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Comparing Different Battery Generations and Capacities

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The First behind the scenes look EVER allowed at How Milwaukee Tools builds power tools & batteries

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This comparative step provides a visual journey through the technological evolution of Milwaukee battery packs. The presenter arranges a selection of batteries, spanning various generations and capacity ratings within both the M18 and M12 lines. This side-by-side comparison clearly demonstrates the advancements in design, changes in physical size, and the evolution of internal components over time. It highlights how improved cell technology, more efficient packaging, and enhanced Redlink intelligence have led to increased power density, extended runtimes, and more compact form factors in newer battery models, reflecting continuous innovation in cordless power solutions.

Goal: Compare the physical and technological evolution of Milwaukee battery packs across different generations and capacity ratings.

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step up we have what's called an XC battery that has 10 cells so the interesting thing here is that you have twice the amount cells what we're going to maintain the same voltage right so when okay when you step up here even though the voltage is stay we're actually putting out more power and then finally if you step up to the HD battery it has 15 cells once again 18 volts more cells more power so to help illustrate this is good let me show you what that means so you actually if you take our m18 peel drill and put a compact battery on it you pull a trigger hear the sound you know step-ups the xt battery you get a sound difference of higher pitch so it's actually outputting more power okay now what i will tell you is that it's tool dependent right so it depends on the electronic and motor set in the tool of what's that power difference going to be for every product but the benefit of having the intelligence in there is that we can communicate with a tool to say I can put out more conversation yes your tool syncs to the batteries of the battery and the tool talk to each other so you not burning there too a lot is my blame and understanding of innovate you're absolutely right am i right all right hey talk to each other to make sure that they don't destroy each other right and then they also optimize performance okay so but we can we go all the way up and down we can use any one of these batteries in this tool and it will communicate even with the HD 12x or batteries for the biggest to the littlest without burning that to it all right that's great and that's something that we take for granted but a lot of companies that actually have different battery platforms that you can't cross mingle because they don't is it because they don't have the technology because they did yeah they don't have technology and invest in the electronics on it so a great example is you know the this competitive hack no electronics right so if you try to run the more powerful tool and your continue to push motor electronic performance okay you run into a lot of issues does it can't protect it so so no are we you know you've got these chargers here and then we're also gonna look at the motors yep Andrew am i right correct okay so what I want you guys to know is we're gonna actually break this into two videos so I want to make sure that we this end of it and then in the next video we're gonna actually start to look at these motors and then bring this tie this whole thing together but…

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