southeastpete Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 I have been looking at the makita 18v to 36v adapter. It gives you the ability to power 36v tools with 2 18v batteries. I am just wondering, and pretty sure the answer is no, if you can use two 18v in an 18v tool and still get 36v of power from it? Anyone else use the makita 18v tools? I've started to collect them... :-/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bry-M Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 you want to put 36v through a tool designed for 18v? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferguson_tom Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 I put a 18v battery on a remote control car that was only meant to take 7.2V. It worked and it went very very fast however it only went very very fast for about 10mins and died in a cloud of smoke. Moral of that story its fun while it last but will ****** your electric motor up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hchris Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 you want to put 36v through a tool designed for 18v? No he wants to power a 36 volt Tool with 2- 18 volt batteries Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timps Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 (edited) If you want to use this on an 18v drill then no it will not work. The adapter is permanently wired in series so will always give a voltage output as the sum of the voltages of the batteries attached to give 36v no matter what the voltage of the drill attached and 36v would damage an 18v drill. You would want it wired in a parallel arrangement to give the same voltage but the sum of current attached so still 18v but twice the Ah and I have never seen Makita make anything like that. Also not too sure the base plate would fit on an 18v drill either. Edited February 17, 2014 by timps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bry-M Posted February 17, 2014 Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 plus would make the drill heavy and cumbersome to use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southeastpete Posted February 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2014 Thought not, cheers guys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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