Simultaneous Multiple Tool Melt Down

My preferred cordless tool line for a long time was Milwaukee.  Used to be Makita 30 years ago but they kind of fell behind.  Day in day out as a contractor I bought Milwaukee cordless.  When one of my drills died, and new brushes didn't revive it, and then I got down to just one good battery I gave up and went cheap.  I used the Harbor Freight Bauer line.   Its not horrible, the tools are cheap, and the bigger batteries are actually decent.  After my dad passed away I found he had gone with DeWalt.  I gave all my Bauer tools to my son and started using my dad's DeWalt stuff.  Well, not in that order.
I also found (with both Bauer and DeWalt) that for some tools the smaller batteries are fine.  I figured they would be fine for everything.  They just wouldn't run as long.  No.  That's not true. Some tools just wouldn't run very well on the smaller batteries that usually come with the "packages."  A couple come to mind. Cordless angle grinder, chainsaw, hedge trimmer... Bauer or DeWalt both kind of bogged out instantly with the small batteries and produced respectably with 4AH or bigger batteries.
I just spent $700(+) dollars on four legit (not Amazon or eBay knock offs) 8ah DeWalt batteries.  I figure after dropping real coin on batteries I'll walk in the shop tomorrow and find melted pools of yellow DeWalt plastic everywhere there used to be a DeWalt cordless tool.
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Bob La Londe
CNC Molds N Stuff
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