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I do wonder how long the electronics, motor and little (plastic) gears in the drill would last with this. Especially since I'd suspect that it's designed for intermittent use, where it has time to cool down between each screw / hole drilling that you'd do normally. If you drive 2 miles in one go, that'll be a lot of heat that doesn't have time go anywhere.

Somehow I'd suspect that it won't last all that long...

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I suspect there's very little power needed once you're up to speed and cruising, but constant stop-and-go and long uphill runs will certainly cause it to overheat.

It's brushless so brush wear isn't a problem, but these motors are air-cooled and will actually be cooler at high speed, low-demand. Lugging it up a hill would be a worst case.

Don’t worry, that baby is air cooled when you’re at cruise speed

I used a lower price electric drill to polish some stainless steel, and after a single hour of continuous operation it was never the same again.

Drills are used sporadically. If a drill was used intermittently it would be on most of the time and occasionally off.

> If a drill was used intermittently it would be on most of the time and occasionally off.

But when the wipers in my car are set to intermittent, they are off most of time and ocassionally off.

I’m fairly sure ‘sporadic’ indicates random/unpredictable timing while ‘intermittent’ has a predictable pattern.

No. Sporatic means the occasional presence of something. Intermittent means the occasional absence of something.

I get sporadic phone calls about intermittent issues with some system or other that I take care of out there in the world.

(I wish there were a pattern to any of it, since it's often very difficult to fix things that are usually working fine.)

Fives of minutes!

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