New FLEX Tools Introduced at SEMA!

Am curious as to when the batteries are running low how is the performance of the tool?
 
Ronin47 said:
Am curious as to when the batteries are running low how is the performance of the tool?
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Don't they all suffer in performance, but it does have a battery life indicator so you can switch before it gets to that point..which imo is a cool feature.
 
Rsurfer said:
Don't they all suffer in performance, but it does have a battery life indicator so you can switch before it gets to that point..which imo is a cool feature.
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With my other lithium ion batteries it goes balls to the wall until it's dead

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Rsurfer said:
Don't they all suffer in performance, but it does have a battery life indicator so you can switch before it gets to that point..which imo is a cool feature.
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It would be cool and convenient if they followed Rupes thinking of offering the same polisher with battery and corded options-problem solved.
 
Ah. "Later in the year" (not sure if they mean this year or 2018) a cordless 3401 version will be announced. I'd line up to buy one of those!
 
And the new 3401 will have a cordless option too, that’s awesome.


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Ronin47 said:
It would be cool and convenient if they followed Rupes thinking of offering the same polisher with battery and corded options-problem solved.
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I agreed with that. I hope it is not an only battery tool.
 
They look really nice but my first thoughts are:

You're gonna need way more than 2 batteries or you're going to be buying batteries quickly due to max charge cycles.

They are going to charge a serious premium for the batteries and it would be (and I'm assuming they're not) great if you could use
some more generic-y battery like Makita or DeWalt or .....

If they offered an AC adaptor cord w/ a dummy battery on the end so the device is NOT limited to battery-only.
 
howardm4 said:
You're gonna need way more than 2 batteries or you're going to be buying batteries quickly due to max charge cycles.
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I've settled on one brand of cordless tool for exactly this reason. Depending on what you're doing you need several batteries. Needing several x multiple brands just makes for too many batteries to manage, as well as chargers. I have one charger for all my cordless tools and enough batteries in different sizes that are always charged.

Not saying I wouldn't break that rule for one of the new Flex tools, but needing another set of batteries and another charger is a concern for some of us.
 
So me being a mobile guy this new cordless Flex da is the perfect tool not only can I carry it in a detail back with me when I go to car shows to do test Bots for potential customers but when I'm doing a basic wash in a car and if a customer happened to say hey I've got this scratch over here you think you can get it out I don't have to set everything up pull out the polisher my generator extension cord plug it in drag out a hundred foot 1/4 what not I just pop in the battery work the scratch and be done with it so yes for practical use as a mobile detailer this is genius if I was detailing entire car I don't see this being very practical or something that I'd use

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Cruzscarwash said:
So me being a mobile guy this new cordless Flex da is the perfect tool not only can I carry it in a detail back with me when I go to car shows to do test Bots for potential customers but when I'm doing a basic wash in a car and if a customer happened to say hey I've got this scratch over here you think you can get it out I don't have to set everything up pull out the polisher my generator extension cord plug it in drag out a hundred foot 1/4 what not I just pop in the battery work the scratch and be done with it so yes for practical use as a mobile detailer this is genius if I was detailing entire car I don't see this being very practical or something that I'd use
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Holy run-on sentence Batman! (j/k Cruz)
 
BadgerRivFan said:
Holy run-on sentence Batman! (j/k Cruz)
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Lmao! I was thinking the same thing! When I got to the last part I thought, wait what the heck did he just say there at the end? I had to read it twice to figure out where the sentences should end in order to make sense of it.
 
Eldorado2k said:
Lmao! I was thinking the same thing! When I got to the last part I thought, wait what the heck did he just say there at the end? I had to read it twice to figure out where the sentences should end in order to make sense of it.
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Yeah I'm pretty bad about doing talk to text a lot of times it comes up screwed up

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