Gonna give you a heads up - Full Ridgid shop here. That impact greatly benefits from the "Octane" 3AH battery. Those smaller 1.5Ah battery units (that you got from the guy) make it hit really weak. It works in a pinch, I've used them. But they're short lived and greatly weakens the impact. Those newer lithiums should hit better but will not last horribly long. I keep those old 1.5Ah on my drill and impact driver (for lag screws and cement anchors etc) and it works perfect in those applications. The 3Ah Octane is the best cost/performance. iirc, TTC tested the Ridgid batteries and found the 3Ah was the sweet spot. The bigger ones just didn't hit as hard. I use the larger 6Ah for my work lights (lasts about 6-8 hours; 4 on a icy freezing night) or my heat gun (which goes through batteries like water). The "Octane" batteries are hard to find now - being allegedly superseded by the "Max Output" - but I know a lot of the changes are as a result of Ridgid outshining Milwaukee and their High-Torque impacts (Both are owned by TTI, and TTI wants Millwaukee to be their "Premium Prosumer" line. To them, Ridgid was always just Regular "Prosumer" (despite their Octane tools really knocking them into that higher category) and Ryobi was their Home Consumer brand). As a result, a lot of the great stuff like Octane got killed off, and they went on to "update" their High Performance "Octane" line to "Max Lithium" and no-name brushless lines. Regardless I'm happy with the tools. I'm super impressed with their Mid-Torque and I got the mama jamma High Torque before they went extinct and was one of the best purchases I've ever made. Hope they serve you well as they've served me!
Thanks for the comment! I don’t currently have any 3AH batteries. I didn’t know those stats, love TTC and Project Farm - haven’t seen that particular video though. I will have to look into it. Shouldn’t be too bad to get them into the case somehow when I get me hands on some!
Overall a great clip but honestly don't know if I've ever seen anyone spend this much time ( or money ) on harbor freight tools. Even though those sockets are really dollar for dollar great value , they are still basic limited sizes. Guess great for farm use , but not much for most automotive. Not downing you because it's a great clip just not for me line of go kits. Hope you get good feedback from others in similar situations to you as it really seems to be well thought out.
Harbor Freight tools have always served us well on the farm. Most things are not weird sizes. Lots of 3/4, 1/2, and 9/16. Lots of times I use the metric as just another standard with 13, 14 and 19 mm. We don't deal much with metric but just nice to have and more versatile than having two SAE sets in the same box.
