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Inside the batteries on the most Popular Power tools: Ego Vs Milwaukee vs Dewalt Vs Stihl 4 k video

What happens here

The discussion moves to the protection of the battery's sensitive electronic circuit boards. EGO batteries are highlighted for their 'potted electronics,' where the circuit board is fully encapsulated in a rubber-like material. This potting offers superior protection against environmental factors like moisture and dust, as well as physical stressors such as vibration, which are common in power tool applications. In contrast, other brands are shown using a simpler 'conformal coating' – a thin, glossy layer that provides less robust protection, leaving the electronics more vulnerable to damage from impacts or moisture ingress. The engineer emphasizes that proper potting significantly enhances the battery's overall durability and reliability.

Goal: Compare methods of protecting internal electronic components.

Tools and materials

  • Disassembled Power Tool Batteries — Demonstrating potted versus conformally coated electronics
  • Glossy Conformal Coating N/A — Light protection for circuit boards
  • Rubber-like Potting Material EGO — Encapsulating circuit boards for protection

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equipment in your house kids might be doing or you might hire someone in the job right that doesn't take care of batteries the way that you would you drop it you want to also make sure that you're protecting against paper so this is before that's before and this is after do other companies use this same we just started seeing it coming out this year we were the first right we've been doing it since the beginning of ego we're now starting to see some manufacturers pop their electronics but nobody else does what we're doing here with the arc design along with upended phase so let's look so these are all the latest versions of these companies battery systems yeah right I don't see potty but I see this glossy coating what is that well that protection yeah I'm gonna let the smart guy talk about that because Corey knows us better than anyone yeah so this glossy layer that's a conformal coating so it's kind of like a level-one of protection whereas rotting is more of a level two or three really this is mainly gonna protect against moisture and dust a little bit it's a very thin layer so it could be more susceptible to cracking over time or something getting in there whereas the padding is really a solid layer of rubber that's given you a lot of protection and not against just moisture but vibrations so this is actually poured on oh yeah so this is actually like all liquid that's poured into there's a tray here and that tray is actually designed to fill up to hold it on this is more of like a brand yeah this is like straight on and then UV cured whereas this is dispensed and it's gonna kind of sit there and cure over time okay I see brick brick brick brick brick I don't see any other changes in design so these guys if I'm understanding this technology right then their batteries on the outside are doing okay but the batteries on the inside they're not you don't have your special whatever this thing is called based change technology and so that these batteries can be suffering from degradation cells the temperature is really critical if these get too hot they can that can start to degrade their lifetime and also if they're too cold that can for them but mainly when they heat up obviously when you're using them you're going a lot of current and they're heating up so think of it like the weakest link of the Achilles heel the one that gets the hottest it's the one that's gonna die first and that's gonna limit the life's time of your whole pack so even though the other…

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