win for the midi

[notenoughcash]

using it with my erbauer ero450 to sand some filler and skim, and not a bit of dust was lost.

and its also quite good looking [wink]

 

[Coen]

Yes it's a nice machine.

If you turn the Midi on manually, then attach sander to the Midi and turn that on too, what happens with the Midi when you then turn the sander off? Does it go off after a few seconds, or stay on?

 

[squall_line]

Yes it's a nice machine.

If you turn the Midi on manually, then attach sander to the Midi and turn that on too, what happens with the Midi when you then turn the sander off? Does it go off after a few seconds, or stay on?

I just tested this with my MIDI-I today.  Turned the MIDI on using the Man button on the pad, turned on the sander, turned off the sander and the MIDI turned off ~3 seconds later.

 

[Coen]

Ahaa. So according to the Festool guy I spoke on the phone... that is a defect.

I am trying to get mail confirmation of that statement before sending in my Midi, but now I get some gray language...

Imagine this; put vac on manual on, attach dust collection accessoire to wall, attach wired drill to vac and drill hole. Halfway in you want to check the hole depth, turn off drill.... and the dust collection acessoire drops to the floor. Makes no sense to me and nor do the CTL 22 or 26 behave like that. But your and mine Midi I does.

 

[squall_line]

Ahaa. So according to the Festool guy I spoke on the phone... that is a defect.

I am trying to get mail confirmation of that statement before sending in my Midi, but now I get some gray language...

Imagine this; put vac on manual on, attach dust collection accessoire to wall, attach wired drill to vac and drill hole. Halfway in you want to check the hole depth, turn off drill.... and the dust collection acessoire drops to the floor. Makes no sense to me and nor do the CTL 22 or 26 behave like that. But your and mine Midi I does.

I would imagine/hope that this could be fixed with a firmware update, considering the whole thing is run by silicon and pads.  If so, EU is lucky, US not so much.

 

[notenoughcash]

Yes it's a nice machine.

If you turn the Midi on manually, then attach sander to the Midi and turn that on too, what happens with the Midi when you then turn the sander off? Does it go off after a few seconds, or stay on?

yeah, thats what happens.  i dont find it a problem

 

[Coen]

Well, as long as you don't use it the way I do or similar, it's not a problem yeah

 

[tsmi243]

Problem or not, that would annoy the hell out of me. 

 

[Coen]

That would be a problem too then  [tongue]

Well, it's really more that some people don't mind the symptoms of the problem apparently. The trick I do becomes so much harder if the vac doesn't cooperate. In case of concrete; I attach a Bosch GDE 162 to the wall, drill pilot hole with my SDS-Plus machine (attached to the vac), then swap over to my SDS-Max machine (attached to the vac), then with 82mm core cutter make the hole. Halfway in I take out the center drill of the core cutter, then finish the hole. Then I swap back to the SDS-Plus machine and chisel out the core. All the time, the vac is running. This works perfectly fine with CTL 22 and CTL 26, but with the new Midi I... my GDE 162 would drop to the floor three times already.

 

[mrboult]

My Midi act like this too. I quite like it. But I see, given the usage examples, how it might be a frustration.

Could probably just plug that drill into another socket when using the CT Wings though. .

 

[Coen]

Could probably just plug that drill into another socket when using the CT Wings though. .

When working on adding more outlets, the circuit that has outlets closest by is usually switched off  [wink]

It's not about the wings btw, but same would apply yeah.

 

[notenoughcash]

i dont use mine for wall extraction as i have the on tool extraction unit for my SDS, and that works a treat.  all fits in a mackpack sys 4  and still room for bits and a m12 charger....

 

[Coen]

Same, (well, except for the M12 and mackpac) for masonry and aerated concrete, but not for hard solid concrete. Not seen on-machine extraction for 82mm core bits in SDS-Max. Even with 8.8 J it already takes long enough.

Water is no option in already inhabited places.