warranty for motorized components?" (39561061650964), "Charge a Rechargeable Battery" (39311961154324) and "Why does my PowerView programming keep disappearing?" (39614475834388).
Is the rechargeable wand worth it over AA?
Honestly, for most houses, no — and we would say that even if we sold both.
Run the arithmetic on one shade. A rechargeable wand plus a wall charger is around $155. An AA wand is $17.95, and twelve good alkaline AAs are a few dollars and last a long time on a shade that is not being run on a schedule. You would be a very long way into the future before the rechargeable paid for itself on a single window.
It changes with scale and with height. Eight shades across a two-storey stairwell, run on a schedule, is a different problem: you are up a ladder with ninety-six AA batteries, and a charger you walk a wand to twice a year starts to look sane. That is the case the rechargeable wand is genuinely built for.
Can I put rechargeable AA batteries in a normal wand instead?
You can physically, and it works badly.
Standard NiMH AA cells sit at 1.2V rather than 1.5V. Twelve of them give you about 14.4V where the shade expects 18V. The shade runs slowly, labours on heavier fabrics, is most likely to fail on the way up, and needs recharging far more often than you would like. It is not a cheap route to the rechargeable wand; it is a worse version of the AA wand.
If you want rechargeable operation, buy the rechargeable wand. If you want the AA wand to last, use lithium AA cells — they cost more and they do not leak, and leaked alkaline is what kills these wands.
Where do I buy one?
Not from us. We stock the AA wands and the parts around them, and we would rather tell you that plainly than take an order we cannot fill properly.
Hunter Douglas rechargeable wands and chargers come from Hunter Douglas dealers and from the window-covering parts specialists. Take your part number with you.
The two chargers, and how to tell whether your wand even takes one, are on the Hunter Douglas battery charger page. How the charging cable connects, and which Hunter Douglas cables only carry power, is on the Hunter Douglas charging cable page, and if you are not sure what is in your headrail, start with which battery pack you have.
What we do sell
If the ten-second check above turned up loose AA batteries, you are in the right place:
- 18V battery wand — twelve AA, part 7520068000, $17.95
- 12V battery wand — eight AA, part 7520069000
- Battery tube conversion kit — eight AA, for sealed tubes
- Motor to wand power cable
Not sure which? Count the batteries in the old wand — twelve means the 18V, eight means the 12V. Or send a photo of the wand and the headrail sticker to support@batterywands.com and we will tell you what you have, including if the answer is that you need a part we do not sell.
Replacement parts. Complete your repair.
Common parts for Hunter Douglas motorized shades.
