On Wed, 13 Sep 2017 14:31:19 +0100, Bill Wright wrote:
It sounds so attractive! No power cord! Use it where there's no mains!
But battery tools are rubbish compared to 110V or mains ones. Now I
don't do site work any more I can buy mains powered tools, and what a
revelation they are!
Firstly there's the fact that a mains powered tool can cost less than a
replacement battery. For instance a battery for my reciprocating saw
would have been £120. A new mains powered saw was £110.
Then there's the fact that battery tools run out of power just when you
don't want them to. So have two or three batteries and run mains for the
charger out to where your working ? Give over!
Then there's the fact that battery tools are always underpowered. You
pay more than twice the price for less than half the power. Even the
bigger battery tools tend to be rated at 300 to 450W, whereas the mains
equivalents are usually 1kW+.
And what a difference having adequate power makes! The job is so much
easier. Mains powered tools just glide through the work. The battery
equivalent would be slowing chugging along, then stopping due to a flat
battery.
Why people buy battery tools to use at home I really don't know.
Ignorance of the customer plus the vendor's sales hype I guess. Thinking
about it, I bet a lot of people who buy a battery drill have never used
an electric drill before, so they won't realise how limited their new
toy is.
Bill
Horses for courses.
I use a battery drill for winding the legs on my caravan, for example.
I also found a battery drill far easier than a mains drill for fixing the
very large tin roof on the very large shed. No trailing cables to drag
around.
A battery impact driver is also a tool of choice because you aren't tied
down to a cable.
Anything requiring serious grunt, such as sawing, SDS drilling and the
like is much better using mains. Angle grinders!
Anyway, the local builders use a mix of mains and battery tools depending
on use case.
I think you are trying too hard in your last paragraph; a lot of DIYers
here use battery tools and quite a few have power tools as well, and have
used mains power tools for yeah these many years.
Cheers
Dave R
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