#Dewalt 18 volt battery packs portable
#Dewalt 18 volt battery packs plus

Cordless soldering irons that are just the pencil are very handy to carry around and work on things in otherwise less convenient places and positions.

#Dewalt 18 volt battery packs plus

That plus whatever modifications are necessary to get those guts working off an 18V battery pack.īut then I thought a bit harder about it. A store display module with no actual components would have been perfect! I just wanted to gut it and swap in the internals of one of those nice open source regulated soldering irons that are out there.

So I started thinking about looking for a used or clearance Ryobi soldering station just to use for it’s shell and battery connector. I was disappointed to see that it was a mostly empty shell with no real temperature regulation. I’m not sold on this form factor as an actual tool though.Ī while back I watched a teardown video of Ryobi’s version of this. Nice hack if it’s a hack for the purpose of being a hack. I found what claims to couple of Dewalt-style battery cutoff circuit chips on Ebay, and I hope to try integrating one into the ONE adapter. I also have a Ryobi hand vacuum and a cheap Dewalt-to-ONE adapter. On the other hand, in a pinch it lets me suck all the available juice out of the battery, which can be a useful trade off. Using it involved making sure to keep checking the battery voltage monitor and swapping out after hitting the single-LED status. It will drain the battery to the point that it will not recharge without being boosted to get the cell voltages up to the minimum level acceptable to the charger. I bought one of those cheap clip-on inverters that takes the Dewalt batteries. After reading about the “activation” process that was supposed to be in some of the Ryobi tools, I dropped them from consideration which was probably a mistake. I’m not saying Ryobi tools aren’t up to constant use (I really have no idea about the ruggedness of the Dewalt tools either). If I had it to do again, I might have gone with cheaper tools (probably Ryobi) since I’m not a professional… I’ve really over-spent on tools/batteries that I just use occasionally. I’d avoided any significant battery-based tooling for years knowing that once I got into a battery system I’d be committed. I recently ended up getting into the Dewalt 20V ecosystem. All you need is for one cell to drop out of spec and the charger will refuse to charge.

A combination of the worst possible conditions ofr battery life: more frequent recharging of battery packs that aren’t sufficiently discharged. Who wants to have a tool die in use… go ahead and swap batteries early and drop it on the charger. I suspect that shorter battery life may have more to do with frequent “topping off” of batteries before they are more fully discharged. I see the logic of the approach, and it makes sense in a way, but it makes the use of Dewalt batteries with 3rd party tools kind of risky. I believe that there is cutoff circuitry, its just in the tool instead of the battery and the cell balancing circuitry is in the charger (at least as far as the latest “20V” batteries and the brushless tool models are concerned). Posted in Misc Hacks Tagged dewalt, drill batteries, solder, soldering iron Post navigation If you’ve been whipping up your own gear to solder on the go, don’t hesitate to drop us a line! Some are even completely handheld, with no external wires or power supplies to speak of.

#Dewalt 18 volt battery packs portable

The high power density of lithium rechargeable batteries has led to a proliferation of portable soldering irons in recent years. The design also features a lithium-ion battery protection circuit of ’s own design, to make up for the fact that DeWalt don’t integrate them into their battery packs. This allows him to use the rig with a wide variety of common soldering iron handpieces, like his favored Hakko FX-951. Armed with this tool, included it as part of a simple compact portable soldering iron design that relies on the off-the-shelf T12-952 controller board. It’s a little piece of plastic with spade terminals inserted to act as the contacts. The build relies on a simple 3D-printed adapter to suck power from a DeWalt drill battery. Thus, he set about to build such a rig himself. noticed that Ryobi was using them to power soldering irons, but no such tool existed in the DeWalt range. Power tool batteries are a convenient portable power supply for all manner of different things.