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your mileage may vary, and I would expect much more holes with a shaver blade, but I prefer to use the KDrill so this is how I tested it and how each drill handled it.I might pick up a 9ah battery for the DeWalt just so I can get a good fair baseline comparison.My thoughts on this. The Ridgid Octane is going to be plenty of drill for the vast majority of people and the cutout issue will be a non-factor. However, I don't think it can be ignored either.
Have to say I'm surprised to see the difference between the Nils and KDrill. I got 150 holes with my Nils. Shocked you only got 40 with your KDrill. I knew the Kdrill chipper blade would be less, but am shocked at the difference.
I don't think you would get 150 holes on the same day. In his last test I think the shaver blade cut close to 50% more holes against the kdrill.
Yeah i purchased one for my friend and he just texted me it's cutting out like it's the overload protection, he's b***hing ( i new it was to good to be true) you know what they say no good deed goes unpunished like its all my fault
swap it out or exchange or get a refund. no need for him to complain to you. only one person has bothered to swap it out and he is good to go now.sounds like it's the poor way the kdrill cuts is affecting the overload protection. the load is not consistent and the way the motor talks to the battery trying to figure out the load while people are raising their bits to try to clear out the shavings is messing with it. those who keep a constant or somewhat constant load aren't having so much trouble.tell him to keep the bit under the same load the entire cut and see what happens instead of stooping the cut to raise the cutting head to spin off the shavings. pretty sure this is the problem.QUOT:This means, under heavy loads, the tool talks to the battery to determine when to draw maximum power to the motor, allowing the tool to increase performance and finish the task. END QUOThttps://www.homedepot.com/p/RIDGID-18-Volt-OCTANE-Cordless-Brushless-1-2-in-Hammer-Drill-Driver-Tool-Only-R8611506B/304304102
Well said 3300. I was thinking of a tactful was of addressing this. Ive had several people (25 or so) message me about the Octane. Both through here, FB and YouTube. 75% have been with the K-Drill, 25% strikemaster/eskimo shaver blade style augers. Once my Nils starts cutting it melts through the ice. Seems like the KDrill folks aren't as smooth. I wish I had someone close by who had the KDrill, id love to see how it ran on my Octane. Ive heard nothing about good things with the Octane/Nils crowd. Not to offend anyone, but think the Octane excels with the Nils.
Do you have yours on the Clam Plate? Mine was doing the same thing and I kept moving the adjusting the trigger on the plate and now it doesn't seem to do it anymore.
but were are talking about a video that stress's these systems to see what happens and we are talking about the results of it. you don't cut as many holes as it can for kicks in a real world to see what happens. you cut what you need to cut.when i said variable i said full on and full off. not some where in between.
nate the milwaukee obviously does not have this intelligent circuit the ridgid has so it seems to ignore the load differences. as far as i know this is ridgids first go with it.there are other tools that have this circuit it in now including milwaukee newest right angle drill or seems to have it because it stops if the load is too much instead of breaking wrists and not using a clutch system like drill modes do not use.the folks having poor results with their lazers would more than likely have even worse resits with the kdrill.yes there are a few other large bit issues and swapping the drill out for another one is the resolve for them. i have no idea why they are not staying consistent between drills. it seems to be tolerances in their circuits are different for some reason.the dewalt also isn't using this newest protection/load draw circuit nor are any of my older ridgid tools including 4 other ridgid drills.if it is a problem, ridgid will have to change the circuit to remedy the situation or adjust it if it's adjustable. it acts like it is adjustable with the different results folks are getting, but who knows for sure other than ridgid.
What makes you say that? What are people messaging you about? The drill cutting out? Or they are telling you the octane isn't smooth with the kdrill?
You said kdrill was the problem when clearly it isn't.
it certainly seems to be with the ridgid. isn't that the discussion as of late?
What I'm getting at here is a drill that cannot handle dynamic load is poorly engineered. The majority of these drills being sold will never see an ice auger. In the real world someone will use the drill where the load will go from full to nothing back to full. Like drilling through steel tubing. I also just came across a couple test videos on youtube putting the ridgid against a milwaukee. The ridgid was cutting out on overload turning a spade bit. The milwaukee did too until they switched to the 6ah high output battery. Then the Milwaukee had no cutout issues. That said If the octane can only reliably operate with a nils auger then that counts me and many others out.
A friend of mine bought a rigid drill from home depot and used it with a 7 in lazer and it was cutting out after 3 holes ,and after 15 holes later thru out the day noticed the drill had a lot backlash in the gearing. Went out the next day and drilled 4 holes and something snapped in the drill and locked up. He took it back to store and returned it and got the dewalt 996 with 2 5amphr. Batts and charger. He used that all day with the same augers no problems, plus the side handle is better design than the rigid and the Milwaukee, No snapping handles off with the dewalt. I run my dewalt 996 with the same auger as him and have not had any problems at all. Sounds like the rigid has has some issues with torque and battery overload protection
sounds like it's the poor way the kdrill cuts is affecting the overload protection.
a drill that cannot handle dynamic load is poorly engineered.
I was referring to people messaging me about the octane cutting out with KDrill, Lazer and Eskimo type Auger. A good majority of them folks didn’t have the drill set up correctly either. Example trying to run on setting 2. My set up hasn’t cut out once, and I’ve had more KDrill/ Lazer users say they love the Octane vs not.
yes mine is on a clam plate and the trigger mech is hitting it dead on.my light comes on so I know the trigger is pushed in.mines not overloading I wouldnt think because sometimes it does it before I even cut a single hole..it really not that bad and its a second out of the day but don't know if it will get worse.starting out with a octane that had a tight chuck with no left/right play and now I can turn it by hand over a inch either way is more concerning.i have 90 days to run it and lsa so time will tell.im running a mora 8".the drill rips lots of holes easy most times and I have done 10 in a row then put it down for a few hrs then it may work or shutoff sporadic.never know when its going to happen.
So 75 percent of people who have messaged you about the octane cutting out were using a kdrill? Hope your Nils keeps working out for ya, I loved mine for half a season, until it didn't want to cut anymore and I had to spend money and time sending it out to get sharpened (which I didn't, just went back to the trusty mora I had used my whole life previously, Nils is still just sittin in the shed). When they are sharp it is the smoothest cutting bit I've tried for sure.
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