Milwaukee M18 Forge Battery Teardown

[@aaronoconnor606]

I wish the high output battery bl4040f from makita would makes its way over to North America its really disappointing how they are ignoring us.

[@riba2233]

It will come, but idk why it takes so long

[@kizzjd9578]

Only taking ages because they dont want to change their tooling to suit imperial over metric.

[@aliancemd]

You could look at it the other way: Bosch and Makita are testing their products in other markets before these come to you

[@toolscientist]

2:00 By tipping it out, the button got held down. On some M18 batteries (mostly pre-2013, but they seem to have bought it back in the last year or 2), if you hold the button down, the LEDs flash in a pattern that gives manufacture date, number of charges, etc.

[@BuildsStuff]

Who just told you that? I'm gonna have to do some experimenting...

[@toolscientist]

@BuildsStuff I've seen videos of it previously. Someone also commented on one of my videos that the newer M18s do it, too. They made me a video, but I haven't got around to analysing it. I was about to reference this video to tell someone that taking apart forge batteries could void warranty. Then I watched it again and noticed that you laid the battery on its button, so I think it was the button push and not a disassemble detection

[@toolscientist]

@@BuildsStuff i first saw it at video ID: Rp6CUptw5mM - skip to 9m20s

[@OUTILSCLIPSQC]

This battery is powerfull and will not overheated as much as the HO and when paired with the new supercharger its a whole new world

[@riba2233]

Did ho 6ah ever overheat?

[@yorselrus1996]

​@@riba2233not mine but I rarely push my tools to the limit because I have respect and admiration for them. When might say I'm in love with my tools😮

[@riba2233]

Yeah, aluminium core pcb :)

[@toolscientist]

I wonder if it's mostly for reducing puffing.

[@riba2233]

@@toolscientist might be, idk how much it can help with the cooling considering it in only on the one side of one cell

[@onesikm3]

@@toolscientistmost likely it is there for two reasons but most likely for compression on those prismatic pouch cells and overall safety from something crushing the battery from up top 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@OUTILSCLIPSQC]

When you hold the button the led flash

[@medman36]

Battery looks more refined. I think the pcb board basically looks the same as the cilindrical model. I'm not sure if stacks are much better. I think I still prefer cylindrical cells. My biggest wish is that the charging and discharging bms were more accessible. It currently has a proprietary coding system that limits charging and discharging any milwaukee battery without proprietary chargers, instead of having access to universal charging options. With the current battery technology advancements, I think the technology is too limiting on this issue

[@BuildsStuff]

I've charged Milwaukee batteries with a car battery charger before when the voltage has dropped too low for the Milwaukee charger.

[@garden0fstone736]

Dude how dare you not want to destroy your $100 battery so we can see inside

[@ToolsAndStuffOFFICIAL]

They cost a LOT more than that.

[@TranTek]

There is an issue with power cutting out on high speed tools like multi tool Milwaukee needs to do a recall

[@EliotTruelove]

Really? That's crazy if true. Where have you heard that?

[@edwardlogan267]

Would it be possible for Makita to make a 3ah the size of their current 1.5 ah?

[@BuildsStuff]

Yes. They could use 1 row of 5 cells using the same cells they use in the 6Ah batteries

[@riba2233]

They could also use the new molicel P30B which have 3ah and literally double the discharge current of vtc6 cells they use in current 6ah packs :)

[@nakedapprentice]

@@BuildsStuff The cells in the 6Ah are quite prone to failure though, aren't they? Or is it something else? The consensus seems to be the the 5Ah is more reliable.

[@riba2233]

​@@nakedapprentice no, they are just weaker. Reliability is not an issue, they have a good cycle life.

[@edwardlogan267]

Would be so handy for lots of tools

[@robertrada4783]

See, I told you that the BL4040F uses pouch cells.

[@riba2233]

Rofl

[@aaronoconnor606]

Trolling 😂

[@BuildsStuff]

He's a troll alright.

[@toolscientist]

@@BuildsStuff he's even a professional troll as he's one of your patrons. The guy pays for the pleasure of trolling you!

[@BuildsStuff]

And he Trolls me every day on Insta. He's a complete pest. Pretty sure he wears women's underwear too. At least that's what his sister told me.