Cord or Cordless?

[frank001]

With these new tools you can either go cord or cordless:

https://www.toolsofthetrade.net/pow...medium=email&utm_campaign=TOTT_110618 (1)&he=

 

[LXCam]

I could certainly see some benefits on the power hogs. I know if I did finish carpentry for a living I'd be looking at some of those options. That would certainly eliminate some redundancy depending on how much work you'd needed to produce in a given location. Hour over here, hour over there - cordless, all day cutting trim in one spot -roll out the cord.

Interesting.

 

[Crazyjake8493]

I guess it's good that they offer the option to run corded, though most guys who have a cordless rotary hammer, table saw, etc already have a fleet of batteries, and running out of power isn't a concern. I can see this coming in handy if you have a long day or forget to bring extra batteries and need to get a little extra work in, but if you're doing the type of work where you'd go through several batteries in one tool, you should likely be using a corded tool anyway.

I have a few cordless tools with the option to plug in, and I've never once considered dragging out a cord for them instead.

 

[kctyphoon]

I’m surprised their offering an AC adapter.. Dewalt did this years ago, and Makita has one for the Greenlee Makita powered tools. Expensive though.. it seems like most places wouldn’t wanna make one these days, cause my guess it would impact tool sales. Now we wait for someone to fit in into a Milwaukee M18 pack.. I’m not digging that giant transformer though.

 

[acer66]

Dewalt offers at least a cordless miter saw with a power adaptor option.

 

[Alexander]

I would use something like this more often than I care to admit, though it would need a bit more advancement before it would fully suit my needs.

In the shop I have every tool and more batteries than I could conceivably use, but when I go onsite for just a day or two lugging my tools around the streets by hand, I pare way down, and often pick just a couple tools, which is one of the places where corded vs cordless can make a big difference.

Of course every job ends up being different, but sometimes the tool you reluctantly brought but didn't think you'd use that much if at all becomes the most used tool of the job.

 

[PhysicsDude]

Problem is, a beefy 18V tool (the kind that you'd want to run on a cord) can draw well over 30 amps at 18V. A transformer/power supply that can supply 30 amps would be huge, bulky, and expensive. If you step it up to 36 or 60 volts (like the Metabo 36v adapter in the link, or Dewalt FlexVolt tools), that brings the current down to more manageable levels.