Negative noticed in Makita's me the way too flat angle of the LED lighting (light beam is covered by the chuck and screw remains in the shade), and far too lax torque setting, which is sufficient almost for little screw - Power for large screws would be enough available. Point deduction can I help it - given the other qualities of the machine and accessories - be no.
I will here give some tips on how you can increase the life of the machine and longer has tuned joy:
1. The engine brake causes strong sparking the engine. So get into the habit of letting go of the gas transmitter slowly.
2. If the device is not in use a long time, you should charge the batteries and then stored in the vegetable drawer of the refrigerator.
3. It is not good, a Li-Ion battery to fully discharge (whoever wants to know exactly sees in Wikipedia in "lithium-ion battery" to see also para. 4). Better always recharge before the battery runs out.
4. When charging is a balancer, preventing the overload (that is, the voltages of the battery cells are individually monitored) - as the at LiIon batteries should be.
In the machine, a protection circuit is designed to prevent the very harmful for LiIon cells discharge. The problem: This circuit monitors not the individual, but only the sum of the voltages. I have a voltage of about 8V measured, under which the machine is turned off, which means approximately 2.7V per cell. Nevertheless, the weakest cell can already be damaged if it has the adverse limit of 2.5V already reached, while the other two cells are still fit and have higher voltages.
It is therefore advisable not to provoke with longer working a shutdown of the machine, but in time to replace the battery. And if the machine times but off: battery immediately out and load.
By the way, I think the threshold of 8V to be too low. Makita has chosen this limit in favor of battery time, but at the expense of customers. Select other electronics manufacturers 3V per cell, in this case, the 9V would have been.
The included LED flashlight has the same protection circuit.
This turns the flashlight A WORK LIGHT:
A Photo Mini Tripod Man gets (z. B. the Hama Mini Tripod) and screwed it with "emphasis" in the rectangular recess on the clip of the lamp, which happens to fit the width exactly the tripod screw. So you can judge exactly the lamp on the work and the mini tripod also has easily space in your suitcase.
