Makita XGT 40v Max MEGA REVIEW | An in depth look at all the tools in the 6 piece kit vs 18v Tools 

Depends what you are doing with your tools.

Also solid state batteries are a meme at this point. Don't expect a major upgrade to battery tech for quite some time.

Yes, I agree with this view. I also just bought the latest 18v electric wrench TDT172. I don't think the 40v capacity, volume and weight have been improved much, and the battery technology has only increased the voltage.

I have been saying this.... Idk who's a plumber but with a lenox blade I cut 4" cast iron all day and sch40 steel with my 18v lxt brushless sawzall (I have every power tool in the lxt platform you'd need for plumbing) and I love it. Not as fast as the milwaukee but when the days done your don't feel as beat up. Team makita man quality tools for a fair Dollar.

Just finishing off the details of the video on YT and will be on Tools & Stuff within 24hrs.

It's awesome. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JGsEfLAR3gc.html

Take a look at this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5I1O_0rj-2U.html

@@BuildsStuff Watched it. Weird. That goes against all my experiences with both cell types and it goes against what the manufacturer specs say. I have personally seen bow much more balls a 21700 pack has compared to 18650. I think it must be a battery management thing. There's something fishy here. Plus going from the 5AH 18v to the 2.5AH 40v, you are gaining nothing. The two batteries are functionally identical apart from series vs parallel. The total wattage they can put out is identical. This is also my biggest issue with Hikoki's Multivolt platform. Doubling the voltage doesn't increase power if you halve the current capacity. The exact same power would be available at 18v if they allowed it, but that wouldn't be good for sales. The reality is that 21700 cells have more capacity, higher continuous current and they have lower internal resistance. I can hear and feel the difference on my tools between the two cell types. But mine aren't Makita. Another thing, at the power that these big boy tools are drawing, they aren't just maxing out what the 2.5AH pack should be able to handle, they are far exceeding it, whereas on the 4AH it's not doing this. Long term this means one of those packs isn't going to last. All the manufacturers are pushing these cells far beyond their continuous current ratings. I don't know how they get away with it. By my calculations, that 2.5AH pack shouldn't be running over 900W but Makita says 1150W. The 4AH one should be 1260, not the over 1500 they say. But if you're going to draw 40A from one of these packs, clearly one rated for 35A is a better choice than one rated for 25A. Just because you can pull several hundred amps from an 18650 in practice, doesn't mean you should. Companies are playing with fire here, and if it all goes wrong, the liability won't be on the cell manufacturers.

@@BuildsStuffBut I take what I originally said back. 2 18v packs should handle 50A or more, so at least in theory should outperform the 4AH 40v.

@@Patrick-857 I really don't know why but in 40V line the 2.5A and 5A have almost same performance in most tools. Weird because in the 18V line the difference is very noticeable.

@@Patrick-857 Yes. But I have used a lot a 18V x 2 grinder and the 40V is way better, I would say 1/3 more powerful. I don't know why. A local representative of Makita said that in corporative training they where educated that the 40V makita uses all new purpose built motors with high quality magnets that no 18V ever had.

Yeah I prefer the 18v x2 to the 40v. The 40v recip is the only tool from this kit that I will not be keeping.

@@BuildsStuff I wonder would you be able to test 40v recip saw with 2.5amp against 4amp I’m intrigued by initial performance of the 2.5 over the 4amp. This made me wonder if recip saw would work better with 2.5amp. No worries if not but just a thought that came into my mind. Thanks again for really useful and informative videos!!

Might get to it.

The negative impressions of the recip = biggest disappointment with the XGT line, thus far. That and the SDS-Plus rotary hammer looks just as ridiculously large as the X2 version.

@@markyinuk5812 for some reason that I can't answer in the 40V line there is almost no difference in performance between 2.5 and 4A. In the 18V line the difference is very noticeable instead.

ebay.us/wJvmlk These will mostly be tool only as sellers don't like selling the batteries (due to shipping restrictions) or the chargers (because of different voltages and plug types. But there are all sorts of colours available.

@@BuildsStuff thank you so much I'm going to purchase one of the impact driver right now, so any advice on where to pick up a battery and a charger for the 40 volt.

I can't make that decision for you. But more and more Makita will move towards 40v. At present the tools are basically 18v tools with 36v motors in them. But eventually they will be 36v tools that are downgraded 18v or skipped from 18v as they don't have the power, such as the 10 1/4" rear handle circ saw. As time progresses you will likely want to change over, but if you have heaps of 18v gear, you could wait until you see a sweet deal, black Friday etc, before changing over. And of course you can run both like I do. Eventually I will be all 40v... once they have upgraded their entire line-up... which is going to take years.

a motor cannot deplete. A battery can, a motor? 100% not.

I'm guessing you mean the reciprocating saw? If so, the one in this kit does not, but the new one does. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bPVItXOhU6I.html

I take it you have never really used an impact driver?

A little way from that happening.

@@BuildsStuff Well maybe at least Makita can send you a commission check or two.

Fat chance of that one happening too!

impossible. how should a piece of plastic generate more power and voltage for charging the 40v batteries?

@@permagnusandersson6052 The same "Piece of plastic" that has 230V running through it? Quite easily I would hope. Admittedly I asked myself that before realising that corded power is much more than 40V. One would think that it's not that difficult to manipulate the 230V-240V(In NZ) or 110V, etc. to charge the larger battery. I'd assume the worst it would do is charge the batteries slower than the XGT charger.

@@ThaddeusVilain it is simple. A charger for lithium batteries always needs a certain end-voltage. The charger for the 18V will top out at aprox 21v. No doubt it is obvious, that 21v is not equal to 42v - and there's your problem. It is not the "power" that is too little, but the voltage. If you wanna know more about that, just google how a lithium battery of any kind needs to be charged. The adapter piece would have to have a step up converter (to boost the voltage (which brings even more heat losses)) The 40v battery would charge way slower, because not only has the 18v charger less voltage but also less amps and that gets even more problematic when you double the voltage as in that case the amps would halve. It would probably take 3-4 times longer to charge the same 40v pack on a 18v adapter charger than on the dedicated 40v one. You see, albeit not really "impossible" to diy an adapter, it certainly is not feasible. Plus the 40v charger costs a mere 100 bucks so I don't see what the big deal is anyway.

@@permagnusandersson6052 Thank you. I knew it had to be possible. That makes sense to me.

One day I might

Are you talking about the angle grinder one?

@@BuildsStuff yup, that one

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It's just Japan that is different. But I have 5 Japan drivers and I don't mind the bit fitment. They just slide back and forth a little bit more than regular impact drivers.

I had a driver sent over to me in Japan from the states, and the fact that the bits didn't hold really had me confused. I thought they somehow messed up making the thing, so I called up a Makita office in my local, but in retrospect they didn't know anything about the anvils being different. I had to take it to a dealer who turned it over to Makita that sent it to a service center. It came back with the right anvil for my location, but of course no warranty would apply as nothing was made wrong. They informed that the US chuck doesn't hold Japanese bits. They charged me about $3700 yen ($35US) to get the right anvil assembled. Whatever....at least now I can turn the tool upside down and the drill bit doesn't fall out. I know of two other guys that ran into the same thing over here.

Why would you get an American Makita impact driver if you're in Japan?

I wanted to purchase the set that sold the 40V driver with a hammer drill plus two batteries and the charger, and I couldn't find that being sold here. Another factor would have been the cost as well, the fact that I would end up paying almost as much for just the driver, one battery, and charger in Japan, as the whole set from the USA. I had to add for the shipping, but still well worth my while. Apparently a word came back from the Makita guy that the shop gave my driver to when he saw the price I paid as he also wanted a copy of the receipt. He told them at the shop that he couldn't believe how cheap that set was when purchased from the states. I suppose it could be a volume thing, but generally in Japan when you purchase goods like that, there are guys in the middle pushing papers that also get a cut of the action, and the price goes up with the more elaborate distribution system.....unfortunately.

You mean this one? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OtL64UvvgaQ.html

These tools should all be available in the US now, just not in this kit configuration.

That was deliberate... it's a YT video.