CT vac that doubles as an extension cord

[James Watriss]

I remembered this one today.

One of my shopmates was in the middle of the shop, needing to plug in a light. His CT22 was right there, so naturally, he plugged the lamp into the socket that was there. And, naturally, this activated the dust collection.

I don't imagine that it would be oh so hard to allow a pass-through circuit in the vac so that the socket still worked in the switch's off position. Running a light, or a battery charger... or any other helpful, but non dust producing device, even for a little while, form that socket would be very helpful. But without all the sucking and the noise.

 

[nickao]

On my Fein vac's if you set them to manual the outlet stays hot so you can do exactly as you describe.

I missed that feature as soon as I purchased the Festool CT's.

 

[tbellemare]

I can see where the designer would consider it safer to have designed the CT like it is now - so that you have to intentionally make the outlet hot.

I could also see where another setting or another "pass-through" outlet would be handy at times.

Tom

 

[Frank-Jan]

I like it just the way it is, I recently used a hitachi vac with two switches vac on/off and auto/man, I was complaining about the lack of suction when I used it with my TS55... turned out  the vac wasn't running. I too sometimes use the vac for a tool that doesn't need dust extraction for a short while; but I don't mind the sucking and the noise; I really hate the no suction when I do need it.