TS55 FEQ Stalling intermittent power cutting out

[mino]

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I am going to pull my cars out of the garage and move my work and the saw in there to see if it does it on the power from the house.  If so, I will be returning the saw and trying out other brands.  If it does not do it on house power, I will need to investigate my main panel in the shop.  It is only a couple years old, but maybe it is bad???  Not much else that it could be at this point.

If possible, try the saw on a socket that has a direct wire to the breaker. I.e. the "first" socket on a circuit. Even if you need to use an extension cord. When we were wiring a friend's house, he even had a special unprotected outlet installed inside the main wiring cabinet that bypassed all advanced breakers like GFCI etc., including lightning protection. Idea was that the socket will remain live as long as there is power to the cabinet, no matter what, without having to mess with the wiring. Was also meant as a direct/clean a power point in case of any issues like yours.

The thing is there can be a mis-behaving breaker and/or some bad connection that causes an intermittent voltage drop or fluctuation under load. "Simpler" tools, i.e. those with slower or no safety electronics would keep running. If you had a friend with proper gear like oscilloscope with memory etc. that would be best, one can dream .. right ?

Either way, that the electrical company says "power is clean" does -not- mean much. Unfortunately. They check only for the most common issues. If there is something marginal, the normal checks would not detect it, only once it turns straight out bad. Which can take years ..

The other thing is you may have some tool or device connected that is causing weird spikes on the wires. At college, neighbour had a microwave that caused computers connected close to it (wire distance) to crash randomly. Took us half a year and several RMAs till we figured it out. By that point we were running our important kit off a double-conversion UPS ..

 

[Joe Brown]

Well it did it in the garage as well.  I tried two different outlets.  I am tired of chasing the issue.  I returned the saw to Rockler and got the Makita.  Hopefully no issues with it.  I can already tell fit and finish of the Makita is not a nice as the Festool.  But if it powers on and stays on, I will be happy.  I checked out the Milwaukee online and would prefer it over the Makita if they just made a corded version.  The Milwaukee seems to have a lot of similarities in features as the Festool. 

 

[SoonerFan]

Well it did it in the garage as well.  I tried two different outlets.  I am tired of chasing the issue.  I returned the saw to Rockler and got the Makita.  Hopefully no issues with it.  I can already tell fit and finish of the Makita is not a nice as the Festool.  But if it powers on and stays on, I will be happy.  I checked out the Milwaukee online and would prefer it over the Makita if they just made a corded version.  The Milwaukee seems to have a lot of similarities in features as the Festool.

Sorry the TS did not work out. Good luck with the Makita.