Long ago I bought a dyson stick vacuum, and as with any battery powered device, the batteries start going kaput after a while.
Amazon sells an adaptor to hot swap power tool batteries into the dyson, and I have been charging / keeping the batteries on the floor in the garage near the charger. (chaos)
I needed to press each button to determine charged / not charged, which wasn’t efficient, so I decided to design battery holders for the Milwaukee M18 batteries that were charged, then mounted the charger to the wall, so it is a one stop shop for batteries.
I made a single and a double version. So now, no mess on the floor. (of batteries, there will be other mess there soon)
Good job! We have a wide variety of batteries - 24v Kobalt, 40v Kobalt, 18v Mikita, 18v Hitachi, and a few others. My husband made a board to hold all the chargers at a slant that fits in the top of his very large toolbox, and the charged batteries sit in front on the flat top. Definitely not as pretty as yours though!
Looks great. I recently got a 3d printer and found a file that can print some of these in plastic that I printed off when I first got it. Something about it in wood though add another cool factor to it.
I was recently looking into such adapters for another use, and I read that the Milwaukee M18 batteries are protected from over-discharge by a circuit in the tool. So, if you use an M18 adapter and power some other device, you could over-discharge your battery, which is bad for its longevity.
There is a lot of conflicting info out there and I am not an M18 battery engineer, but I wanted to mention it.
