On 13/09/2017 14:31, 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.

Point noted about the fact you meant the bigger tools so there is no
need to mention a 110V impact driver:-).

I now have a very nice and very new 36V Makita SDS and a very nice and
very new 2kg 110V DeWalt SDS.

If I am going to be on site for a while then the 110V drill is my first
choice.

I also chose the 110V angle grinder and the 110V circular saw but I
chose the 18V jigsaw (I can use one of the firms 110V ones if needed for
bigger jobs). My main use for the jigsaw is cutting the case on a CU
swap and power is usually off when I do that.


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Adam