Roachmill
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- Jun 11, 2015
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Festool UK have started the hype machine about a new product. Said hype is very much based around noisy generators and power ords not reaching:
https://www.festool.co.uk/campaigns/microsites/power#Annoyyourself!
Looks to me they're coming with something to provide portable power that's quiet in use... a systainer full of batteries and some electrical gubbins to turn that in to 110 and / or 240 volts (110 is for site work over here and 240 for everywhere else)?
I've seen one of the active dealers on the Fesdrool Facebook group comment he knows what's coming, but is under a NDA and wouldn't drop any hints.
I don't know how many batteries (I'm gonna guess at a wallet-worrying 6) you'd need to get usable run times from corded machines but it would give Festool an instantly "cordless" router, mitre saw, planer etc.
https://www.festool.co.uk/campaigns/microsites/power#Annoyyourself!
Looks to me they're coming with something to provide portable power that's quiet in use... a systainer full of batteries and some electrical gubbins to turn that in to 110 and / or 240 volts (110 is for site work over here and 240 for everywhere else)?
I've seen one of the active dealers on the Fesdrool Facebook group comment he knows what's coming, but is under a NDA and wouldn't drop any hints.
I don't know how many batteries (I'm gonna guess at a wallet-worrying 6) you'd need to get usable run times from corded machines but it would give Festool an instantly "cordless" router, mitre saw, planer etc.