wapatowoodworking said:
Paul_HKI said:
My ‘opinion’ is intended to point you towards the cause of the issue you’re encountering.
Thanks for sharing your problem and ignoring the pointers towards resolving it, or establishing your an understanding of why it may not be possible to resolve it with the vac you have.
You’re welcome.
nothing has been ignored. the only question i asked was "does anyone else have this problem?" you didnt suggest anything that was useful and it actually is possible to resolve it with the vac i have. I didn't ask for your opinion about control circuits or makita quality. i didnt actually ask for help resolving the problem, although i appreciate the comments from people who left their biased personal opinions out of it. really though its been a complete waste of time posting here. i called festool tech support and they told me that yes, its been reported before that some non-festool products are triggered by this data recording chip "feature". ive already lost a whole day dealing with this sander and im not investing any more in it. ive personally experienced the slipping fence on the domino and a kapex that left tearout on one side of the cut, even after multiple blades and sending the tool in for warranty repair. personally i've had mostly bad experiences with festool. all my makita equipment works flawlessly. i didnt come here to trash festool but i also dont have any praise for them either. i guess that triggers you.
So, you want to know if others have had the same problem as you have with an unifentified Makita vac, but that’s all you want? Apart from a chance to complain, while ignoring some SIMPLE troubleshooting steps you could take. Well, okay then.
The amusing part for me is that you’ll be annoyed about this and probably even more-so when you realise that Makita could be Nilfisk, Bosch, Fein, could even be a Festool CT and you could have the same issue present requiring the same steps to be taken to get the problem resolved. I have Makita tools also. I like them. So that ‘triggered’ nonsense is exactly that.
You can either expect miracles and magic 8 ball diagnosis/root cause over the phone with two different manufacturers representatives, or you can help yourself by doing something more than asking if people on the internet have the same experience you do, while two people play tech-support tennis with you, or you spend a few minutes looking at a meter and ask Festool to check with engineering if the resting current draw is within spec while also asking Makita to check if there’s a minimum load to fire up the unidentified unit you own and which is reportedly misbehaving.
People on the internet and on the phone can’t do that. They can’t fix your problem, whether here, on a Makita forum or at a company’s tech support line.
And if all of that is beyond you, just put the kit in your car/truck/van and go to someone who can. If you’ve wasted a day with this, it isn’t going to fix itself by doing the same thing. And if you go someplace to share your problem, the one you can’t get your head around, don’t be an ass when someone who knows more than you do suggests, recommends or opines about what steps should be taken and the reasons why.
