new multi battery charger inverter power supply

FestitaMakool said:
Hey [member=5277]Alex[/member] Who’s Fur(y) Elise?
Have you decoded the melodies on the chargers?  [blink]  You need to enlighten us.. [big grin]
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Fur Elise is one of the most famous classical pieces, composed by Beethoven for his daughter Elise. It is also the default music on Makita chargers I believe. A carpenter friend of mine has Makita gear and his charger always plays Fur Elise.
 
FestitaMakool said:
On Makita chargers you can even choose the melody it plays... [wink] [big grin] [big grin]
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It's not so much it playing a sound when its fully charged thats the issue, its the fact that some berk thought it was a good idea for it to beep every ten seconds all the time its charging.

Festools version of Chinese water torture and as I often charge the batteries in the site canteen or office its almost guaranteed to get it switched off before its charged.

I honestly have no idea why someone thought it was a good idea for 8t to do that.

I like the thought of this new powerstation thing, but I liked the idea of the De-Walt version and that never happened in the UK either so I'm not holding my breath for it.

For me it needs to be 110 (or thereabouts) volts output to go with UK site voltage.
 
demographic said:
FestitaMakool said:
On Makita chargers you can even choose the melody it plays... [wink] [big grin] [big grin]
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It's not so much it playing a sound when its fully charged thats the issue, its the fact that some berk thought it was a good idea for it to beep every ten seconds all the time its charging.

Festools version of Chinese water torture and as I often charge the batteries in the site canteen or office its almost guaranteed to get it switched off before its charged.

I honestly have no idea why someone thought it was a good idea for 8t to do that.

I like the thought of this new powerstation thing, but I liked the idea of the De-Walt version and that never happened in the UK either so I'm not holding my breath for it.

For me it needs to be 110 (or thereabouts) volts output to go with UK site voltage.
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100% agree.

Definitely seems like a stupid feature.
 
Kinda excited about this sys power pack! I wonder what the deal will be.

Obviously thing like price and runtime with a tool will be deciding factors. I wonder if it will have the power to run a Vac and a Tool?

"for a guaranteed working day"  Surely that rules out 18v batteries in that little systainer, I'd guess you couldn't get enough 18v batteries in that thing to run a vac and sander for 4 hrs. .

 
Looking at current Lithium battery technology, I suspect they could pack about a single kWh into that systainer. Similar powerbanks are available for about £800 or USD1000 but these are Chinese. So lets say USD2000 minimum for a Festool version?

The 4Ah Festool battery is about 72Wh, so you would need 14 of them to achieve that capacity!

A kWh isn't going to run anything for long continuously. A vac and sander maybe an hour. It would be better suited to cutting, where the 'duty cycle' is on average over a day low. A Kapex and vac could probably make upwards of a 100 cuts.

A Tesla has around 70kWh minimum .

Its a lot of lithium battery!
 
[member=44099]Cheese[/member] [member=5277]Alex[/member] , Thanks, I’m learning as we speak. I have felt there was something familiar with the melody - I’ll hook it on the sound that is, well, annoying electronic in sound [embarassed]

To be honest, most of the time I only recognise the sound from a room far away or being outside when the charger is inside. So in these situations it’s valuable, but when it’s going off right next to me it’s not - so said the misses back then [big grin]
 
i underestimated its capacity. So I suspect I underestimated its price too!

For the UK it seems to be 230Vac only, no built in 18V charger either.

If we assume they can do it for USD2000, I'd be interested in whether this is an attractive proposition for contractors working on sites.
 
What I'm starting to wonder now is, since it is a 230 volt power source, does it come with the usual protections a standard electrical installation comes? I already read on that site linked above that it has no grounding. I wonder how this thing is going to comply with all the legal obligations for 230 volt power sources.
 
It's no different to a generator, and I suspect is governed by the same regulations.

If a particular territory requires additional electrical protections to be used when using a generator on site, then those same requirements would apply here. People have been making, approving and using generators for decades, so I can't see it being an issue really.
 
Prices SYS Powerstation are online now.
€3.509 incl. VAT, but are already advertised for €2.999 incl. VAT.
Available from May 2021.

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Lol, at €3000 I don't think they will sell like hot cakes. People gonna be terrified that little box is grabbed by someone when they're looking the other way.
 
Pretty neat things (powerstations).  Something that for sure can displace generators for a lot of stuff.
 
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