Cheaper than the 2Ah battery by itself ($59).
Reviews are raving, and people have given insight as to why it exists at all but I still don't entirely get it.
Whatever the scenario, the equivalent kit of what I'm guessing is the new model? Is $89, three times the price.
Crazy when you think DeWalt sell a 1.7Ah battery for $170.
Seem to be readily available in all stores and online, I just ordered four which will probably last me from now until the end of time.
Would this work with something like this?:
https://www.emax.co.nz/Cordless-Electric-Air-Duster-10075.ht…
Or would I need an adapter. Its like all the aliexpress tools that take the makita battery :)
true but that's 77 😭
Two of them used on TradeMe for $44, one inc battery (but you'd still have to buy this battery for the charger)
Adapter, they have them under PXC on AliExpress as it's now a global brand owned by the German company Einhell, so Makita to Einhell/Ozito/PXC adapters are available.
With that being said, that tool you linked is 21V and Ozito batteries are 18V, so it SHOULD run as it's not a big difference, but it will be slightly slower (1/7 less power).
21v is the max pack voltage of an 18v 5 series pack since its 4.2v per cell charge voltage. Like all the dewalt stuff is sold as 20v in the US, its just an extension of the same lie.
Usually those cheap tools come with a 21v wall wart that plugs straight into a DC socket on the battery to charge them up which is why they label them like that.
Gross, I didn't know that they were doing that.
That's never been how voltages work on battery packs, that makes me think less of the higher repute brands that deploy it.
I was thinking they had 6S or something funky like that to stop people adapting batteries from other brands or so they could advertise their tools were more performant.
Thank you! That makes sense. Ill pickup one then :D
Sweet, I'm actually intending to experiment with the adapters a bit myself. I have some Mako (Warehouse) tools that work great, but the batteries are utter arse, so going to see if I can design and 3D print an Ozito battery to Mako tool adapter.
rrp?
Technically $30.
This is how much these things should cost. The pack is 45 Wh in capacity, I'm not sure exactly what's in it, but that's maybe 5 18650 sized batteries which is the most common size. They wholesale for ~3 NZD, so it's about 15 NZD of battery, plus the charger, packaging and margin.
Shruggie, and a pack of razor blades is cents of material. The batteries are usually the profit centre.
Ozito actually have more in them than a lot of way more expensive packs do, like mosfets to cut the power and an actual balance board instead of just bricking the pack when it gets too far out of balance.
I got one of these chargers with one of the cheap tools I got and had to banish it to the shed as it has massive coil whine. Even the 2 slot ozito charger has some noise from it, but its less.
Man, I've been floating through the Bunnings website and Einhell are cranking out the tools, it's awesome. There must be four or five times as many since I last looked and they're all reasonably priced. Even have heavier duty stuff now, like a hand band saw and a 400nm impact wrench, not that I need either of those.
At $90, the workshop vacuum is dirt cheap vs other brands and I can't see any sign that its any less powerful than the home vacuum, just no motorhead (for twice the price).
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