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Why are you glad that there are multiple battery connectors? Makes no sense to me. It’s like disagreeing with AA batteries. It’s like electric cars having diff

Why are you glad that there are multiple battery connectors? Makes no sense to me. It’s like disagreeing with AA batteries. It’s like electric cars having different chargers and no standard.

bombcar 4y ago
Because the companies can develop different toolsets that do different things (the weight/power tradeoff for one, some battery connectors allow more than just voltage to cross, but also information and the tool can work with the charger/battery to produce better power), and for me the actual downsides have been minor or none. Even construction guys often have a huge mix of various tool brand and battery types and it's sometimes a minor annoyance. And you'll notice that AA batteries are almost universally ... gone; replaced with built-in batteries or custom-wrapped lithium batteries. Standards are great when things are calmed down, but when there's rapid advance they can cause their own issues (we saw this in the wireless world). Even the electric charger for cars thing runs into the limits of the standard (the fastest charging is almost always non-standardized). Having a "baseline" standard for those could be nice, something like we have with USB, but even that has its annoying problems.
- smegsicle 4y ago
  long live 18650
- bb88 4y ago
  > And you'll notice that AA batteries are almost universally ... gone; replaced with built-in batteries or custom-wrapped lithium batteries. Ever open up a Dewalt battery pack? It's a circuit board and a whole bunch of 18650's. All of them are 3.7 V. What's different is the amount of power they supply and the energy they hold, how fast they can recharged, etc. But we have that with the AA/A/C/D standard as well. Some batteries can hold more energy, some can deliver more current for a longer time, etc. NiCad, Alkaline, NiMh... etc.
dimensionc132 4y ago
Why can't you people talk directly about the problem/issue rather than in analogies and abstractions?

Why are you glad that there are multiple battery connectors? Makes no sense to me. It’s like disagreeing with AA batteries. It’s like electric cars having different chargers and no standard.

bombcar 4y ago

Because the companies can develop different toolsets that do different things (the weight/power tradeoff for one, some battery connectors allow more than just voltage to cross, but also information and the tool can work with the charger/battery to produce better power), and for me the actual downsides have been minor or none. Even construction guys often have a huge mix of various tool brand and battery types and it's sometimes a minor annoyance. And you'll notice that AA batteries are almost universally ... gone; replaced with built-in batteries or custom-wrapped lithium batteries. Standards are great when things are calmed down, but when there's rapid advance they can cause their own issues (we saw this in the wireless world). Even the electric charger for cars thing runs into the limits of the standard (the fastest charging is almost always non-standardized). Having a "baseline" standard for those could be nice, something like we have with USB, but even that has its annoying problems.

smegsicle 4y ago
long live 18650
bb88 4y ago
> And you'll notice that AA batteries are almost universally ... gone; replaced with built-in batteries or custom-wrapped lithium batteries. Ever open up a Dewalt battery pack? It's a circuit board and a whole bunch of 18650's. All of them are 3.7 V. What's different is the amount of power they supply and the energy they hold, how fast they can recharged, etc. But we have that with the AA/A/C/D standard as well. Some batteries can hold more energy, some can deliver more current for a longer time, etc. NiCad, Alkaline, NiMh... etc.

dimensionc132 4y ago

Why can't you people talk directly about the problem/issue rather than in analogies and abstractions?