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LXT Advantage: Brushless Motors, Batteries, and Chargers

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This extensive segment delves into Makita's 'LXT Advantage,' focusing on their philosophy of purpose-built brushless motors, batteries, and chargers. Makita, originally a motor company, designs each brushless motor from the ground up to precisely match the requirements of each tool, rather than adapting off-the-shelf components. The display showcases various motor sizes (38mm, 44mm, 52mm, 80mm, 120mm outer rotor), illustrating how performance, design, and durability are central to their engineering. The 120mm motor, specifically, is used extensively in their outdoor power equipment, including new lawn mowers, to replace traditional gas products. The segment also covers LXT batteries, emphasizing their 'One System' approach with 'Star Protection' that safeguards against overload, over-discharge, and overheating. Finally, the LXT Rapid Optimum Chargers are highlighted for their engineering, which optimizes battery life by controlling current, voltage, and temperature, and cools the battery for up to 3x faster charge times.

Goal: Explain Makita's LXT Advantage in motor, battery, and charger design.

Tools and materials

  • Makita Brushless Motor Displays Makita — Illustrating the different sizes and designs of Makita's brushless motors (38mm, 44mm, 52mm, 80mm, 120mm outer rotor)
  • Makita LXT Battery Displays Makita — Showcasing the internal components and protective features of LXT batteries

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got several different examples of motors here all of which really tight certain tenets of motorcyle bats performance design and durability so each one of these has a very very unique application whether it is something like 38 millimeter motor so it's a nice compact design to reduce size for decently we have to something like 52 millimeter motor and something brand new this is our 120 millimeter motor that came here specifically a new lineup and so this is that you've exploded one of your battery chargers why Chargers as well just to see the design technology that goes into it again designs everything so you guys consider how you charge the battery to be as important as how you design the battery itself necessarily abuse buts misuse and everything's from time to time the performance and then the limits your efficiencies and everything on the jobsite as well see it's a big circle and all these different elements the tool designed the battery designed the charger designed the motor design the ergonomics all of these are very very essential elements and we take all of those into consideration when we designed any to it so here's another one just coming out Matthew brand-new in Canada will actually be launching this in the first quarter over here this is the DK p18130 in a quarter inch

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