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I can build a house, do the plumbing in it, restore a car and rebuild the engine. But for some reason I know little to nothing about electricity / electronics. Maybe its because I was electrocuted a few times as a kid and wanted no part of that 🙂 If I can build an adapter plate is there any reason an M18 battery can’t power the Ridgid 18v Router, it seems simple enough. What am I missing?
I don’t know, Milwaukee and the whole red link thing- supposedly the tool and battery talk to each other. Not sure if it’s true or just marketing or maybe I’m just understanding it wrong
Someone did this already but for the life of me, i can’t find it …
It may void your warranty even if there is no modification to the battery because the battery is supposed to have electronics in it. Otherwise, I’m pretty sure there’s a fair bit of modification you’ll have to do to make it physically fit. Then you have to hope the pins are the same.
in regards to the red link the battery and tool have chips in them, thats where they “communicate” pre say, i want to say Makita has all the electronics in the tool, dewalt may have them all in the battery, not sure how ridgid is set up but wouldn’t surprise me if its similar to Milwaukee, same blood lines just the orange step child
all you would need is an adapter like dewalt has for using 20v on 18v. Shouldn’t void warranty because you don’t modify either the battery or tool. Would probably need a chip inside the adapter to ensure battery works correctly with the tool.
JimboS1ice wrote:
On 2/26/2017 at 5:30 PM, JimboS1ice said:in regards to the red link the battery and tool have chips in them, thats where they “communicate” pre say, i want to say Makita has all the electronics in the tool, dewalt may have them all in the battery, not sure how ridgid is set up but wouldn’t surprise me if its similar to Milwaukee, same blood lines just the orange step child
Almost zero electronics in a 20v DeWalt battery, there are only the fuel gauge and a temp sensor. Ridgid/Ryobi batteries have lots-o-tronics and while clearly different form factors of their boards the electo components are identical.
I’m really not that concerned about the warranty as I’ll just buy the router from HD, if I fry it I’ll just return it. They take anything back 🙂
SetBuilder wrote:
I’m really not that concerned about the warranty as I’ll just buy the router from HD, if I fry it I’ll just return it. They take anything back [emoji4]
That’s reassuring lol
Jimbo
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I bought this hose kit at HD about 3 years ago. It was a total piece of crap. Its just a poor design where debris catches on the ends and it constantly clogs. I got fed up with it and it was just hanging in my shop. Last weekend I took it back to HD and they gave me store credit, no questions asked.
SetBuilder wrote:
19 hours ago, SetBuilder said:I bought this hose kit at HD about 3 years ago. It was a total piece of crap. Its just a poor design where debris catches on the ends and it constantly clogs. I got fed up with it and it was just hanging in my shop. Last weekend I took it back to HD and they gave me store credit, no questions asked.
hmmm Ive been using 1 a couple months and no problems, usually hooked to a sander but on the occasion of larger debris I’ve never had a clog,
its also paired with a HEPA filter and a muffler as well
JimboS1ice wrote:
3 hours ago, JimboS1ice said:hmmm Ive been using 1 a couple months and no problems, usually hooked to a sander but on the occasion of larger debris I’ve never had a clog,
its also paired with a HEPA filter and a muffler as well
My shop is in a car port so leaves always blow in. They constantly clog that hose, where as the stock one never clogged for me. Even in a lot of the reviews people complained about it clogging. Its the way the ends go on compared to the stock hose.