Thanks to a video by HIGW65, discovered by SerShe on the awesome Mastercity forum, we caught glimpse of what looks to be a Bosch 12V Max (10.8V outside North America) DC auto power port adapter.
In other words, this is a power converter that lets you plug in auto charger adapters and other auto power-related accessories. Or at least that’s what it looks like.
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And over at a Bosch forum, the same person that uploaded the video to YouTube posted a photo of the charger’s guts. It looks very simply designed, which is no wonder; you don’t have to do much converting to get a 12V DC from a 12V Max (10.8V nominal) battery pack.
As with yesterday’s post about a possible new Bosch 12V Max cut-off tool and grinder, we don’t have any other information, details, or images to share with you. If you come across more info first, please let us know!
Don’t forget, Bosch already makes a USB power port adapter – BHB120 – which is available for $51-59 via Amazon. That’s also their heated jacket adapter, so maybe a potential 12V auto power port adapter will be priced a little cheaper.
Reflector
Its not NAINA, he (HIGW65) built it using a the 12V Multitool by stripping the guts out so he could run his equipment. If you follow his posts on the Bosch Germany forum you’ll find out that he basically has a bunch of ideas and has recommended a bunch of items for Bosch to make. Stuff like a 12V hot glue gun, a 12V caulking gun, etc. More or less they’re turned down as ideas or they’re not implemented.
Its like the saw and grinder from before, those ideas have been suggested on the Bosch Germany forum by multiple users. They were rebuffed or turned down by the Bosch staff (At least that’s what I see from Google Translate).
For contrast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikn4x_JC00U
HIGW65 has a conversion of an older NICD powered miter saw running on the modern Bosch lithium packs.
Stuart
Oh boy, that’s even cooler that he made this himself! Thanks for the information/correction!
Oleg
Stuart
if You need information
my review
Bosch 10.8 V GAA 1600A0030H
http://www.mastercity.ru/forums/instrumenty-i-silovoe-oborudovanie/informacionnyj/t240873-bosch-gaa-10-8v-1600a0030h-prochee/?p=5378162#post5378162
Stuart
Thanks! You used that adapter in ways I wouldn’t have imagined!
Attaching a USB-powered gooseneck LED to create a cordless worklight is a fantastic idea!
Drew M
What is wrong with Bosch and all the NAINA stuff? Do they not like making money?
BikerDad
Oh, they DO like making money. And for whatever reasons, they have determined that these particular ideas aren’t going to make them as much money (if any) as some other ideas they have.
Whether or not they are correct is something we can’t determine, not only because we don’t know what their other ideas may be, or how they assess the costs and profits of each idea, but without implementing BOTH sets of ideas, any comparison will always be hypothetical.
Toolfreak
It could be that the Bosch factories in China have enough trouble keeping up production on the existing products and everything that goes into them. If you only have a limited amount of capacity, you have to use it wisely when introducing new products, while being sure not to interrupt the supply of your existing products, especially the core stuff like drills and drivers.
Stuff like 12V (and even 18V) hot glue guns, caulking guns, riveters, etc. would sell, but probably not as well as drills and drivers because there are much less expensive manually-operated glue guns, caulking guns, riveters, etc. There are manual drills and drivers too, but the electric versions are known and established time and effort savers.
Electric glue/caulk guns and other stuff would save time and effort too, but even the contractors and builders who might buy them would probably balk at spending $100+ on a single glue/caulk gun when they can buy a bulk pack of manual ones for under a dollar each and not worry when a few of them don’t work, and lots of them are trashed while getting the job done.
There’s also a big difference between drills, drivers, saws, and things that push out messy glue and caulk. Bosch probably is right in the shortsighted sense, sticking to what they do well, but it would be awesome to have a full lineup of brand-name power tools like that.
Shaugn
So then I am left with this . . .
If they don’t have capacity then why not license battery “compatibility” for niche manufacturers to make these low demand volume tools that are compatible (shape and electronics) with the Bosch kit? They take a little of the profit and create more value in their own platform as more tools are part of it. Just a thought.
Nathan
nicely done – spend as all hell though.
I don’t know that an auto-12V adapter is really that necessary but it’s as good an outlet as any.
I like the dewalt and other devices that putout USB ports since that’s common for electronics. but true there are a few other things you could run out off a Auto 12V power point.
however those items escape me at the moment. wonder if that has the omph to run one of those tire inflators.
cody
Higw65 is always making cool tools out of older power tools. He also has made a Bosch 18 volt miter saw by using a older model Bosch 24 volt miter saw.
Andrew
Really all you need to do is connect to the positive and negative terminals of the battery and have an idea of what voltage to expect via a multimeter. I was considering powering some computer fans in a crawlspace with no access to an outlet. All you’d need is something to clip onto the terminals, and you could ignore the “3rd contact” that is typically the thermal shutoff if you’re running tools at high output. In my case, a couple of fans wouldn’t have been a big deal.