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Demonstrate Ingress Protection & Competitor Comparison

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What happens here

To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proprietary ingress coating, a Milwaukee Forge battery is shown submerged in water within a clear tank, actively running. The representative clarifies that this simulates an extreme '24-hour shower test' for rain exposure, ensuring the battery's internal components remain protected. Adjacent to this, the internal core of a Forge battery that underwent this test is displayed, appearing brand new and fully functional, contrasting sharply with a disassembled competitor's battery that suffered severe corrosion and functional failure after the same test due to lack of proper ingress protection.

Goal: Illustrate the superior ingress protection of Milwaukee's Forge batteries compared to competitors.

Tools and materials

  • Clear Water Tank Custom setup — To visibly submerge the battery and simulate water exposure
  • Competitor's Battery — To show the corroded and damaged internal components of a battery without proper ingress coating
  • Milwaukee Forge Battery — To showcase the intact and protected internal electronics after water exposure

What they say

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is actually really fast for this much to pass yeah it is and then you have one running underwater here so what are we looking at with this okay so what we're looking at here is I just walked you through that high-speed air cooling yeah and when you're forcing that much air through something you need to have the confidence that the inside of the battery is protected right against dust debris dirt water Etc if you're opening it up so what we're showing here is uh just meant to simulate one of the tests we run where it's uh being exposed to rain right so imagine something being left out being exposed to rain you want to make sure your investment's protected so if you flip around here what we actually have is we have a proprietary Ingress coating on this battery it wraps the entire internal core of the pack to protect it against that so this battery actually came from that test you would never know it because it looks like it's brand new oh how long did you run that for over 24 hours so it's a 24-hour shower test and it sits for a few days and this pack was opened up and this is what it looks like it looks brand new now this is what a competitive equipment battery looks like note that they have venting for air cooling on their charger as well however because they don't have the proper Ingress coating what happens is it corrodes and it takes it to the point where the fat the pack doesn't function anymore was this 24 hours or was this it's the same exact test yep 24 hours and they run side by side the same exactly okay yep so what this means is that your investment's going to be protected right they're using an abusive environments and what it means is you can focus on getting the job done and not worrying about did I accidentally leave something out okay um but you said this is the beginning yes the beginning steps yes what did you mean by that okay great question so uh with red lithium Forge it is a long-term promise and what I mean by that is a couple batteries that we showed you today yeah are the very beginning to have that Journey what my teams have in development uh is is pretty exciting uh so what that means on all of our systems is over the next few years you will continue to see technology advancements in both batteries and chargers to continue to push capability forward and you take everybody's batteries apart everybody that has a battery you take it apart in your lab yeah we do that for we do that for two reasons right like uh one we want to…

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