Cheese said:
I finally received my CXS 12 back from Festool Service today, as they have been waiting to receive parts from Festool Germany. The bad news is that it took almost 5 weeks to receive the drill...but the GREAT news is that it no longer appears to have that annoying screaming noise that it originally had. [thumbs up] I haven't had the opportunity to use it yet as I'm re-installing the fencing that was removed when the garage was built last fall but initial testing/playing with the drill, tells me the loud raucous noise is no longer there.
Sweet...maybe tomorrow I can find some time to thoroughly check it out.
FWIW...the parts that were replaced by Festool are as follows:
10724119...Electronic
10724114...Trip
10723955...Housing
10543173...Nameplate
So today between projects I decided to test the recently Festool serviced CXS 12.
Yesterday, with the torque dial set at #13, the sound was the same
non irritating noise at full trigger pull, whether it was set at speed 1 or speed 2.
Last night, I set the torque dial to #Drill and at speed 1 the sound was like the day before but at speed 2 the sound was once again that horrific, irritating high pitched
scream.
Earlier today I tried the same experiment and at EVERY torque setting from #1 to #Light On and at full trigger pull it gave me the same
non irritating sound whether it was set at speed 1 or speed 2.
Later this morning, I picked up the drill and fully pulled the trigger. The drill was left at the settings I tried last, #Light On and speed 2, the high pitched
scream was back. Moving only the torque setting to #13 and the scream went away, I then returned the torque setting to #Light On and the high pitched scream never returned...there's some weird stuff going on.
I also noticed that the #Light Off setting doesn't work as the LED continues to light.
I'm going to work with it a bit more and notice what else is wonky.