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Understanding Battery-Tool Communication and Charging

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

What happens here

This concluding step focuses on the integrated system functionality, illustrating how Milwaukee batteries seamlessly interact with their compatible tools and chargers. The presenter demonstrates the physical process of attaching different battery packs to various cordless tools, such as drills and impact drivers, and explains the electronic communication facilitated by the Redlink intelligence system. This communication ensures that the tool draws power optimally and efficiently. The step also includes a brief overview of the charging process, contrasting the functions of standard and rapid chargers and discussing how each type affects battery lifespan, charging speed, and overall efficiency within the Milwaukee charging ecosystem.

Goal: Comprehend the seamless communication between Milwaukee batteries, tools, and chargers for optimized performance and efficiency.

Tools and materials

  • Milwaukee Cordless Drill Milwaukee — Demonstrating battery-tool connection and operation
  • Milwaukee Rapid Charger Milwaukee — Highlighting faster charging capabilities and their benefits
  • Milwaukee Standard Charger Milwaukee — Demonstrating the standard charging process

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this whole thing together but before we let you guys go tell me about these Chargers and what these batteries means so that these guys can go what the heck does an ex e CP hdh a what did all of those monikers stand for great yeah it's a great great question so with the batteries you know we have the compact CP stands for compact so it's just the little guy X C stands for extended capacity so it's like the middle the road and then HD stands for high demand so it's like there's really power-hungry stuff right hey and then within that we have this new introduction of batteries called high output right so high output is utilizing a new cell technology what's called 21700 cell okay and then we've also advanced the electronics and the the pack design to take full advantage of that so the benefit is when you step up from our red lithium to read lithium high output you instantly see a 50 percent jump in power and then it runs significant link or two so the benefit there is that we're able to maintain compatibility like you mentioned and keep pushing performance to get past levels of 15 and quarter or to cycle gas right but I want to also talk about because a tool that is waiting for a battery to charge is not money yep so have you taken into consideration I want these guys to have a good wrap their head around what is the difference between these charters and what does it mean to the batteries are we gonna be burning out of battery if we get a super charger and put on a regular or a great question yeah so so we similar batteries we have three different types of chargers right and what we have is a standard what we call rapid and super the difference between these chargers is charge time so as you step up you're cutting your charge time in half so to paint a picture for you let's use the 12:04 as an example as you take the 12'o you put it on our standard charger it's gonna take about four hours to charge this thing now if you step up to the rapid charger same exact battery right same exact 1200 battery you step up to the rapid charger put in there now your charge times down to two hours so you went from four to two hours by just changing the charger okay and then really what's impressive is the latest technology which is called a super charge is that out it is not out yet it's getting ready to launch in July okay yeah and now what's happen is you take that same battery same 12'o put on here it'll charge in under one hour so you want from four hours to two hours to…

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