What's your tool/battery ratio?

[FigureItOut]

And how do you keep them distributed and rotate them?

In Bosch 12 volt I have 4 tools and 3 batteries. I keep batteries in the driver, and impact driver, when one dies I charge it and pull from the other. The jacket has it's own battery that gets charged after every use.

In M18 I have 7 tools and 5 batteries. Drill, impact, reciprocating saw, OMT and vacuum usually have a battery in them, right angle drill doesn't get used much and light is usually used on 110 so they stay empty except when needed.

I don't keep any on a charger, but occasionally I'll pull them all inside and charge everything, which I did today and thought to make this post.

How about you?

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[dodge610]

In my craftsman C3 system I have a 1 for 1 ratio plus 1 spare battery. That way there is allways a battery to put in the tool. And every tool has a battery.

 

[Richard Cranium]

I have 2 batteries for each tool, That way I can be charging my next one to use.

 

[martin666]

Have a Snap On bit driver, 1/4" impact, 3/8" impact, all 3 take different batteries, have 3 or 4 batteries for each. Have 4 different Craftsman C3 tools, have 3 lithium batteries to share between them.

 

[dodge610]

I have 2 batteries for each tool, That way I can be charging my next one to use.

Can you say OVERKILL sheesh

 

[crewchief888]

in my service truck
milwaukee 18v fuel 3/8" dr impact
18v fuel grinder

2 4.0 batteries

milwaukee 12v LED flashlight
12v 1/2" fuel hammer drill

1 2.0 battery
1 4.0 battery

in the house

milwaukee 12v 3/8" drill (non fuel)
12v 1/4" hex fuel driver

ridgid 18v 1/2" drill
18v 1/4" hex driver

2 2.0 batteries

ryobi 14.4 volt circular saw
1 battery

 

[LAROKE]

No batteries. All my devices have cords. It wears me out just to have to charge my phone and tablet several times a week. Seems like I'm always replacing UPS backup batteries at work too. The current (no pun intended) state of battery technology is a big irritant to me.

 

[ambenz]

I have a Black and Decker drill and a Black and Decker Weed Wacker, one battery each.
I got the tools at different times so I dated the batteries and rotate them between charges. I don't use the weed wacker all season so it's nice to have a back-up battery.
Having said that, these 20v lithium Ion batteries are frackin awesome!!
I can keep the drill in the trunk out in the freezing cold for months on end.
I go to use it and it is working like a freshly charged battery. Amazing!

 

[vartz04]

I try to keep it one to one but if I have rarely used cordless stuff I won't keep one special for that (lights, radio ect) right now I am 1-1 on my Bosch 12 volt stuff and 4-5 on the 18v (no battery dedicated to the flashlight)


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[WhiskeyRanger]

I have 2 batteries per 3-5 tools. I'm transitioning from DeWalt 18V to "20V" and will be picking up another battery once the adapter is available.

I do very little heavy duty repetitive work at home, so there is no need for more than 2 batteries, and pretty much every cordless tool has a (unused in years or decades) corded version. At work, I'll sometimes need multiple batteries on a job, but then I just grab one of the Hilti's in the shift box with a dozen batteries available for the countless tools we keep there.

I buy batteries in series rather than in parallel.

 

[dutchgray]

Makita LXT 2 tools 3 batteries
Bosch 18v 3 tools 3 batteries
Bosch 10.8v 4 tools 3 batteries
Panasonic 14.4v 5 tools 8 batteries
For the stuff I use daily I like to have at least one battery per tool plus a spare per system, but generally you can never have enough batteries.

 

[mrvm]

And how do you keep them distributed and rotate them?
In Bosch 12 volt I have 4 tools and 3 batteries. I keep batteries in the driver, and impact driver, when one dies I charge it and pull from the other. The jacket has it's own battery that gets charged after every use.

In M18 I have 7 tools and 5 batteries. Drill, impact, reciprocating saw, OMT and vacuum usually have a battery in them, right angle drill doesn't get used much and light is usually used on 110 so they stay empty except when needed

Got at least two batteries per power tool and the batteries are removed from the power tool during storage. The connector is disconnected or battery is also removed from the heated jacket because there always seems to be some power drainage when leaving the batteries in the power tool or heated jacket. Any lithium battery that has not been used for a long time is placed on the charger at least every 6 months.

 

[johndeereman]

2 batteries for every one tool.

 

[JonDick13926]

Right now it's two tools and two batteries, but that will change soon when I buy a high torque milwaukee impact during zoro's 15% off day.

 

[cajunfirehawk]

I run Milwaukee and I have about 4 M12 tools and maybe 6 batts total for those, I have maybe 8 m18 tools and I have about 6 batts too BUT for my M18 tools I try to rotate my batts for them: IE every two years or less I sell them off and up grade to the latest amp hour, currently 5.0 batts since they change so fast.

 

[anndel]

8 tools to 5 batteries

 

[ajchien]

Ryobi Li-ion12 tools, 7 batteries
Porter cable ni-cd: 3 tools, 2 batteries
Craftsman Nextec: 1 tool, 1 battery

I will go through 4 ryobi batteries on a weekend, sometimes 6. most of these tools are yard/garden tools. I'll rotate through the big 4mah batteries. The smaller batteries I'll use for tools that I won't want the extra bulk and weight on.

My porter cable includes my impact driver and drill. If I'm on a wood working project, I can start with a battery for each tool, but when one runs out I'll have to swap a single battery between the two tools which is a annoyance. And often I'll run the second battery down before the first one finishes charging. That's very annoying, since I then have to drag out the extension cords.

 

[MushCreek]

Milwaukee M18. I have 5 tools (including the flashlight) and 5 batteries. The only reason I have so many batteries is that I've been building my house, so I use the tools all day long. I've never run out of batteries in the course of a day. I have all of the same tools in corded versions, and rarely use them.

 

[bcradio]

I run Milwaukee and I have about 4 M12 tools and maybe 6 batts total for those, I have maybe 8 m18 tools and I have about 6 batts too BUT for my M18 tools I try to rotate my batts for them: IE every two years or less I sell them off and up grade to the latest amp hour, currently 5.0 batts since they change so fast.

Interesting concept here... sell the batteries before they go completely out so you can recoup some money vs having a pile of dead worthless batteries.

 

[bczygan]

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