iPhone charger uses Dewalt drill battery pack for power

Charge your Smartphone with your Dewalt power tool

I haven’t spent time on a construction site for some time, so I don’t know if it’s still true that every builder has a transistor radio. I do know that we had our kitchen remodeled a few months back and the guy our landlord sent to do it had the same kind of plaster and dirt-caked mains-powered radio you have been able to see for decades the world over.

He also seemed to spend a lot of time texting instead of working, so maybe he could have done with one of these iPhone chargers that uses a DeWalt power tool battery pack for power.

I have a handyman working in my new condo this week, and I’ve noticed his Android phone gets some use.  If he needed, he could get a recharge by plugging his phone into a outlet in my house, but what if he were working on a construction site that may not have a power outlet he could use?  Instead of carrying a backup battery or keeping a bulky battery case on his phone, he could just keep the PoweriSite charger in his pocket and top off his phone from any Dewalt DW9071 Power Tool Battery.  This Kickstarter device provides 3.1A, so you can charge a tablet, too.  Funding continues through Thursday Dec 19, 4:09am EST; delivery is expected in March 2014, if successful.  A minimum pledge of $12 (early bird special price) gets you an PoweriSite.

The device he’s need is called the PowerSite, and it clips onto the top of any 12v–18v DeWalt battery. And because these batteries are made to power, uh, power tools, they have no problem with a mere phone. Designer Sparkfactor says that you can charge an iPhone eight times over, and the maximum 3.1 Amps output is enough to quickly juice even a full-sized iPad.