Do any of these have a plug in adapter? Like a battery pack with a cord coming out of it?
Good Lord that should be a thing.
Some of the bigger tools, like vacuums or table saw do. Unfortunately the little tools are too cluttered with miscellaneous Bluetooth circuits to fit both AC and DC motors or more reasonably AC to DC converters.
You mean a battery that you can plug a cord into? I have some I got from Ryobi.
Yes, Festool do one for their sanders. A battery tool is usually more expensive and less powerful than a mains powered tool though, so I'm not sure what the advantage of this would be.
Edit: I read this wrong, but I’ll leave it up because I think the inverters are cool.
I wonder how easy it is to DIY something like that. Like would it be as easy as picking up an off the shelf power supply with the right voltage and current and 3D printing an attachment that fits into the battery slot with a DC jack on the side (or even just gutting a dead battery pack and taking out the batteries and control electronics, soldering a DC jack straight onto the main contacts, and drilling a hole for it to poke through)? Or do modern power tools actually need to authenticate the battery with some kind of tool DRM?
idk about modern tools but this totally works with an ancient Bosch drill I had, well at least the motor with speed controller from it
Do any of these have a plug in adapter? Like a battery pack with a cord coming out of it?
Good Lord that should be a thing.
Some of the bigger tools, like vacuums or table saw do. Unfortunately the little tools are too cluttered with miscellaneous Bluetooth circuits to fit both AC and DC motors or more reasonably AC to DC converters.
I’ve only ever seen the opposite…power inverters that run off the batteries…
Just buy a mains powered tool, they're usually cheaper anyway.
I need battery powered tools most the time.
You mean a battery that you can plug a cord into? I have some I got from Ryobi.
Yes, Festool do one for their sanders. A battery tool is usually more expensive and less powerful than a mains powered tool though, so I'm not sure what the advantage of this would be.
Milwaukee has two: a small one and a big one.
Edit: I read this wrong, but I’ll leave it up because I think the inverters are cool.
I wonder how easy it is to DIY something like that. Like would it be as easy as picking up an off the shelf power supply with the right voltage and current and 3D printing an attachment that fits into the battery slot with a DC jack on the side (or even just gutting a dead battery pack and taking out the batteries and control electronics, soldering a DC jack straight onto the main contacts, and drilling a hole for it to poke through)? Or do modern power tools actually need to authenticate the battery with some kind of tool DRM?
idk about modern tools but this totally works with an ancient Bosch drill I had, well at least the motor with speed controller from it