**UPDATE** We ordered the correct Bosch part number, but what was sent to us looks to likely not be the tabless model / we don't get tabless in the US. We're comparing Core to ProCore and there should be a + symbol on the outside for ProCore+. In contact with the retailer, unsure if it was just a mistake or simply what we get in the US for not having Bosch Tabless here yet.
If you do a New test with the correct Bosch. Could you do a use charge use charge back to back test? If they stay cooler you should be able to charge faster due to no time wasted for cooling down before charging.
@@riba2233 Yeah, big bummer. I let the battery guru guy know as well. Pretty cool that Bosch is using Molicel P42A's, i wonder how many charge cycles they are getting
Thanks god I checked the comments 🤯. Since Bosch was the first at the tabless party I found your test unfortunately plausible. But I watched a lot of other tests with BoschProCore+ (Tabless) and they all showed a big step up in performance. Really looking forward seeing you retesting this with the correct battery. And since your channel has some leverage in the tool community, I would suggest you edit the video and upload it again to avoid bad marketing and even a lawsuit.🧐
You should definitely edit the video and reupload. The vast majority of people sadly will not read the comments for critical information like this. The video should stick to the facts, and if an edit is required, so it should be.
The Bosch 8Ah Procore(1600A016GK )is the regular pack with normal cells and only costs 120€ in Germany. They have a tabless Pack called Procore+ 8Ah (1600A02X00) which costs about 180€.. The 8 AH Profactor seems to be what we call the normal Procore over here in germany.
As a Ryobi guy, it's rare to get a W on this channel. What's ironic is the shear amount of Ryobi tools that don't care what battery you use. The lights, radio, fan, multi tool, caulk gun, etc are just as good on an old 1.5aH black as a fancy boy. Recently bought the 6aH and 8aH for my vacuum. Might have to get me an edge and see what's what
Because all those tools don't require higher amounts of power n don't drain batts quickly. But for the ones that do, those small batts are more of a hassle than their worth. I'll wanna grab an edge battery just to see if it'll make some of their tools more powerful, like their hp hammer drill.. if it could add a nice boost in power, it would make it more of an actual pro grade level tool. Maybe
As always you don't disappoint. I often hear other channels reference your channel and even put links to your videos and in a good way. LOL keep up the great work.
Many years ago my main phone was an Oukitel K10000, 10ah, it lasted a week between charges, it was so good. Even if I used it really heavily, I still wasn't able to kill it in less than five days.
True. R, M, and D set the bar pretty high with their tabless packs. Hopefully Bauer has the integrity to step up their game (matching what will likely be the added cost) instead of just capitalizing on the marketing opportunity.
@@StihlRunnin Nah that's dumb. Get a breaker bar or an impact wrench. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should, or that it's a good idea. Work smarter not harder.
@Toolguy1 pliers wrench is a very mediocre tool. I own the 12”, 10” and 7-1/4”. I literally can’t think of a use case that I wouldn’t rather use a high quality adjustable wrench or a pair of Cobras. The head on the pliers wrench is absolutely massive to actually fit anywhere tight. That’s just me and my opinion, but I respect it if you like them. What do you use them for? For work I carry 10” Cobras and Twin Grips. I’m convinced Cobras are one of the best hand tools ever invented and I don’t say that lightly.
@@SkyForgeVideos _"Seems a bit pointless as you will never exceed the amount of force that can be applied by human hands."_ Because no-one in the history of the world has ever used a cheater bar on a hand tool, right?
The Ridgid was impressive to me. Smaller than the 3amp Octane and the new 4 still had a large board, same size batteries and a heat sink but was still smaller. For it's size to power it's a winner. Hopefully TTI will let Ridgid have a 6,8,or a 12map version here soon 🤞🏻
Really great to see! I’m a gang green guy, and just googled to see that Metabo HPT is also releasing a tabless battery. The 391991M T-PWR battery is listed on their site, but not yet in stock at either the jungle site or ACME tools. There is a matching UC36YSL2 faster charger as well, but would most love to know whether the green tools can benefit as much as Ryobi’s offerings.
We were putting up some trusses the other day in Michigan during the cold plunge and The forge is surprisingly resilient to draining can use it in a circ saw for days between charges.. we were mostly cuttimg 2x4 but did have to rip down couple sheets of osb ...the forge didnt skip a beat when it did die all i had was a xc 5.0 the thing wouldnt even finish a cut without cutting off
The forge is fairly new the xc is probably a year old.. also i got the forge with the saw so its my only "high" draw tool only really run drill impact driver and oscillating tool ...
If the saw in question is the new blade right that comes with Milwaukee's thick kerf blade, (2834-20, I believe) Milwaukee stated that the saw was designed to be run with the Forge batteries, in part due to the tweaks made to get the RPMs up to their ungodly spec. On that battery, the saw runs strong.
Hack = Buy a tool, get a free battery. Then you return the tool for a partial prorated refund and keep the battery. Home Depot does it all the time. Lowe’s just started doing it. Previously, you could only return both to Lowe’s for a full refund.
I like that tool companies are learning that not all of the people buying these things are full fledged mechanic shops. It’s nice to see companies like Walmart and now Ryobi getting the funding and R&D for cheaper offerings
Lets be honest, a lot of these tools are in the hands of weekend warriors that don't push them anywhere near what they're capable of. I think Team Red and Team Yellow in particular know a very large chunk of their revenue comes from DIYers strolling through Home Depot.
No I think they’re realizing that there are fewer “full fledged mechanic shops” using cordless tools than what they thought would happen. Most of us are not only heavily invested in pneumatic, they’re just lighter & more agile. Plus I still have yet to see a cordless impact wrench have the reverse torque to cause me to buy one. I will never deny the portability convenience of cordless but in my shop, air is king. It probably always will be.
Thanks for testing work-load runtime. This gets complicated as it depends upon the specific tool current demand and voltage cut-out, but this is the kind of comparison we need rather than just amp-hours. Even watt-hours fails to tell us how long the tool will actually provide useful work under load because higher currents always result in less total work, but these tabless cells do appear to have substantially less voltage drop and that's what progress in this arena looks like.
The Bosch ProCore you testet is not the tabless pack from Bosch. Its more less the Profactor you get here in Germany. The ProCore+ is the pack with the tabless-cells. Its Like with Metabos LIHD (non-Tabless) LIHDX (tabless). Thats how it is in Germany, maybe its diffrent in the US.
That Bosch battery you tested is not the The Tabless Pro Core Battery. That is the regular Pro Core Battery, what you all call Profactor in North America. The Tabless ProCore Battery is the ProCore+ 8AH 18V battery. Difference. Please Order those from Europe and then test it? Much respect for your work always sir. Love your videos a lot.
I bought one of the 9AH Flex Volts years ago and realized how premium it was. I made sure to buy another one before the battery disappeared? There has been no battery to top It, performance to weight; Until the 8AH Power Pack. Smaller, lighter and slightly stronger. The 9AH hour FlexVolt was just ahead of its time... 🤘👍
I bought a bunch of Dewalt 8ah tabless, and they are performing very well. I'm working on a near-vertical slop cleaning up brush with the 8-inch and 12-inch Dewalt saws.
Here in the US our regular batteries, even the ones still at LOWES simply say Core. But you may be correct, we ordered what Bosch shows as the right model number for tabless, but we have no "+" symbol on ours. So talking to the retailer we bought it from, it could very well not be tabless or we just dont get anything similar in the US.
same here, poor guys like me depend on decent quality and priced tools. harbor freight and hyper tough i have to have as a go to, can't and won't spend more dough on expensive tools,, unless,,,, the actual situation needs it.
One important thing that seems to not get talked about or hidden by some manufacturers is cell balancing. Apparently, DeWalt batteries don't balance their cells, according to Tool Scientist?
@@connerlabs The toolscientist video (#9) found no balancing circuitry in several chargers, not even in a model from 2023. It looks like these chargers access the individual cells or parallel packs only to check for single cell/pack over- and undervoltage. He tested this by "unbalancing" a pack and monitoring the charge current to individual cells/packs. There was unfortunately no balancing current to measure. Idk, I find this very weird for an expensive product. Although, knowing how easy and cheap balancing can be realised, even the crappiest no-name product should have battery balancing these days. "Should" as in "balancing should be mandated by law".
@@michaelseitz8938 cell balancing wastes energy, cells should not be balanced, simply monitor upper and lower limits with a shut down, when that shut down isnt acceptable to the user recycle the battery
@@IanRobinson-oh4yj The energy waste on balancing is peanuts compared to the energy that is wasted on a replacement battery pack after an unnecessarily early battery death.
Interresting results. I see the issue with the Procore 18V + was already mentioned. The standard battery with 21700 cells we get over here in europe is the regular Procore battery. The Procore 18V + is the one with tabless cells... however when Procore was announced, Bosch made statements of how they are able to actually deliver all the beans from the cells to the machines. They clamed they would use very thick wires to connect the cells in order to handle all the AMPS. I'm shocked you found a thin foil welded in DIY style to the cells
Purchased the Ridgid 8 ah Max Output EXP 2 pack for 160 OTD with the hopes of getting more runtime when needed vs swapping out Octane 3.0 Ah batteries. This video is just what I was looking for. Did not disappoint.
your animation on the graph is very unique and really love this! Nice work! Donèt be fooled by conformal coating thickness. These days you can get some Parylene coating which is super thin with great uniformity.
This is an awesome video. I really would like a better comparison of this battery design against all the other Milwaukee batteries though. Honestly, I have way too much invested in the M18 product line to change at this point, so I don't care about any other brands even though it looks like they are on top of their game. The only thing I really care about is whether it's worth it for me to buy some of these batteries for my saws and grinders. It makes a really big difference, especially when you're using a metal cutting saw. Because when the voltage drops the saw cannot keep running and it will stall mid cut and when it does the carbide on the saw blade tends to break and that gets expensive really fast. I found that the 9.0 and 8.0 batteries that I have are the worst at only cutting well when they are at full charge and do not perform as well as the 5.0 XP batteries at just maintaining the grunt to just keep cutting on the metal saw. I don't think it matters so much on wood because it doesn't tear up the saw blade when it stops. This sort of data was actually visible somewhat when you were comparing the Ryobi to the Milwaukee on the grinder test, but you didn't include very much data on that on the Milwaukee batteries. I really wish you would show us a comparison like that on all of the Milwaukee batteries. Honestly, for almost every other tool that I use I don't notice much of a difference on which battery I use. But the grinder, saw, router, and the leaf blower absolutely need to have the right battery for the job. The thing that I find interesting is that The 8.0 and 9.0 batteries I have perform very well on the leaf blower but on a metal cutting circular saw especially they do not perform as well as the 5.0 XP.
Would've loved to see the Edge battery tested in the PBLIW01 knowing how well it responds to just bigger Ah batteries. I realize 4Ah is less than ideal for a 1/2" high torque, but comparing Ah apples to Ah apples lets you extrapolate how much improvement an like sized Edge battery has over just an HP or High Performance.
You should do a follow up video with a link at the end of this on just to explain the Bosch confusion Excellent video anyway. Best testing content out there ❤
My understanding of why Bosch battery cells are unjacketed, is that it improves heat dissipation. Helping to keep the overall pack cooler. All least that's what Bosch have always told me the reason is. My own experience with them, does lead me the believe they might be right.
Bosch have some good videos on their Pro Core packs. You are right, it's mainly about heat dissipation, the cells are even put into the enclosure while it is still hot from the mould. This minimises any airgaps, if you have air gaps in the packs they can end up acting like a thermos trapping the heat inside. They also have a small wire inside each sleave so the battery can read the voltage of each individual cell. Also as with other Bosch batteries that white piece inline with the copper bus bar is a standard replaceable fuse. Other brands have a fused PCB track which will prevent a fire but the battery must be binned after that, on the Bosch you just replace the fuse and it's back in action. The Pro Core packs are only 3mm wider than the standard one which means they can fit in all the existing tools vs Makita who don't want to make packs with 21700 cells for tool compatibility.
Thank you for explaining tabless batteries in an easy to understand way! It seems like most places that talk about them want you to know they are smart.
Most informative and channel on TH-cam! Thanks for going into so much detail. Would like to see the new Northern Tool line Klutch tested. They are new and have a lot of bold claims. Saw them in store but could not find info on their website but a small ad.
Bought the wrong Bosch battery. Procore + is the tabless version. Completely thrashing Bosch on wrong grounds. Usually there is Samsung 40T in the 8.0ah pack. Samsung 30t in the 5.5ah Procore pack. Test the Procore+ battery and come back to us with the results.
24:23 “…their now number one best battery and it’s not even 60-volt, that’s pretty cool.” Why is that cool? I wish it worked with the 60-volt stuff as well. I would start using it on my FlexVolt trimmer, blower, etc. I currently use the 9AH battery, but the lighter weight is always nice. Great review as usual!
I think it would be interesting to add testing with a "perfect battery" through a power supply that has minimal voltage sag and very low internal resistance. Would provide some insight into what is a limitation of the energy source vs the tool itself.
Love my Forge 12.0's. They barely get lukewarm, no matter how much you abuse the tool you're running. Thanks for the latest episode! Makes visually seeing the differences on the meters much easier for an apples to apples comparison.
I'd be interested in seeing the Ridgid running the tables EXP battery on their latest technology 1/2" impact wrench. Usually tool technology is created to benefit from their latest technology batteries..
As mainly a dewalt guy, my experience is that 5ah xr and flexvolt-batteries are the most durable and dependable batteries. I've had several 5 ah powerstack who all seem to perform poorly in humid and rainy environments. Mind you I work in snow and rain with my tools
i saw another teardown video of the 8ah PP, its actually pretty simple lol you'd think you were looking at a plain jane 5ah XR. very little to go wrong i guess, the PS packs are all more sophisticated and fickle
Glad I picked up a couple Forge 8.0 and Powerpack 8.0's on sale this past season when I could. Huge power increases on newer tools, and they charge quick too.
im not a batteries engineer but i suspect the biggest difference in tabless batteries would be energy density and a flatter ESR/wear curve, having the load on the cell be distributed along the whole surface of the chemicals inside should help a lot with the ESR degradation on high power cells. tbh tabless sounds like an interesting tecnology for nimh cells since those are a technology that has always suffered from a relatively high esr compared to cadmium or lithium, making a tabless nimh cell should help a lot with power output and charge speed too.
I’d be interested to see some testing of batteries in colder temps, or some lifespan testing if possible, although that would take a LONG time. Would be helpful for those of us that keep batteries in our truck most of the year.
Not sure if you guys take requests for videos but Kobalt recently dropped 3 new stubby impacts with claims of 250 fastening and 275 loosening for $99. Haven't seen too much talk about it but I'd love to see a video of it being tested with different batteries and compared to other compact impact wrenches on the market.
I have to say I have five year old m-18 batteries and some of the clumsiest helpers, apprentices, and bosses in the world working with me and barrowing my batteries all the time. I am a plumber from Houston, Tx. They go through tunnels, fall off of ladders, get ran over by excavators, left in the rain, thrive in the mud and they have never come apart like yours do. I’ll send you picture if you want them but I’m wondering what the difference is. The main thing they are running more often than not is a saw-zall. So they get shaken up quite a bit. And I drill thousands of holes with my rotary hammer.
I’m rebuilding my Milwaukee v28 battery packs right now I’m using A123/26650 cells which can handle up to 50A continuous draw per cell and 120A max pulse discharge. The 8 cell pack should be one of the nastiest battery packs I’ve ever seen. It will definitely be interesting to see how the tools perform they were very strong when new but the original batteries in these packs were not great for longevity and was new tech at the time.
Another great video! You guys should REALLY start including the area under the curve to generate bar graphs to compare batteries. Curve shape is just too ambiguous! Back in the day people would just print the curve, cut out the curve and weigh it on a sensitive balance, needn't do that, use a program but dont toss good DATA!
Fantastic video! I think a build guide for some DIY options would be great for a lot of people, since the power tool batteries are extremely expensive compared to the actual part cost of the battery.
As a Makita XGT user, the BL4040F released in early 2024 and we STILL can’t buy the damn thing in the US. Fucking ridiculous to be honest. I hate that Makita does that, but their 40V tools are wonderful. Nice video!
at this pace they might beat Bosch to a North American release, though. Their tabless ProCORE 18V+ batteries (not featured here) were released in Europe over 6 months ago, but Bosch doesn't even have a planned release in North America
Awesome tests! Thanks a lot. Just a sidenote. For a DIY person as myself, it would make my life a lot easier, if the brands just named the battery with "a number". E.g. battery "version 5" is better than last years battery "version 4". I mean unless they deliberate are trying to confuse me, when looking for new batteries 😂 but it could just be me. 🤷♂️
It'd be really neat to test out Dewalt batteries using their rotary buffer/polisher DCM849B. I use it daily working on gelcoat. I've never used or seen a tool so power hungry. It wants ALL the watts! Using any battery under 6AH (besides the 5ah powerstack), the tool almost becomes useless. There's such an insane voltage drop under load! I think it'd be great at comparing batteries. Just a thought. Thanks for the great videos.
And here I was hoping that they finally stopped welding the cells together and made them replaceable instead. Like in kids toys or remotes where you just swap them out and each is spring loaded instead of welded in. Although I guess the current that comes out of these cells might be a problem for the spring loading. But I'll keep dreaming about non-welded cells, just because.
Would’ve like to see how a Milwaukee 2904 drill does with tabless. I know it’s thirsty and tool show did a test where the tabless batteries made a big difference, but I want to see big number
Tabless cells are putting up some impressive numbers for sure. The pouch cells were some of the first with it, and that's one reason the Beast pack did well aslo. The Bosch is confusing. They use copper strips, which are way better and surely much more expensive, but they look so thin! I may be missing something...
@Slicerwizard Yes, TTC pinned that in the comments as an update. I commented there also. I was only referring to the copper strips and how thin they looked and thought that was odd.
Obviously we'd love to see the Ryobi 4Ah Edge on an impact vs the old 4Ah or the 3 Ah. While the performance values that you can test are important, the hidden benefit is hopefully more years and cycles of service life in a heavy use environment.
Great stuff I wasn’t aware of the tab vs tabless battery tech. That new dcf961 is pretty dope I’m hoping to see you get the new Matco mcl2012 it’s been updated and rated for 1800 now up from 1600 I’d like to see if it stacks up or if I should sell it and get that new Dewalt
Wow. Impressive. I knew my gen-1 mid torque from Milwaukee sounded louder or "screaming) like you said, That's with my new 8 ah forge. Thanks for putting the icing on the cake for me
Don't know if word has got to you guys yet; the Makita 40v 1inch impact is out, looks like online in a New Zealand store, and Vietnam, and at least two videos I've seen as well
**UPDATE** We ordered the correct Bosch part number, but what was sent to us looks to likely not be the tabless model / we don't get tabless in the US. We're comparing Core to ProCore and there should be a + symbol on the outside for ProCore+. In contact with the retailer, unsure if it was just a mistake or simply what we get in the US for not having Bosch Tabless here yet.
If you do a New test with the correct Bosch. Could you do a use charge use charge back to back test? If they stay cooler you should be able to charge faster due to no time wasted for cooling down before charging.
Ah that is unfortunate :(
@@riba2233 Yeah, big bummer. I let the battery guru guy know as well. Pretty cool that Bosch is using Molicel P42A's, i wonder how many charge cycles they are getting
Thanks god I checked the comments 🤯. Since Bosch was the first at the tabless party I found your test unfortunately plausible. But I watched a lot of other tests with BoschProCore+ (Tabless) and they all showed a big step up in performance. Really looking forward seeing you retesting this with the correct battery.
And since your channel has some leverage in the tool community, I would suggest you edit the video and upload it again to avoid bad marketing and even a lawsuit.🧐
You should definitely edit the video and reupload. The vast majority of people sadly will not read the comments for critical information like this. The video should stick to the facts, and if an edit is required, so it should be.
The Bosch 8Ah Procore(1600A016GK )is the regular pack with normal cells and only costs 120€ in Germany. They have a tabless Pack called Procore+ 8Ah (1600A02X00) which costs about 180€..
The 8 AH Profactor seems to be what we call the normal Procore over here in germany.
correct, just different branding.
It's too bad we can't get the Pro Core 18V+ in North America yet
@@engineer_alv Agreed, the retailer said they can't order Tabless so seems like we are just SOL for now
@@TorqueTestChannel please test some more bosch impact tools the last one was a long time ago
Like how you call moose, elch and we call elk elk and moose moose🙃
That's the regular Bosch 8ah not the new tabless...
As a Ryobi guy, it's rare to get a W on this channel. What's ironic is the shear amount of Ryobi tools that don't care what battery you use. The lights, radio, fan, multi tool, caulk gun, etc are just as good on an old 1.5aH black as a fancy boy. Recently bought the 6aH and 8aH for my vacuum. Might have to get me an edge and see what's what
You can even run most tools (for a brief amount of time, at least) on the old blue NiCd 18v batteries.
Because all those tools don't require higher amounts of power n don't drain batts quickly. But for the ones that do, those small batts are more of a hassle than their worth.
I'll wanna grab an edge battery just to see if it'll make some of their tools more powerful, like their hp hammer drill.. if it could add a nice boost in power, it would make it more of an actual pro grade level tool. Maybe
Im gonna pick one up to see if it makes a difference in my 18V brushless mower
I didn’t know there were Ryobi guys! 😂
@@Krunch2020Let me guess, you drive a lifted pickup and run a 357 magnum to compliment your Milwaukee tools? 🤦♂️
As always you don't disappoint. I often hear other channels reference your channel and even put links to your videos and in a good way. LOL keep up the great work.
Love to see Ryobi in the mix and in your videos!
DeWalt needs a 12ah tabless. Bauer needs to get with the program, too. And while we're at it, I also need a 12ah tabless battery for my iPhone.
Many years ago my main phone was an Oukitel K10000, 10ah, it lasted a week between charges, it was so good. Even if I used it really heavily, I still wasn't able to kill it in less than five days.
Why bauer? Is it because you're assuming it will be similar to ryobi?
HFT is usually a fast follower in the market, if these show good sales and easy manufacturing, i am sure they will make their own brands
Hobo freight will release tabless batteries for Hercules before the others. Since it's their 'pro' tier.
True. R, M, and D set the bar pretty high with their tabless packs. Hopefully Bauer has the integrity to step up their game (matching what will likely be the added cost) instead of just capitalizing on the marketing opportunity.
We need a pliers wrench test on pushy.
Seems a bit pointless as you will never exceed the amount of force that can be applied by human hands... But ok. Whatever.
@@SkyForgeVideos that’s one of the key design elements I like about them is I can literally wire the jaws shut and the stand on it 😂
@@StihlRunnin
Nah that's dumb.
Get a breaker bar or an impact wrench.
Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should, or that it's a good idea.
Work smarter not harder.
@Toolguy1 pliers wrench is a very mediocre tool. I own the 12”, 10” and 7-1/4”. I literally can’t think of a use case that I wouldn’t rather use a high quality adjustable wrench or a pair of Cobras. The head on the pliers wrench is absolutely massive to actually fit anywhere tight. That’s just me and my opinion, but I respect it if you like them. What do you use them for? For work I carry 10” Cobras and Twin Grips. I’m convinced Cobras are one of the best hand tools ever invented and I don’t say that lightly.
@@SkyForgeVideos _"Seems a bit pointless as you will never exceed the amount of force that can be applied by human hands."_
Because no-one in the history of the world has ever used a cheater bar on a hand tool, right?
The Ridgid was impressive to me. Smaller than the 3amp Octane and the new 4 still had a large board, same size batteries and a heat sink but was still smaller. For it's size to power it's a winner. Hopefully TTI will let Ridgid have a 6,8,or a 12map version here soon 🤞🏻
I have seen the 8ah tabless in 2 different Home Depots.
and they offer lifetime warranty on the batteries and tools
@@anthonygarrison3120 Lifetime Service Agreement, not a warranty for legal purposes.
Really great to see! I’m a gang green guy, and just googled to see that Metabo HPT is also releasing a tabless battery. The 391991M T-PWR battery is listed on their site, but not yet in stock at either the jungle site or ACME tools. There is a matching UC36YSL2 faster charger as well, but would most love to know whether the green tools can benefit as much as Ryobi’s offerings.
I think the channel definitely deserves over a million subs. Always appreciate your testing on the tools I use 🙏🏼
We were putting up some trusses the other day in Michigan during the cold plunge and The forge is surprisingly resilient to draining can use it in a circ saw for days between charges.. we were mostly cuttimg 2x4 but did have to rip down couple sheets of osb ...the forge didnt skip a beat when it did die all i had was a xc 5.0 the thing wouldnt even finish a cut without cutting off
Was the xc5.0 old, or were they similar to age? I'm assuming they were the same size.
The forge is fairly new the xc is probably a year old.. also i got the forge with the saw so its my only "high" draw tool only really run drill impact driver and oscillating tool ...
If the saw in question is the new blade right that comes with Milwaukee's thick kerf blade, (2834-20, I believe) Milwaukee stated that the saw was designed to be run with the Forge batteries, in part due to the tweaks made to get the RPMs up to their ungodly spec. On that battery, the saw runs strong.
I have 3 DeWalt PowerPacks. Got them with the deals over the holidays and paid no more than $71/ea. with the hacks.
what hacks?
Got the 1007 drill with the 2 power packs, loving it
Hack = Buy a tool, get a free battery. Then you return the tool for a partial prorated refund and keep the battery. Home Depot does it all the time. Lowe’s just started doing it. Previously, you could only return both to Lowe’s for a full refund.
I have the large 1330 Bosch drill and I couldn’t imagine giving it even more power than what it already has. It’s a torque monster.
I like that tool companies are learning that not all of the people buying these things are full fledged mechanic shops. It’s nice to see companies like Walmart and now Ryobi getting the funding and R&D for cheaper offerings
Lets be honest, a lot of these tools are in the hands of weekend warriors that don't push them anywhere near what they're capable of. I think Team Red and Team Yellow in particular know a very large chunk of their revenue comes from DIYers strolling through Home Depot.
To be fair both of the brands are made by tti who makes / own milwaukee, ryobi and rigid
No I think they’re realizing that there are fewer “full fledged mechanic shops” using cordless tools than what they thought would happen. Most of us are not only heavily invested in pneumatic, they’re just lighter & more agile. Plus I still have yet to see a cordless impact wrench have the reverse torque to cause me to buy one. I will never deny the portability convenience of cordless but in my shop, air is king. It probably always will be.
Thanks for testing work-load runtime. This gets complicated as it depends upon the specific tool current demand and voltage cut-out, but this is the kind of comparison we need rather than just amp-hours. Even watt-hours fails to tell us how long the tool will actually provide useful work under load because higher currents always result in less total work, but these tabless cells do appear to have substantially less voltage drop and that's what progress in this arena looks like.
The Bosch ProCore you testet is not the tabless pack from Bosch.
Its more less the Profactor you get here in Germany.
The ProCore+ is the pack with the tabless-cells. Its Like with Metabos LIHD (non-Tabless) LIHDX (tabless).
Thats how it is in Germany, maybe its diffrent in the US.
Ya it looks exactly like my 8ah's which sport 21700 from samsung i think
@@andyOsalekSamsung INR21700-40T cells
That Bosch battery you tested is not the The Tabless Pro Core Battery. That is the regular Pro Core Battery, what you all call Profactor in North America. The Tabless ProCore Battery is the ProCore+ 8AH 18V battery. Difference. Please Order those from Europe and then test it? Much respect for your work always sir. Love your videos a lot.
I bought one of the 9AH Flex Volts years ago and realized how premium it was. I made sure to buy another one before the battery disappeared? There has been no battery to top It, performance to weight; Until the 8AH Power Pack. Smaller, lighter and slightly stronger. The 9AH hour FlexVolt was just ahead of its time... 🤘👍
I have been searching internet through for the difference between Milwaukee 6ah pouch vs 8ah tabless and here we go. TTC delivered! Cheers!
Thanks for this video, LOVE the teardowns and seeing how each company handles connecting the cells, waterproofing, bus bars, etc.
oh hey there you are Mooch =X hope you are well!
I bought a bunch of Dewalt 8ah tabless, and they are performing very well. I'm working on a near-vertical slop cleaning up brush with the 8-inch and 12-inch Dewalt saws.
Did you buy the right Bosch battery? In the UK the Bosch tabless batteries are called ProCore+. ProCore (without the plus) are the old 21700 packs.
I would say it looks like the wrong battery indeed.
Yep i said the same thing, his battery looks like the standard one with regular cells not tabless
Here in the US our regular batteries, even the ones still at LOWES simply say Core. But you may be correct, we ordered what Bosch shows as the right model number for tabless, but we have no "+" symbol on ours. So talking to the retailer we bought it from, it could very well not be tabless or we just dont get anything similar in the US.
@@TorqueTestChannelthanks for confirming. If it’s indeed not tabless, please can you make a correction/disclaimer in the video / description?
@@cashkenazipiano Added a pinned and revised the chapters as well to denote
Can you guys do a test on all of the cordless vacuum offerings that these companies are coming out with?
Agreed
Project Farm did a test on some cordless vacuums. Probably not in a same format and scope you would see here. But very informative
I’ll hold out for the hyper tough tabless battery 😅
Interesting take! I’m sure they are taking notes. They’ve been listening to consumers thus far🤞
same here, poor guys like me depend on decent quality and priced tools. harbor freight and hyper tough i have to have as a go to, can't and won't spend more dough on expensive tools,, unless,,,, the actual situation needs it.
@@jimjam1719yup fellow poor guy here too brotha
@ i gotcha fellow brotha, we gotta make our dolla holla, so to speak. hi five.
One important thing that seems to not get talked about or hidden by some manufacturers is cell balancing. Apparently, DeWalt batteries don't balance their cells, according to Tool Scientist?
In the DeWalt system, the charger balances the cells I think? The batteries are completely dumb, no electronics inside.
@@connerlabs The toolscientist video (#9) found no balancing circuitry in several chargers, not even in a model from 2023. It looks like these chargers access the individual cells or parallel packs only to check for single cell/pack over- and undervoltage. He tested this by "unbalancing" a pack and monitoring the charge current to individual cells/packs. There was unfortunately no balancing current to measure. Idk, I find this very weird for an expensive product. Although, knowing how easy and cheap balancing can be realised, even the crappiest no-name product should have battery balancing these days. "Should" as in "balancing should be mandated by law".
@@michaelseitz8938 cell balancing wastes energy, cells should not be balanced, simply monitor upper and lower limits with a shut down, when that shut down isnt acceptable to the user recycle the battery
@@IanRobinson-oh4yj The energy waste on balancing is peanuts compared to the energy that is wasted on a replacement battery pack after an unnecessarily early battery death.
You’ve been done on the Bosch pack. They’ve sold you a standard EU procore pack. The tabless are labelled procore+
Interresting results. I see the issue with the Procore 18V + was already mentioned. The standard battery with 21700 cells we get over here in europe is the regular Procore battery. The Procore 18V + is the one with tabless cells... however when Procore was announced, Bosch made statements of how they are able to actually deliver all the beans from the cells to the machines. They clamed they would use very thick wires to connect the cells in order to handle all the AMPS. I'm shocked you found a thin foil welded in DIY style to the cells
Purchased the Ridgid 8 ah Max Output EXP 2 pack for 160 OTD with the hopes of getting more runtime when needed vs swapping out Octane 3.0 Ah batteries. This video is just what I was looking for. Did not disappoint.
Thanks for the metric conversions on the bottom, guys. Great work!
Amazing presentation, y'all! The channel has come a long way in a short time. Battery nerds unite!!
Another EXCELLENT video guys! Thanks for the effort and the time it took! Love your channel.😃👍
Impressive stuff from the Green Team. I would love to see more Ryobi tools benchmarked with the new tabless battery
your animation on the graph is very unique and really love this! Nice work! Donèt be fooled by conformal coating thickness. These days you can get some Parylene coating which is super thin with great uniformity.
This is an awesome video. I really would like a better comparison of this battery design against all the other Milwaukee batteries though. Honestly, I have way too much invested in the M18 product line to change at this point, so I don't care about any other brands even though it looks like they are on top of their game. The only thing I really care about is whether it's worth it for me to buy some of these batteries for my saws and grinders. It makes a really big difference, especially when you're using a metal cutting saw. Because when the voltage drops the saw cannot keep running and it will stall mid cut and when it does the carbide on the saw blade tends to break and that gets expensive really fast. I found that the 9.0 and 8.0 batteries that I have are the worst at only cutting well when they are at full charge and do not perform as well as the 5.0 XP batteries at just maintaining the grunt to just keep cutting on the metal saw. I don't think it matters so much on wood because it doesn't tear up the saw blade when it stops. This sort of data was actually visible somewhat when you were comparing the Ryobi to the Milwaukee on the grinder test, but you didn't include very much data on that on the Milwaukee batteries. I really wish you would show us a comparison like that on all of the Milwaukee batteries. Honestly, for almost every other tool that I use I don't notice much of a difference on which battery I use. But the grinder, saw, router, and the leaf blower absolutely need to have the right battery for the job. The thing that I find interesting is that The 8.0 and 9.0 batteries I have perform very well on the leaf blower but on a metal cutting circular saw especially they do not perform as well as the 5.0 XP.
Would've loved to see the Edge battery tested in the PBLIW01 knowing how well it responds to just bigger Ah batteries. I realize 4Ah is less than ideal for a 1/2" high torque, but comparing Ah apples to Ah apples lets you extrapolate how much improvement an like sized Edge battery has over just an HP or High Performance.
The faster charge time of the forge batteries is a huge bonus
Provided they don't have balancing issues like the old packs.
You should do a follow up video with a link at the end of this on just to explain the Bosch confusion
Excellent video anyway. Best testing content out there ❤
Quickly becoming my favorite channel
My understanding of why Bosch battery cells are unjacketed, is that it improves heat dissipation. Helping to keep the overall pack cooler. All least that's what Bosch have always told me the reason is.
My own experience with them, does lead me the believe they might be right.
Bosch have some good videos on their Pro Core packs. You are right, it's mainly about heat dissipation, the cells are even put into the enclosure while it is still hot from the mould. This minimises any airgaps, if you have air gaps in the packs they can end up acting like a thermos trapping the heat inside. They also have a small wire inside each sleave so the battery can read the voltage of each individual cell. Also as with other Bosch batteries that white piece inline with the copper bus bar is a standard replaceable fuse. Other brands have a fused PCB track which will prevent a fire but the battery must be binned after that, on the Bosch you just replace the fuse and it's back in action. The Pro Core packs are only 3mm wider than the standard one which means they can fit in all the existing tools vs Makita who don't want to make packs with 21700 cells for tool compatibility.
I use the real Procore + tabless and it's a beast, the one show in the clip is NOT tabless cells from bosh
Thank you for explaining tabless batteries in an easy to understand way! It seems like most places that talk about them want you to know they are smart.
Damn, I wasn't thinking about buying the Ryobi Edge, but now that I've seen it really work, I'm considering it...
Why no teardown of the dewalt battery?
Was looking for this comment. I was hoping for it as well.
You have the same BOSCH Battery. Tabless Cell baterry name is PROCORE 18V+
Most informative and channel on TH-cam! Thanks for going into so much detail. Would like to see the new Northern Tool line Klutch tested. They are new and have a lot of bold claims. Saw them in store but could not find info on their website but a small ad.
Aw man wish you would have tested the 12ah Forge. I just picked one up for that same impact and would have loved to see the numbers vs 8 HO and 5XC.
I like that you used canadian oz. In your weights.
Would have liked to see the performance increase on the pbliw01b or even the p262
Bought the wrong Bosch battery. Procore + is the tabless version. Completely thrashing Bosch on wrong grounds. Usually there is Samsung 40T in the 8.0ah pack. Samsung 30t in the 5.5ah Procore pack. Test the Procore+ battery and come back to us with the results.
This one has tabbed molicel cells but they used Samsung before.
@Torque Test Channel, Home Depot has the Dewalt DCD1007 Kit plus a free 8ah battery for $299. Excellent deal for 2 batteries and a drill.
24:23 “…their now number one best battery and it’s not even 60-volt, that’s pretty cool.”
Why is that cool? I wish it worked with the 60-volt stuff as well. I would start using it on my FlexVolt trimmer, blower, etc. I currently use the 9AH battery, but the lighter weight is always nice.
Great review as usual!
Yay! Were writing on the metal plate again🙌🏻
I think it would be interesting to add testing with a "perfect battery" through a power supply that has minimal voltage sag and very low internal resistance. Would provide some insight into what is a limitation of the energy source vs the tool itself.
Because of this channel I bought the 1/4" Walmart Hyper Tough for $45 and wow it's amazing.
Did you buy the cordless ratchet?
Love my Forge 12.0's. They barely get lukewarm, no matter how much you abuse the tool you're running. Thanks for the latest episode! Makes visually seeing the differences on the meters much easier for an apples to apples comparison.
I'd be interested in seeing the Ridgid running the tables EXP battery on their latest technology 1/2" impact wrench. Usually tool technology is created to benefit from their latest technology batteries..
Even their latest is we bought in April 2022, either model multiple years before a tabless pack was created
@TorqueTestChannel don't get me wrong..I've got that earlier beast impact...but was wondering if the newer model would benefit more...👍good to know
Yeah, I'm a Ryobi guy and have a lot of tools and I've noticed a big difference with the new edge battery on almost every one I have
As mainly a dewalt guy, my experience is that 5ah xr and flexvolt-batteries are the most durable and dependable batteries. I've had several 5 ah powerstack who all seem to perform poorly in humid and rainy environments. Mind you I work in snow and rain with my tools
i saw another teardown video of the 8ah PP, its actually pretty simple lol you'd think you were looking at a plain jane 5ah XR. very little to go wrong i guess, the PS packs are all more sophisticated and fickle
I have the Dewalt 8ah powerpack. Definitely a nice battery especially for the leaf blower
To me the 9 ah flexvolt both watching your videos and in my own experience seems to be among the very best batteries that exists
Glad I picked up a couple Forge 8.0 and Powerpack 8.0's on sale this past season when I could. Huge power increases on newer tools, and they charge quick too.
Awesome video! Love watching your videos. Another brand that I’d love to see in the mix is Metabo hpt with their new 8amp tabless battery!
The amount of data is impressive. Thank you. 👍🖖
im not a batteries engineer but i suspect the biggest difference in tabless batteries would be energy density and a flatter ESR/wear curve, having the load on the cell be distributed along the whole surface of the chemicals inside should help a lot with the ESR degradation on high power cells. tbh tabless sounds like an interesting tecnology for nimh cells since those are a technology that has always suffered from a relatively high esr compared to cadmium or lithium, making a tabless nimh cell should help a lot with power output and charge speed too.
Love this channel! good work guys
I’d be interested to see some testing of batteries in colder temps, or some lifespan testing if possible, although that would take a LONG time. Would be helpful for those of us that keep batteries in our truck most of the year.
Would a tabless battery help the 12v red tools with run time and performance?
Interesting video, even though battery videos make my head hurt and eyes gloss over😛 Thanks for the info!
I would love to see you review O'Reilly tools, both powered and hand tools.
Not sure if you guys take requests for videos but Kobalt recently dropped 3 new stubby impacts with claims of 250 fastening and 275 loosening for $99. Haven't seen too much talk about it but I'd love to see a video of it being tested with different batteries and compared to other compact impact wrenches on the market.
I have to say I have five year old m-18 batteries and some of the clumsiest helpers, apprentices, and bosses in the world working with me and barrowing my batteries all the time. I am a plumber from Houston, Tx. They go through tunnels, fall off of ladders, get ran over by excavators, left in the rain, thrive in the mud and they have never come apart like yours do. I’ll send you picture if you want them but I’m wondering what the difference is. The main thing they are running more often than not is a saw-zall. So they get shaken up quite a bit. And I drill thousands of holes with my rotary hammer.
Hey y’all should test some hyper tough ratchets I bought one and I absolutely love it but I’d love to see how it compares to the rest
I’m rebuilding my Milwaukee v28 battery packs right now I’m using A123/26650 cells which can handle up to 50A continuous draw per cell and 120A max pulse discharge. The 8 cell pack should be one of the nastiest battery packs I’ve ever seen. It will definitely be interesting to see how the tools perform they were very strong when new but the original batteries in these packs were not great for longevity and was new tech at the time.
i like your channel because of your no bullshit explainations.
Another great video! You guys should REALLY start including the area under the curve to generate bar graphs to compare batteries. Curve shape is just too ambiguous! Back in the day people would just print the curve, cut out the curve and weigh it on a sensitive balance, needn't do that, use a program but dont toss good DATA!
Fantastic video! I think a build guide for some DIY options would be great for a lot of people, since the power tool batteries are extremely expensive compared to the actual part cost of the battery.
The Makita BL4040F has been out for quite some time. I'd love to see you test it as well.
Great video. I wonder how a high vibration tool, like a oscillating saw will effect the new design.
How does the 12ah forge get on with the 1” d-handle or will we see that one day?
About 1575 over the 1532 of a 6Ah, the tools pretty maxed already
I would love to see how Metabo's offering shapes up, particularly in combination with that grinder they have in the top spot.
As a Makita XGT user, the BL4040F released in early 2024 and we STILL can’t buy the damn thing in the US. Fucking ridiculous to be honest. I hate that Makita does that, but their 40V tools are wonderful. Nice video!
It is coming really soon! EDIT- just checked, they are already available.
@@riba2233they have been saying that for over a year
at this pace they might beat Bosch to a North American release, though. Their tabless ProCORE 18V+ batteries (not featured here) were released in Europe over 6 months ago, but Bosch doesn't even have a planned release in North America
@ they did beat them, just checked and they are already available.
Like@riba2233 said, you can already buy them, but they're $259. Yeahhhh no thanks
Awesome tests! Thanks a lot.
Just a sidenote.
For a DIY person as myself, it would make my life a lot easier, if the brands just named the battery with "a number".
E.g. battery "version 5" is better than last years battery "version 4". I mean unless they deliberate are trying to confuse me, when looking for new batteries 😂 but it could just be me. 🤷♂️
I’d love to see a test for hyper tough sockets both impact and chrome
Still use my 5 yr old 4amp ridgids . Bought two 2pk new 4amp last year for $79 each so…… And for Xmas wife got me a dual ridgid charger. 😊
It'd be really neat to test out Dewalt batteries using their rotary buffer/polisher DCM849B. I use it daily working on gelcoat. I've never used or seen a tool so power hungry. It wants ALL the watts! Using any battery under 6AH (besides the 5ah powerstack), the tool almost becomes useless. There's such an insane voltage drop under load! I think it'd be great at comparing batteries. Just a thought. Thanks for the great videos.
And here I was hoping that they finally stopped welding the cells together and made them replaceable instead.
Like in kids toys or remotes where you just swap them out and each is spring loaded instead of welded in.
Although I guess the current that comes out of these cells might be a problem for the spring loading. But I'll keep dreaming about non-welded cells, just because.
Running a leaf blower & heat gun, the forge 12ah IMO, seems to do more work per charge.
does Milwaukee have bag batteries like the Dewalt power stacks also?
The 6Ah FORGE
To me the best feature is the smaller size packs, but having high performance.
Im on the FLEX platform and i can definitely tell the difference in the new cells.
Good video! If you do another test can you also compare metabo? They have also new tabless batteries called LIHDX
Would’ve like to see how a Milwaukee 2904 drill does with tabless. I know it’s thirsty and tool show did a test where the tabless batteries made a big difference, but I want to see big number
Tabless cells are putting up some impressive numbers for sure. The pouch cells were some of the first with it, and that's one reason the Beast pack did well aslo. The Bosch is confusing. They use copper strips, which are way better and surely much more expensive, but they look so thin! I may be missing something...
The Bosch battery is not tabless.
@Slicerwizard
Yes, TTC pinned that in the comments as an update. I commented there also. I was only referring to the copper strips and how thin they looked and thought that was odd.
Obviously we'd love to see the Ryobi 4Ah Edge on an impact vs the old 4Ah or the 3 Ah. While the performance values that you can test are important, the hidden benefit is hopefully more years and cycles of service life in a heavy use environment.
Great stuff I wasn’t aware of the tab vs tabless battery tech. That new dcf961 is pretty dope I’m hoping to see you get the new Matco mcl2012 it’s been updated and rated for 1800 now up from 1600 I’d like to see if it stacks up or if I should sell it and get that new Dewalt
So are these the pouch cell batteries or something newer than those ?
no breakdown of the Dewalt battery?
Wow. Impressive. I knew my gen-1 mid torque from Milwaukee sounded louder or "screaming) like you said,
That's with my new 8 ah forge.
Thanks for putting the icing on the cake for me
Don't know if word has got to you guys yet; the Makita 40v 1inch impact is out, looks like online in a New Zealand store, and Vietnam, and at least two videos I've seen as well
Can you show us the Ryobi battery range including the Edge battery in an impact on a separate video?