We need an 18 volt RO90....

[Shane Holland]

Mort I believe was suggesting that the tools be DC, and the you either use the battery, or a DC supply that comes from the wall and plugs into the battery's slot.

That would be elegant.

Yes, understood. But that wouldn't be something you could retrofit to an existing tool... That's why I proposed an alternative going DC-to-AC. In reality, this is just a wish and not likely to happen anytime soon in either form. But, fun to spitball.

 

[Kev]

[member=48572]Shane Holland[/member]  [member=46908]Mort[/member] I believe was suggesting that the tools be DC, and the you either use the battery, or a DC supply that comes from the wall and plugs into the battery's slot.

That would be elegant.

In your design, does the converter battery replacement have a plug-it socket? [big grin]

[member=40772]Holmz[/member]

 

[Mort]

^^^ That's what I had in my head. I didn't realize the AC/DC thing was such an issue. There must a way around it.

 

[Holmz]

[member=48572]Shane Holland[/member]  [member=46908]Mort[/member] I believe was suggesting that the tools be DC, and the you either use the battery, or a DC supply that comes from the wall and plugs into the battery's slot.

That would be elegant.

In your design, does the converter battery replacement have a plug-it socket? [big grin]

[member=40772][member=48572]Shane Holland[/member]  [member=46908]Mort[/member] I believe was suggesting that the tools be DC, and the you either use the battery, or a DC supply that comes from the wall and plugs into the battery's slot.

That would be elegant.[/member]

I would scrap the entire AC line up. You sell an AC cord that plugs into the battery slot and outputs DC. That would be "plugit" if all the batteries are the same.
The difficulty would be the vacuum and the sensing circuit to start the vac.
One could have a Plug-it on the AC inlet side, of the DC supply.

 

[Holmz]

Mort I believe was suggesting that the tools be DC, and the you either use the battery, or a DC supply that comes from the wall and plugs into the battery's slot.

That would be elegant.

Yes, understood. But that wouldn't be something you could retrofit to an existing tool... That's why I proposed an alternative going DC-to-AC. In reality, this is just a wish and not likely to happen anytime soon in either form. But, fun to spitball.

You could retro fit it to every existing battery tool because it could replace the battery.
All the new AC tools probably would be better with DC motors, which I think is what the Curpix motors in the Mafell's are.
Milwaukee and Metabo also have some good DC brushless stuff, so I so not believe that AC is better, but I am not overly knowable on motors. My little drill looks like a pansy sized tool, but outputs torque for a fat wristed fellow, and the battery lasts a long time.