in defence of a single battery architecture

In reply to eastsideTim :

Ooooh, nice. I hadn't seen that one. I've got their flood light and their spot light, but that bad boy looks handy.

In reply to the_machina :

I've never seen it in stores, had to order it online.  I only knew it existed from watching mighty car mods.

Turbo_Rev said:

There could be enough consumer outrage over it that manufacturers would second guess DRM-ing their batteries. 

Cordless power tools have been pretty common for the last 15 years and no such outrage has really occurred.  If red team has a new tool that they are first to market on yellow team will have one the following year to not lose users. It keeps the market competitive.  

In reply to Steve_Jones :

My battery string trimmer and blower are so much better to live with than my gas ones were.  I never used to edge until I got them. 

Has Europe made a standard battery law yet ?

They just made a law that all phones and phone stuff need to have the same USB C charger

RacetruckRon said:

Turbo_Rev said:

There could be enough consumer outrage over it that manufacturers would second guess DRM-ing their batteries. 

Cordless power tools have been pretty common for the last 15 years and no such outrage has really occurred.  If red team has a new tool that they are first to market on yellow team will have one the following year to not lose users. It keeps the market competitive.  

And it's also decently-easy to build you're own and "hack" a universal system into them; the most complex battery electric tool I've yanked apart had a 3rd wire as a signal and a 4th for a temperature probe from the BMS.

Dewalt 20v drill and driver that I bought. 

Brother in law gave me a Makita 20v set with drill, driver, sawzall, and circular saw with only 1 battery.  Long story, but it was all free so he kept the extra 2 batteries for himself.  Still have spare batteries on my Amazon list but NOBODY ever knows what to get me for Christmas...