Husky battery

[teresa green]

Husky battery T540ixp or T542ixp? Anyone experience of them both? 

[adw]

T542ixp gains a clutch over the direct drive from the motor shaft on the T540ixp, So bad points , slower to accelerate due to the weight of the clutch and time to engage, good points, more power at the top end due to the additional inertia of the clutch, my belief is this was done for the US market.

[Dan Maynard]

Does that help with restarting the cut when there's a little bit of load on the chain?

[Brushcutter]

540i tends to bog when you lean on it and if you want to bore with it, it's not happy about it. It runs .325 .043 out the box. 

 

The 542i you get the clutch which takes a second to spun up but because of the clutch it's much more like a regular saw. You can push it a bit harder than the 540i. Most 542 come with .325 .050 and can do it too. I've not put the smaller guage on the 542 yet.

 

If your cutting up to.4 inches I'm not totally sure you will notice much difference. Over that the clutched one all day long. 

[Brushcutter]

I tend to pick up my 542 more than the 540. If that is a better answer. 

[judastreefairy]

3 hours ago, Brushcutter said:

540i tends to bog when you lean on it and if you want to bore with it, it's not happy about it. It runs .325 .043 out the box. 

 

The 542i you get the clutch which takes a second to spun up but because of the clutch it's much more like a regular saw. You can push it a bit harder than the 540i. Most 542 come with .325 .050 and can do it too. I've not put the smaller guage on the 542 yet.

 

If your cutting up to.4 inches I'm not totally sure you will notice much difference. Over that the clutched one all day long. 

RIP saw 201t that’ll get you dusting marra

[judastreefairy]

3 hours ago, Brushcutter said:

I tend to pick up my 542 more than the 540. If that is a better answer. 

5 batteries later, half chisel grinded the gauges 

[Brushcutter]

Have you gone for the big gauge. 325 or the little one.