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High Voltage - Lightweight power without the pesky cord
June, 2005
Mark Powers
This Old House

Imagine a circular saw so perfect the most bantam handy lady could use it with ease while the burliest contractor could make little 2x10s out of big 2x10s all day long. Now gaze to the right.

Milwaukee Electric Tool's new saw is part of a six-piece line of cordless tools powered by a 28-volt battery that weighs less than the standard 18-volt. Thanks to the same lithium-ion technology fueling cell phones and iPods, these mighty batteries hold enough juice to run the big guns; reciprocating saws, hammer-drills and steel-cutting band saws. They offer up to twice the run time and allow the tools to go full bore from start to finish without any fade in power.
Milwaukee's V28 line offers other features the editors of This Old House haven't seen before too. A step of LED lights on the battery pack reveals how much power is left. Unlike your old screwgun, which gets sluggish when its time to recharge its NiCad battery, the lithium-ion driver works and feels the same until the battery stops dead in its tracks. The lithium-ion battery won't overheat and lose power, and it's not affected by cold weather either.

You'll pay about 50 percent more for a V28 than you would for traditional cordless counterparts and up to four times the price of corded models, but as an incentive to replace those dinosaurs at a quicker rate, Milwaukee offers a better deal on its combo kit -Mark Powers.

2005 Editors' Choice Grand Award
May/June, 2005
Tools of the Trade

In the rapidly evolving world of cordless tools, there has been one constant: more power means a heftier, larger tool. Until now. Milwaukee has broken new ground in the power vs. weight tug-of-war with its V28 line of lithium-ion 28-volt cordless tools that promise more power than standard 18-volters while weighing about the same.

Rising to this challenge has meant cracking the battery code for lithium-ion batteries (the same technology used in cell phones and laptops) to make them work in high-current-draw applications. After nine years of research and development, Milwaukee engineers used lithium manganese to formulate their lithium-ion technology, and, working with an energy partner, developed a cell with higher power and longer run-time. Internal tool circuitry allows the cell to be optimally used for wide temperature ranges, allowing the battery to be used with everything from a flashlight to a circ saw. V28 is the result of vision and hard work that paid off.

Independent research released by Milwaukee supports the company's claims that V28 tools have equal weight and size as the traditional 18-volt platform, but offer up to 40-50 percent more power and up to twice the run-time. Tests also showed that the V28 circ saw can cut 60-158 percent more OSB than competing 18-volters and the Sawzall recip saw made twice as many cuts than competing tools in 2x10.

In addition to delivering more oomph with less heft, Milwaukee says the tool batteries offer fade-free power throughout the charge cycle, and they are not affected by hot or cold temperatures. A built-in fuel gauge indicates remaining run-time.

The V28 line initially will include a circular saw, Sawzall recip saw, hammerdrill, impact wrench, band saw, and work light. More tools are in the pipeline.