Excellent and informative video. Like others who have commented, I quite like a more modest charge rate when time allows. So the standard charger gets the most use with the smaller capacity batteries I tend to use. I own standard and rapid chargers. Thanks again.

Think the discrepancy with the display is because the cell balance is out. But your overall voltage is the same. Love your video thank you

ANYBODY HAVE A NEW MILWAUKEE DRILL M12 BATTERY EXPLODE WHEN IN USE?

HORRIBLE TEST, this guy is making WAY TOO many assumptions and assertions. Anyone who ACTUALLY works with electricity on any capacity (not just on paper) knows there will always be a voltage variances for LIKE ITEMS. That’s just the way it is

Wait till you measure the heat coming off your food. Your food is radioactive theres a reason stomache/digestive tract cancer are so prevailent

Grow Grow Grow, Grasshopper! 😊

honestly i think it's probably fine, definitely pushing the limits, think if you put one of those small batteries on a grinder it would last probably 2 minutes or so, it would be hot, you just discharged all that energy in that time, if it can charge in in what seemed to be around 15 minutes by what you said, thats power going out at approximately 6 times the rate, if you look at a lot of lithium batteries for vehicles and boats they might have a 100amp discharge and 50 amp charge rating, thats 2x discharge rate, i know its not the same thing but id say it probably is fine, and most likely a lot of specs are just precautions and probably overexagerated from manufacturers, some days here are 36c so the battery would likely be too, especially if its in the sun, then you use it and heats it up itll be 40-45c probably, i'm sure it is ok, maybe the battery will only last 5 years instead of 6 or something, its awesome to see you test all this stuff though because how else would we know. love the channel its just my 2cents don't stop doing this stuff because its very interesting.

When I run my 12 AH battery on my vacuum, the slow blink happens when I can hear the vacuum starting to bog down, and it’s usually my warning that I’ll need to swap batteries soon. Once it starts blinking rapidly, it’s dead and needs to be charged.

The 2.5 has more power than the 1.5?

great source of info regarding power/battery usage, cheeRs

Wonder if the board counts how many cycles of charges.

Moral of story....buy extra batteries and save $200 on Super Charger for Rapid...

I like the channel. Nice job on the video. Hope to see more m12 and m18 discussion. Also curious as to if they would be easily modified for even better batteries?

For context, a typical incandescent night light bulb is around 4 watts, and most (well over 90%) of that energy is converted to heat. So, if you were to build a box with 4 square meters of surface area around a night light, the amount of heat put it off would be similar to the amount of microwave energy coming out of that oven.

Great test

Fr is flame retardant , will not support a flame

Does the 3.0 XC have 6 1500 milliamp cells ?

I had a Hitachi microwave, and when the Ukraine invasion started, I was afraid of a possible nuclear accident. With my GMC320 (Geiger counter), radioactivity began to rise, and I discovered that it was coming from my microwave! I recorded 70 cpm inside the microwave.(unpluged) The natural radioactivity in my region ranges between 15 and 25 cpm. How is this possible ?

so what charger is the best for battery life

I'm only at the start of the vid - but I heard the 3.0s are really crap - so I got the 2.5 HO with the tool, gonna report back after my tire change in October!

This channel would be the perfect compliment to the torque test channel. A deep dive into all the various batteries out there. You have your work cut out for sure. Nice work 👍

Can you do a video about China made vs mexico made batteries please

Any plans to tear into the 5.0 HO?

3:32 you completely skipped a crucial detail, what was the size of the security torx screw?

What about if you cook food inside the microwave them test the food for radiation?

That's my battery that you found....

Does it leak out of just the crack or the entire door? How far back does it leak to???

Great video! Thank you for your work. Exactly the info I was looking for. 2.5 definitely my favorite M12 battery. I feel like the bigger ones defeat the purpose of the slim nature of M12 tools, at which point if I need a bigger battery might as well go M18 for that specific tool

can you turn a basic charger into a rapid charger?

Monitoring the battery temps during the charging is the only thing I wished you had also done. Maybe a round two?

So… I shouldn’t have spent the last 27 years with my forehead against the microwave door as I watch the food? Lol

And imagine all the cheap ones off Amazon made by god knows who.

now . im using the 2.5ah and 5ah . they have much more power than old one. i said to my work mate " watch out for the torque on 10mm bolt or nuts.

hi. where are you? I actually put the batter and torch togater in a bin other day. I was really upset about the torch, beause it didn`t stand and keeps rolling on the floor. and i smashed on the floor and still working . and i decied to let him go. this is stupid battery and torch setup. Im not gonna use that again.

I’m using the standard charger on all my batteries 2.0-12.0. I can wait and they will last much longer

Hi,do the rapid charger charge the normal m18 and m12 battery.

My battery light flashes quickly but when I put it in the charger the led is green immediately. All the cells measure 4.2v

background music sucks make videos with no music that is the best route if you want a little of music in the intro, that is fine but in the whole video, that is annoying

and what is radiation level at half a meter from the microwave oven? not many people would be sticking their head right on the door of the microwave as it is running

Do you recommend warming up the car before driving ??

Learned a lot, thanks

im sure i did look closely when i was cooking cake as a kid a few times but defo i need to check that microwave now many years later

How did you remove the cells from the red casing?

I love finding things like once I was at my local scrapyard and found a big ol prybar (that was very clearly forgotten and abandoned) and as it turns out the hoe is worth 150 and has made me thousands so sometimes it's good to look the hell down

I like this I came for answer and I got it of this video boom bing no click bait no ads no false advertising not having to wait for people talking the whole video having to skip thank you 👍🏼

Why does milwaukee use such low capacity batteries? Rather than say a vtc5a

A lot of my questions answered in this video. Excellent content because nobody on Reddit or forums answered things like what the difference between cp 3.0 and xc 3.0 Any chance you could cover the HO 5.0?

What size security torque bit do I need to remove screws?

You missed the current, the super charger only supercharges the HO 6.0, 8.0 and 12 at 12 Amps and the rapid charges all M18 at 6 amps that’s the difference, the down of the SC is that over time it will degrade your batteries faster than the rapid, but not that much really, at 200 cycles it is expected to hold 80% of its capacity so it depends on what’s you do or what you want

Hello. Please tell me is this a super charger milwaukee M12-18SC ? Can it be connected to a 220 volt network ?