Recent content by blenderfender

Sorry, I misread your original post and assumed that you were connecting the M18 terminals directly to an M12 tool. Agree with the other posters that a higher current converter is probably needed.

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I doubt it would get hot enough to trigger a thermal shutdown after a few seconds. There's probably an overvoltage sensor or an RPM limiter that's shutting things down. Assuming that's the case, you'll need to step down the voltage, using a device like rlitman shared.