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Methodical

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today at work I pulled the trigger on my M18 fuel hydro hex driver. the lights came on, but the tool did not move. I hit the battery button, and it flashed the 0-25% bar.

i'm trying to think of what kind of switch you could put in the battery that wouldn't have enough voltage drop to need a heatsink/substantial amount of cooling/wouldn't run down the battery AND passes high amps. not sure what it is. an my M18 leaf blower will kill a 12.0Ah battery in <15 min which is something like 55 amps, and all the SSRs I have in the 30A+ range have massive heatsinks. most transistors have a voltage drop just shy of a volt, which adds up to heat.

I'm not saying it can't be done, but I'm not sure what it is.
It's not just Milwaukee blowers that will kill a battery pretty quickly. They all pretty much do that. That's one battery powered item I have that will kill a battery if it just looks at it.
 
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Methodical

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Damn you EGO! I saw this new stripe roller "coming soon" on ACME. Now you can get those MLB stadium like lawn stripes in your front yard! I may get this just because I've got a few OCD Lawn ayeholes on my street. They'd be "green" with envy when I do the front yard in a double tartan pattern!

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Go ahead and get it. If, from what I see in the photo, you can remove the roller by lifting it off the mower mounts without having to remove bolts, I wouldn't hesitate to get it, unless they charge some crazy price for it, like $600.
 

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mike93lx

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I'm right on the edge of maybe being able to use a electric push mower. How do the plastic decks hold up to sticks and such? (lots of sticks...I live in the woods...and I'm not raking the yard before I mow) Dog toys and little animals aren't out of the question either.
After using mine for a year, I can say the deck strength doesn't appear to be an issue.

Part of that is because of low blade speed. My ego 21" doesn't pick up many sticks or pinecone at all unless it is ramped up from a heavy load. It just leaves them be. I don't mind with the pinecones, but it's annoying when it doesn't mulch up all the pin oak leaves in my yard or the odd grass clump that I pull from a flower bed and toss into the lawn
 
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Loew's Kobalt brand 21" I believe, 80 volt rear-wheeled powered mower, was a close-out our son bought for his house, approx. 11K sq ft. apart from the building, rear porch & driveway/sidewalk, call it something between 6-7K sq. ft. Was offered with one ? amp hr battery of moderate capacity, he got a more-powerful one also. I borrow it now for our home, and it does the cut of a slightly smaller yard on the larger of the two batteries. You hit taller grass, it speeds up. No issues in 2 seasons. I was skeptical at first when he said he was getting one, but truthfully I like it more than my Craftsman 21" front-wheel powered 6 HP IC engine mower. That's a few years old, bought new, and for some reason it's become temperamental. I disassembled and cleaned the carburetor within the past year, and flushed the gas tank, new sparkplug, new air filter, but suddenly it decided not to work. I borrowed our son's electric, and was impressed by how easy it operates. I mentioned getting one to replace my gas mower, he told us just come & borrow it whenever; we're < 1 mile apart, so that's convenient. Height adjustment is easy.
 
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