Why do people rev up petrol strimmers?

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It's worse when it's only a second, every other second.

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So why not leave it on full revs? Why "rest" it for one second inbetween bits you're cutting?

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Last time I used a chainsaw I forgot to oil it. The chain snapped and flew a considerable distance.

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Why not leave it revved up?

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I use all types on full power continuously. I'm not objecting to the speed they get up to (they need that to cut). I'm objecting that people keep giving them a 1 second "rest" inbetween each little cut.

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Why don't you? Because you saw his reply. Your killfile sux.

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A battery pack is just a pile of several cells. Buy the cells.

I had a petrol leaf blower that lasted for one use. I couldn't start it the second time. On cylinder ffs, useless.

I have an Epson and have had Brother. Both of those have fake cheap cartridges available, especially Brother. And I got a continuous ink system for my Epson now, I just fill 100ml tanks every so often. £1 for 100ml is a lot less than £2 for a 15ml fake cartridge.

Only Iphones don't let you just take them apart.

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At my work, the janitors bought a DeWalt (you'd think quality?) cordless drill, top of the range. One of the batteries wouldn't work. I opened it and soldered a wire back on that hadn't been done properly and had fallen off. I guess that's how fires start in transporting batteries.

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But they all know someone who does.

It's actually a very easy task. Usually just an array of cells in honeycomb formation with tabs, soldered to each other.

Not in my experience. I've created a battery for a third of the price. And I know the cells in it are good ones and not Chinese shit.

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Solder works fine.

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Which makes them brick themselves and you lose everything.

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I usually have to sand them first, then the solder gets a grip.

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It came from the same website you used.

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It still shows Apple are a bunch of f****ng criminals.

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Li Ion is a pretty standard thing.

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Easy for a device to tell how full one is. They use the same chemistry.

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Since they use the same chemistry, it should be able to tell. How is it reacting to charge/discharge compared to when it was installed (and assumed new) for example.

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You can see it getting weaker with age and work out when it will die. You can do that yourself, a computer would find it easy.

It's the storage capacity that decreases with time.

It doesn't really matter. You watch how it weakens over time from when you got it.

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They are in my experience. They just wear out faster, and start with a lower capacity.

Why do yourself what can be done for you. The whole point of a computer is to assist you.