With the Powerstack battery, DeWalt have been able to shrink the housing down as everything fits neatly inside, meaning you can pack the equivalent cells into a smaller space.
When you construct a battery pack with cylindrical cells, you’re essentially packing round pegs into a square hole, and some of the space inside the housing is inevitably going to be wasted. That’s all well and good, I hear you say, but what difference does this make to me? To address some of the benefits and hopefully answer any questions you might have, here are the advantages this new design brings to the table. In fact DeWalt have staked a claim to be the first major power tool brand to use pouch cells in tools designed for construction applications. These types of cells have been commonly used in devices like digital cameras and phones for years, but have never seen widespread use in the power tool industry. Powerstack batteries instead use flat, pouch-style cells which are simply stacked on top of each other. If you were to look inside a typical 18v power tool battery, you’d see it was packed with cylindrical cells (closely resembling AA batteries). The name “Powerstack” refers to the unique way the cells are arranged inside the battery pack.
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Many people will be aware that DeWalt already shook up the industry when they unveiled their Flexvolt battery a few years back, enabling existing 18v XR tools to share battery compatibility with a new heavy duty 54v cordless range – well now they’ve unveiled a completely new Powerstack battery for the 18v platform, as well as a batch of new tools which have been designed to take full advantage of it.ĭeWalt recently paid us a visit so that staff and customers could get hands-on with these new products, and now that we’ve had a chance to put the Powerstack range to the test, here’s what we found out: These tools got lots of thorough testing in the Tooled-up car park last Friday PowerStack: What is It?
As cordless tools have become ever more dominant in recent years, battery technology is an area we’re starting to see a lot of innovation in.
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