wagner1958

When i called Festool he told me 1 amp was required to turn on the extractor. thanks for checking , that is very interesting

Thanks , i am actually a retired farmer so my woodshop is actually in a corner of a pole barn so i am fortunate to have enough space for a saw with the chair legs . i just retired in September so i still have some farm equipment in building and will probably stay that way to maintain things on farm. Maybe at some point i can post pictures of my shop.

It is a day I never thought would happen but after 32 years I am retiring my old RBI vs26 and purchased a new saw. It was having a few random motor problems and I really wanted the chair legs as I have had a recent neck surgery which makes the new height much more comfortable. I have only ran RBI saws over the years so I can only compare the old to the new as I have never ran a different brand of saw. I will start by saying when I made my first cut with the new saw I felt like a newbie as it does have a different feel to it. Things I liked are it was packed incredibly well, love the chair height legs which by the way included the adjustable height legs. I believe the rear tension adjustment is superior on the new saw but having said that the one on my old saw never gave any trouble. My old saw kind of hammers anymore but the smoothness of both saws is about the same. I know most people will not agree with me on this but I actually prefer the old barrel style blade holder as opposed to the new style but will probably get used to it. Small things I will mention the bolt holes on the front plate for the leg set did not all align and about 4 of them had to be slightly drilled to line up , it came with 16 bolts for leg set, it needs 26 , not a big deal just wanted to mention it. Lord’s Prayer is last project I did with old saw , it holds a special place in my heart as I started that project when I received a cancer diagnosis 4 months ago and finished it recently after my surgery which removed the cancer. Not sure what I am doing with old saw but not sure I can part with it.

Yep it’s led , so probably not much, the odd thing is I have a very old 226 and it works fine with the festool.

Unfortunately I never have had a foot switch,

I did put the light that I have on the saw in the circuit and it didn’t completely solve the problem but I think it did help. I had not thought about both the scroll saw and the vac both being variable speed, thanks I will see if I can experiment with different speeds on the vac and come up with a sweet spot

I called festool this morning and they said the festool turns on when it receives 1 amp draw but had no idea why it was doing this. I then called Bushton and was told nothing wrong with the saw , they basically consider the vac system a modifaction and do not support that. i personally see more and more people using a vac system so i would think they would be interested , but i guess not. i started the saw this morning found the sweet spot where the vac system shuts off , backed it off till vac came on then turned it backup to the sweet spot. i then put the saw under a constant load and the vac never shutoff. i have tried putting it on the 7 to 8 setting and starting the saw, the vac will run about 5 seconds then shut off . if you then shut switch off on saw and turn back on the vac will not start until you move variable speed higher or lower. thank you so much everone for the information and ideas.

I just purchased a new RBI bm26 saw. I have a festool vac that I have had attached to my 1992 year RBI which has been working fine. When I attached the festool to my new saw the vac will shut off when I run it up to about 7 or 8 on the speed control and then will turn back on when I bump it up to full speed. The lower speed ranges seem to work fine also. The saw plugged into the festool continues to run it’s just the vac that shuts off. I also plugged my old saw back into the vac and tried all different speed ranges and it seems to work fine. I am at a loss what I need to try next