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[nova_robotics]

Both Milwaukee and Makita make really good quality cordless stuff that will easily replace corded.

In years gone by the greedy morons designing these things used a different battery on every tool, so nothing was interchangeable and you'd have to continually replace expensive batteries. Someone grew a brain cell and realized that if they made the batteries across a brand interoperable, you'd suck people into your ecosystem of tools. I was resisting moving to battery op for ages because I had experience with older technology and thought they were junk. Then I bought a single Ryobi tool at Home Depot and, due to the sunk cost fallacy, now own a whole bunch of Ryobi battery op tooling.

[mwmkravchenko]

In years gone by the greedy morons designing these things used a different battery on every tool, so nothing was interchangeable and you'd have to continually replace expensive batteries. Someone grew a brain cell and realized that if they made the batteries across a brand interoperable, you'd suck people into your ecosystem of tools. I was resisting moving to battery op for ages because I had experience with older technology and thought they were junk. Then I bought a single Ryobi tool at Home Depot and, due to the sunk cost fallacy, now own a whole bunch of Ryobi battery op tooling.

Yep. I am not that young. I have been burned by Skill who made a great drill in the 80's, Dewalt that chose to change batteries like some change underwear, and Rigid. Rigid burned me on their 24 volt system. Worked marvelously. But discontinued. I ran Ryobi when they were quality tools and then Home despot bought them out and cheapoed the whole line. I switched to Makita. Been using battery products since 1982. They have come an awfully long way.

Makita has had the same 18 volt battery system for 20 years. I'm in!

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