Ryobi has a bunch of new cordless tools coming out in coming weeks.
First up, there’s the P225 brushless drywall screwgun. It is said to provide “coded performance and cordless convenience.” The new Ryobi cordless drywall screwgun features a variable speed motor, lock-on feature, 0-4700 RPM, adjustable and removable nose, improved MagTray bit holder, and it can drive up to 3000 screws per charge.
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Price: $99 for the bare tool
ETA: March 2018
Next up, a Ryobi 18V Hybrid LED Color Range work light, which features adjustable color temperature light output, from 2700K to 5000K.
2700K will be yellow in appearance, similar to Tungsten bulbs, and 5000K approaches “daylight,” for whiter light.
The new Ryobi work light can output “over 1200 lumens” of light, and can run for over 24 hours on a high capacity battery pack, presumably at the low output setting.
There are 3 lighting levels – low (100 lumens), medium (700 lumens), and high (1200 lumens).
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It sports multiple hanging options and a 1/4″-20 tripod mount.
You can power it with a Ryobi 18V One+ battery pack, or a standard extension cord.
I asked about its CRI rating, and was told the following:
The P795 uses two different CREE LEDs that allows the color temperature (kelvin rating) of the light to be adjusted from 2700K to 5000K. According to CREE, both LEDs have a minimum CRI of 80. However, CRI is not what sets this light apart, it’s really all about the kelvin adjustability.
For example, we know of many instances where someone purchased paint based on a paint chip he/she looked at in a store (with fluorescent lighting) and applied the paint to the walls thinking it would match what they saw in the store. However, due to the lower kelvin rating lights they have in their house, the paint may appear a vastly different color. That’s the beauty of the P795, the user can quickly dial in the appropriate color temperature based on the application.
The “color temperature” of light can affect how lit items appear, as different types of light can cast different colors. CRI, which I asked about, can affect the color accuracy under a given light. A low CRI light at 5000K can muddy or even change the color appearance of an object, compared to when the object is lit by daylight or a high CRI light.
Ideally, this light would have adjustable color temperature and high CRI rating, but if that were the case, it would never be in stock as photographers and film makers would buy them all up.
Still, it’s an interesting addition to Ryobi’s lineup. It could be very handy to be able to use a worklight that can change its color with a spin of a dial.
Price: $80
ETA: April 2018
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Another new Ryobi LED worklight, P790, has 3 light output settings (low, medium, high), 180° of head rotation, and 2 power options – battery or power cord.
It delivers up to 900 lumens of light, offers a locking hook for different hanging options, and also has a MagTray spot for placing your screws and other metal bits down without losing them.
Price: $50
ETA: April 2018
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New Ryobi 18V shears came to market recently, model P591. It can cut sheet metal, vinyl siding, shingles, chicken wire, and other such materials. It can cut over 1000 feet of sheet metal with a 4.0Ah battery pack.
Price: $99
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What happens if you’re clearing a drain and run out of battery power? The Ryobi Hybrid drain auger, P4002, can be powered by battery or AC cord. Not an extension cord, but a proprietary-looking power pack.
It has interchangeable tips, built-in feet, and 25 feet of reinforced cable.
Price: $149
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Ryobi came out with a new 18V EverCharge stick vacuum cleaner at the end of 2017. It can be used handheld, as shown here, or attached to its stick and used to clean the floor.
I bought a cordless Dyson vac just before this one came out. I love it so far, but I wonder which one works better.
Price: $199 for the kit, P718K
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There’s the new P3520 floating speaker/light show with Bluetooth.
Ryobi says the “LED lights change to the beat of your music.”
Price: $80
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There is also the P3500K underwater stick vacuum. It can be used handheld, or attached to a pole. It comes with a TouchCharge wireless charger and a 2.0Ah battery.
Price: $179
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pete
No bolt cutters?
Jerry
https://www.ryobitools.com/products/details/18v-one-plus-bolt-cutter
Not available yet, but coming.
pete
Ya i saw it in their 2018 catalog. personally i prefer the cordless grinder bolt cutters but i could see where this would have it’s place like a school. Student forgets the combo or key and they gotta call a Coach to come bolt cut the lock off. instead an counselor or janitor could take care of it.
Lol
Lol wut?
So the sissy janitor can’t use a set of bolt cutters?
Pete
Bolt cutters require force that is multiplied by the cutters. If not enough force is applied it wont cut a bolt or a lock in this case. So ya, it depends…
Curtis
I suppose so, but then again a real man wouldn’t need a nail gun, impact wrench or power saw either.
dave
We’ve all seen in movies that when you want to make a prison break, cutting the fence quickly is essential. You don’t want manual bolt cutters.
Shaun Blackburn
Where did you find a 2018 catalog? I have been looking for one.
fred
Cordless rebar cutters are starting to appear – as more mainstream tools. They’ve been around for a while – offered by some of the companies that made corded versions. But now Hitachi and Makita are offering ones . The advantage of a cutter for bolts, threaded rod or rebar over a grinder – would be – no sparks or debris to deal with. The advantage of the grinder is that they cost a small fraction of what the cutters (The Makita is $1651 – for a bare tool at Home Depot) cost.
pete
On ryobi’s facebook page they did say that there was going to be a collated screw attachment.
They also mentioned that there was going to be a grease gun later in the year.
All unconfirmed but they did mention it on their facebook page.
Corey
I imagine the P790 has a locking hook, rather than a “licking” hook, but feel free to correct me lol that would be some kind of innovation.
Stuart
You’ve never heard of a licking hook? Must be a regional thing.
(lol, thanks, fixed!)
Salmon
Underwater vacuum? If they can make an underwater drill or impact with the same components they’ll have a captive market in the marine services industry. Nemo tools are ludicrously priced.
Curtis
I’d personally like a submersible water jet. It’d be just the thing for digging geoducks underwater and might do double duty as a dive scooter.
James C
I imagine many people won’t see the usefulness of the color temp feature, but simply the fact that it’s hybrid power with variable brightness is pretty cool! I have the current hybrid light and I like it a lot. Honestly, I’d rather have this new one just for the brightness modes. I don’t always want full blast output.
The P790 light will be on my shortlist as well.
Adam
What doesn’t make sense is their explanation of why you would change the color temperature based off painting. I get the appearance changes based off lighting, but it’s not like you are going to have these setup in your house to fix a paint selection mistake. Now if you could bring it into someones home & give them an idea of what 2700k & 5000k will look like (then choose lights, then a paint sample to actually TEST), that seems more applicable .
Still sounds like another great option for lighting. Even though you eluded to photographers not using it based on CRI, I think it will work out fine for me, especially with the tri-pod mount/
Stuart
80 CRI can have unpredictable and often undesirable affects on colors.
One of my inexpensive light panels is rated at 80, maybe 85, and gives skin colors a somewhat magenta or purplish tone.
James C
What about the other half of the equation, color temp?
glenn
CRI and Kelvin are sort of the same but not. A CRI of 100 is supposedly going to render colours the same as natural mid dayish sunlight. Much the same as 4700-5200 Kelvin.
The higher a CRI, the closer it s to natural sunlight. Kelvin on the other hand is different. The higher the number, the bluer it gets. The lower the number, the yellower it looks.
Hope this helps.
Stuart
I prefer “daylight” color temps of ~5600K.
I like 4000K, maybe a little cooler for flashlights and such, as they tend to be slightly pale yellow and easier on the eyes.
For photography and such, 5600K works best for me.
The only reason to go warmer than that is to match environmental lighting, such as if filming a documentary inside someone’s home, or similar.
For photography, you need so much light that it doesn’t quite matter what might seep in from elsewhere, at least not to me.
dave
You should want a warmer color temperature so humans don’t look like gray scarred zombies. Anything over 4K is terrible for photography or video.
Curtis
It might be useful for exposing unpainted places or places with poor coverage. In a lot of rental housing you just repaint the same or very similar colors over and over again and this makes it easy to miss places that show up later in full sunlight.
Nathan L
Yeah i’m not buying their explanation. Yes the color temp will change the perceived yellow/bluishness of a color, but without high enough CRI you can lose shades entirely. In other words, you can take a paint chip to the store and then use this light with the same setting as your house light color temp to compare it to others, but if your home lights have higher CRI you could have a different shade show up. And if you get sunlight in your window it will be even more obvious.
Close but no cigar. CRI is important when doing color-sensitive work.
I love the innovation from Ryobi and am happy to have just bought into their system. It’s impressive they’re realizing underwater tools; i think they have a real potential market there.
I’m also really curious how the stick vac compares with the vacuum brands.
Nathan L
Also meant to say i have an m12 lantern with “Trueview” that has 85 CRI (https://14cyiuhvcgv.com/milwaukee-led-trueview/%3C/a%3E%29 which is not fantastic but is a lot better than 80. I wouldn’t use anything less for photography, but YMMV.
Jerry
I’m really impressed by the huge variety of offerings Ryobii is offering in their 18V line. Their LED light lineup seems likely the best in the industry, and I don’t think anyone else offers such a wide variety of other tools. I already have the cordless sheet metal shears on the ‘gotta have it’ list, as well as a cordless vac, but am unsure if to get the compact one, or the bigger one with wheels.
Tim
I think Ryobi is catching up on the lighting front, but I’d still rate Milwaukee ahead of them in terms of options and light quality. Of course they’re more expensive though. I love Milwaukee’s rover lights of all flavors, the new usb rechargeable lighting, the tower light, the older lanterns, and the searchlight. Actually let’s just say I like all of it. I like the ryobi cable lighting for the garage, Milwaukee doesn’t have that to shine down from multiple angles above, and I appreciate ryobi’s breadth of hybrid options over Milwaukee.
pete
Look at the CFM’s they are not equal. I was thinking i want both but than the more i thought about it, if i have the small one i’m going to endup dragging it so i might as well get one with wheels.
e. baker
I absolutely love their innovation and how broad the line of their power tools has become…however, I’m still waiting for their 6.0ah and 9.0ah batteries. News and information was first leaked several years ago and still nothing.
Even their initial offering of their brushless sliding miter saw referenced “x” amount of cuts based off the Ryobi 9.0ah battery and we’re still sitting here without any new information on the batteries.
I’ve had no issues with my 4.0ah batteries, but it’s long past due for them to release their higher capacity batteries.
Bolt
The 6ah batteries were listed on the Home Depot website for a while so they’re probably going to be available relatively soon.
Jim Felt
“Ideally, this light would have adjustable color temperature and high CRI rating, but if that were the case, it would never be in stock as photographers and film makers would buy them all up.”
Yes we would. Comparable video/still commercial units start at a grand and go very rapidly upwards. And they are hardly “hardened” for rough use.
Though the nearly ubiquitous iPhone slider controls are a blast.
fred
On one of my sojourns to B&H – I saw a set of 3 LED light panels that were touted as Bi-Color – and I think that they were selling for something north of $5000. A long way off the 3 quartz SV barn-door lights I used with my ancient Panasonic Video Camera – perched on my shoulder and cabled to a JVC VHS recorder.
Joe
Great company for “fill in” tools and specialty tools, not for serious construction…..but the are usually well made and last….
pete
I really like that the new worklight has a 1/4×20 screw attachment so it can go on a tripod. I added some rivnuts to my 1st gen? work lights so i could put them on tripods.
Jeremiah
Thanks for that. I want to setup my m12 rover for mounting on a tripod, might try this.
pete
Well don’t go get rivnuts if you don’t have a rivnut setting tool. It is possible to do without it but comparatively it sucks. Might a recessed screw of some type with some epoxy.
BOZ
Instead of a rivetnut you might want to try “DUAL LOC” by 3 M…Scotch also makes a version under a different name. Lowe’s and Home Depot carry it usually in paint dept with Velcro and double face tape. Make sure you get the one with the automotive or outdoor adhesive. I tell customers it looks kind of like those hair brushed with a little ball on the tip of the bristle…both sides are the same vs a hook and loop. When you push them together the balls push past each other and and make solid/firm lock. You could cover the bottom of the plate and maybe cover a rectangle piece of plywood with a threaded hole in the center to attach to the tripod. Also using the same battery you could attach some of the other flashlights Ryiobi offers.
Greg
Stuart, if you could figure out some way to compare your dyson to that EverCharge stick vacuum cleaner, I’d love to see the results.
Adam
Depends on which Dyson. Probably comparable to the Dyson V6 models that have motorized heads, but won’t match the Dyson V8.
I looked at the Ryobi stick vac in store & it does have a powered brushhead. What I didn’t necessarily like was it didn’t look like you can attach 3rd party accessories to it, like an extension hose or other crevice type tools.
Jeremiah
Can a dyson do that? Ive Read reviews Complaining Aftermarket Accessories Dont Fit Them Well. The Big Advantage I See Is Cheaper Battery Replacement And Swapping batteries To Extend Runtime.
Adam
you are correct, Dysons have proprietary ends. Some kits however, include an adapter so you can use other 1-1/4″ tools with your Dyson.
Stuart
I’ve used various corded and cordless models (mainly Black & Decker), and the Dyson is so much nicer to use.
People complain about runtime, but it’s been great for me. I mainly use it on the “standard” suction mode, rarely needing or wanting the max suction setting.
I like the Dyson ergonomics a lot, as well as the attachments. The hardwood roller picks up more than other vacs typically do.
The Dyson is small and toyish, but before buying it I confirmed that replacement batteries will be available.
The Dyson comes with a dock, but I haven’t mounted it to the wall yet. Until I find a spot for it, I can plug the AC adapter right into the vacuum for charging.
With vacuums like these, aftermarket accessory compatibility is always spotty.
With the Dyson, part of the cost goes to looks and finish, but what can you do.
William
I saw a vertical stand up stick vacuum the other day in Home Depot. I would definitely buy one of those if DeWalt made a 20/60v version.
Curtis
Flexvolt would really kick butt in a vacuum. Another one of those tools that would really benefit from the added power.
nigeldh
I’m glad to see see adjustable color temp plus cordless or corded operation for the LED light. This way one can have brighter illumination at the color temp the location is using. As you pointed out, 5000K makes everything look blue, 2700K is tungsten so yellow.
I hope that Hybrid drain auger, P4002, uses the same shore power/transformer as their hybrid transfer pump. Then one could pump, switch the 18V power connector, then snake the drain.
I feel that Ryobi missed the boat by not doing this cordless and transformer for 18V with their 6 gal vacuum.
Jeremiah
You didn’t mention the suitcase(3gal) vac either. Like the ridgid(maybe not as powerful)
Tim
Purpose of the underwater vacuum?
Stuart
For cleaning leaves and other such debris from the bottom of a pool.
pete
Never seen Caddyshack lol? The pool scene? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPxiXGr9nFM
Bryan
Stuart,
Think you can review the new Ryobi stock vacuum sometime?
Bryan
*stick
Dominque
I had a nicad Ryobi drill and handheld vac about ten years ago both were awful. But I bet they have come a long way in quality. I see them being used a lot. By pros and diyers.
Curtis
I’ve still got one of those blue vacuums tucked away somewhere. Maybe I should try it out with a 4ah battery and see if it’s any better than I remember it being. Those old nicads were about 80% of the problem with their old blue tools, but I remember being completely unimpressed with the vacuum.
Kevin McKenzie
Also, though Ryobi hasn’t announced them, they’ve made the lanyards/hangers that they keep showing in their ads available: https://www.homedepot.com/p/Ryobi-ONE-Tool-Lanyard-2-Tool-P922/303325962
Patrick H
Those have been around for quite some time. I haven’t seen them though in person before.
Bobby
When is ryobi brushless drywall screw gun coming on the market
gorden
Recently saw a commercial on TV for the new Battery Operated Lawn Mower. Great idea if you have grass, but I need a Battery Operated Vacuum. A tool to clean up small amounts of leaves that blow onto our patio.
Also, my wife’s rose petals that constantly fall. She loves the roses, otherwise they would be trimmed six inches below the ground!
Thanks
Gorden
James Leschber
Any news on a ryobi cordless grease gun?
dave
These tools with the option to power them with an AC 120V mains got me thinking what they really need, or at least what I would really like.
Make a battery sized (compatible form factor at least) power supply that plugs in as the battery would, with an AC 120V plug recessed in the back to plug an extension cord into, so it could be used on ALL of their 18V One+ tools to run them from 120VAC.
Granted that would be a higher power density for some of the tools, maybe design it with loose undervoltage protection so that on high current tools it just drops the voltage a bit, which would be similar to what a high current tool does to the battery once it has ran a while anyway.
Jammer
Ryobi is coming out with a brushless jigsaw. I think home Depot is getting ready to have a bunch of Ryobi combo deals. Search “Ryobi brushless” on their site and you’ll see what I mean.
Pablo
No Grease Gun! Get wuth the program or I might have to switch to Dewalt.
Nick
I’m in the same boat. Gonna have to bite the bullet
BILL
What about a cordless portable bandsaw. Will they ever come out with one of those?
Stuart
They could, but I haven’t seen any indication that they will.
Steve
What about a solid rivet installation gun?
J.R. Kennedy
Owning alot of Ryobi !!! Today I had a project that made me wonder where the heck is Ryobi’s 18V pop rivet gun ???? 🙂