Thread: carvex pcb 420 cordless

I only just recently purchased one - although the PSBC 420 (D handle). Have only done some tests and am very impressed with quality of the cuts. There is a video on the tube where the Festool guy in the USA states that one will cut about 26m of 32mm timber (probably soft wood).
Les

With the brushless technology everyone that has given us feedback so far has all been positive saying its the closest to a power jigsaw they have found. One of our customers was saying he gets 3-5 kitchen installs a day with it. Didn't specify if it was with the 2 batteries or 1

Thanks for the feed back i just watched the video.

Wow who install 3 to 5 kitchen in a day the must be small kitchens or be superman. Some kitchens you need to cut a lot and some you dont.

Thanks for the feed back kiro

Regards bryan

Why does it say that the battery capacity for the cordless jigsaw is only 2.6AH? 15v or 14.4v

will my 3ah 14.4V battery work on it???????????? there is so much confusing information out there


Cheers

Bryan

Originally Posted by Bryan1982

Why does it say that the battery capacity for the cordless jigsaw is only 2.6AH? 15v or 14.4v

will my 3ah 14.4V battery work on it???????????? there is so much confusing information out there


Cheers

Bryan

Hi Bryan,

The CARVEX jigsaws work with both 15v and 18v batteries. But 15v is only a nominal value. It is in fact 14.4v because these batteries are made up of a number of 1.2v cells. So each a "15v" battery is really 12 x 1.2v cells. An 18v battery is actually 18v, made up of 15 x 1.2v cells. And for completeness, the "12v" batteries used by some of the Festool drills, are really 10.8v made up of 9 x 1.2v cells.

Back to the CARVEX, it will fun on any all three "12v", "15v", and 18v batteries. Some of the kits ship with 15v batteries because 15v is the most commonly used battery/drill voltage in the Festool range. But adding 18v battery gives a small amount of extra power according to my own limited testing.

There's no reason to hesitate on the 420 cordless. The batteries last well, they give plenty of run time and they also charge quickly.

Don't expect to put the cordless in one of the CMS modules - you should really use a mains version for that.

FWIW the Protool 18V's are compatible too.

Originally Posted by Bryan1982

Thanks for the feed back i just watched the video.

Wow who install 3 to 5 kitchen in a day the must be small kitchens or be superman. Some kitchens you need to cut a lot and some you dont.

Thanks for the feed back kiro

Regards bryan

These are the guys doing unit work were everything is delivered & they just go there & instal, they work in teams of 2-3