Steven Owen said:
I can see a cordless table saw being beneficial on jobs sites where power is not easy to come-by. It beats dragging generators around.
A cordless table saw would be pretty useless for home or shop applications.
Routers consume a ton of power. They’re probably one of the harder tools to make cordless. It’ll be interesting to see anyone pull off a powerful cordless router, all through it’ll probably take another generation of battery technology to make cordless routers feasible.
You’d probably need a 15 AMP hour battery to run a powerful router cordless.
Well, remember, you can only get 2hp continuous from a standard. North American 15Amp 120V plug. I don't know if some of these higher power routers run 20amp plugs, or are 240V. Otherwise they are lying on their power rating.
Still, while a 2hp router can pull that much power, it's not running at max all the time. You need to have a big enough cutter making an aggressive enough cut to get there. And if you are at that limit, I can't see you doing it for very long, at some point you go to a router table. No different than having a car with 350hp, it's almost impossible to ever use it all, going down the interstate you are only using 20ish HP. So while if you could use all that power in the car non stop you would empty the gas tank very quickly, you just can outside of a race track, thus last a lot longer.
A router is definitely one of the harder things to pull off, but it's really only a limited issue on battery stuff. It is a case for where having higher voltage battery systems like dewalt has done and you see with outdoor power tools come into play.
With chop saws and table saws out there, the routers a certainly in development as we speak.
Bonus points for any company (Festool, Bosch, Milwaukee) who offer a kit for one that adapts the router to a Honda push mower deck and blade system.
