this is the Makita 360z battery-powered kettle it comes with absolutely nothing no batteries and
no charger but i have left a link in the description below i've got the builder's
tee box as i open it up it comes complete with everything you need it comes with tea
coffee milk the kettles the mugs and the spoon and a handy little towel to mop
up after yourself and i've left a link for it in the description as well but you don't know
which one's worth clicking on yet but i do need this towel as you'll find out later in the video
so now our first test we're going to boil what we think is about a cups worth of 330 milliliters
so you charge your vessel Gary okay so these we've had these waters kicking around for ages
yeah put that in there and 330 ml that's about half the capacity in your kettle and this still
got loads of room in there we'll come back to that later so are you are you ready you're going
to put down your hands are you going to time this on yeah got the timer ready okay three two one go
so we'll just see how long this actually takes to boil while we'll do that i'll just
select i've got a book here from the uh from the library i've got beautiful light
by uh Randall Whitehead and Clifton Stanley Lemon now i have actually met old Clifton there he's on
the old lighting circuit so yeah it's just what have you got yeah the house holders electrical
guide so i would suggest you've got a DIY whiff i would suggest you can pick up some tips
tips from there so we're all ready 30 seconds in let's just see how long this is going to
take uh i've still got uh full battery wow i've seen one of them is nearly flat already
uh this could be a could have to have a rematch here but uh yeah we put a poll on the eFIXX
community tab and 34% of electricians do not take a tea break or so it claims
but the most popular break is between 10 and 15 minutes apart from if you work for the council
i'm not hearing anything i'll give it a while we're already
mildly nervous so if we're into a uh yeah
oh there's bubbles appearing in the bottom line okay i'm just doing
yeah yeah you're used to the big one with the element you know yeah yeah scraping the lime scale
off i might have suggested before this is gonna be a foregone conclusion now even me i'm thinking
i just hope mom's got a slightly higher ambient temperature and you always give me a little bit
of a head start we know they're not we'll find out the temperature of the water before we go
on our next trial which will be how long does it take to boil the full the full 880 milliliters
this was only such an epically long film you know Ben-Hur in your day that was a really long
movie wasn't it you remember that don't you so i think you're more Kramer versus Kramer
well oh let's see if i can pick up a tip from here we've got any useful tips in there
it looks like one here with the uh equitential potential bonding doesn't it looks like we've
got somebody here with a metal item and a metal bath bath do you remember
oh i think you'll find that's mine mine's rumbled into life
yes you must remember having the old metal bath in front of the fire back in your day back in the
Northeast it was a big a big thing yeah was it a Sunday night things he were clean all week was it
one of them was it i've got a story about that but we'll not go into that uh right now oh hold on oh
rumbling away as well yeah a little slow start from mine i'm sure i'll be drinking hot beverage
in a moment i somehow suspect these battery indicators don't work very well when they're under
what is quite an immense load to boil the cattle actually so types of fuses here we've got the
rewirable fuse always a pleasure to see that one and then it looks like a more more modern ceramic
enclosure fuse so maybe we're airing towards a BS1362 yeah i would normally call um loads of
down lights in a roof yeah we call that the uh the acne of the ceiling but in here apparently we call
it the eternal swiss cheese ceiling you see that all right okay yeah it looks awful doesn't it yeah
and it yeah no grid iron gone on there we've gone for random splattering's yeah now that seems
uh some good tips in there we'll come back to that later i think i'm nearly boiled
that's that one definitely that's the uh builders one you know where near are you
you can hear mine rumbling through the woodwork don't you look is that there's a rumble yeah no
that is it's getting there this is talking to getting there yeah we'll be hearing a
clicking on the moment when we as mine clicks off there we go three minutes 30
okay i mean you're in a tea bag have you got any tea bags oh listen
no it's boiling there's steam coming out of it yes i'll just make that three minutes 43.
this is turning out better than i thought i'm just uh let's see oh
oh i think i won there got a race was it why do i lose all the races i can't even win a kettle race
for our next test we're going to see how long it takes to boil a full capacity of the kettle which
is 0.8 liters so we're going to use that with tap water which even in the warm Yorkshire conditions
should be a little bit cooler than that 20 degree C we saw in the bottle wow fill that up accurately
a couple of fresh batteries going in now this isn't to give me an opportunity to suggest that
you've drained the previous ones like we did in the coffee machine that we reviewed from Makita so
you're in and you're going to boil that water so let's just have a look at the battery indicators
now they are fully charged batteries but as soon as you put the power on this has drawn
720 watts into the kettle so i think it drags down the voltage on the battery so we'll see what
they're like when the kettle is fully boiled okay just looking down here i did notice if you had a
little accident earlier on we'll come back to that i'm going to see if that actually works when it's
boiled but uh don't mention my accident yet Gary okay so we have a look at uh my builders tea set
i'm a valiant second so there we go yeah we'll see obviously it did because this is 720 watts
the kettle is 600 watts which obviously would be a little bit slow but this builder's t-box quite
handy substantially cheaper than the Makita cattle which doesn't come with batteries or a charger
the kettle can sit in there lovely as well yeah got space for the kettle you've got some other
accessories that you can put in the tea carrier yes um and it comes fully loaded as well this is
how it came yes everything was in there off and running you were yeah and two cups two cups yeah
okay two cups in there as well so and the spoon the spoon's lovely i mean you probably can't
appreciate that that's that's like black that is gorgeous that is black is that implying you're
not going to change the probably found the problem with the cups though Gary oh i did so the cups are
no actually not a problem with the cup so let's correct you there yeah they're left-handed biased
if you want to advertise them so i'm left-handed so if i want to the builder's team okay
you're right-handed yeah you can't advertise anything so you're limited in the advertising
world for this kind of mug and if i just to prove the point if i hold it in my right hand
you can see yeah it's not universal all right that's a problem it does come with this little
towel here so i can mark the brow down there well i've cleaner glasses i think from the
disaster you've had maybe age maybe we're talking about not having the control you once had young
man maybe that was for you the builder's tee box as well actually they sent us two okay and
this is this is the trucker's tee box okay so that suggests maybe it's plugged into some sort of uh
lighterish sort of element is it is that right and coffee making kit
okay so this is and it suggests on here this would take uh 12 or 24 volts obviously you'd expect that
on a truck so definitely for the truck there and it will boil 30 minutes at 12 volts quite a while
yeah and 16 minutes at 24 volts so okay bother for the truck a little bit they'll be driving
they'd be doing that as they're driving along i'm not suggesting you do that before even working
cracked open have a look yeah just lovely and it's very tactile isn't it i do like all this
sort of stuff now let's see so they uh are they for leftover people only let's have a look yeah so
i would suggest yeah no good to you yeah brilliant for left-handed people truckers t-box it is um
yeah so this is a slightly different fly-in
yeah 30 minutes so i mean that's a long time isn't it but i think that will be insulated in there
as well yeah that's insulated so you could boil that and just keep that by yourself like a flask
and and a kettle in one so hold cold stuff and keep it cold for you as well it might do okay
and then we've got a lead that goes with that as well let's just see if this is fully loaded it
will be and it only comes with one cup yeah fully loaded i'll remember that actually yes absolutely
yeah all right let's move that to one side so meanwhile we're good few minutes in i'll just
do you want to sneak peek in there see if we've got any questions yeah any little bubbling areas
yeah a few little bubbles we've got bubbles a little bit of a little bit
of steam coming off the top as well while that's boiling let's have a look at some
of the other features on the kettle the first one is there is a tilt switch so if i
was to set this away and knock the kettle over it switches off because underneath here there
is this little contact switch there so that's a that's a great feature another feature which
we think was to lock the spout uh and i think this is uh possibly a little bit of a letdown
i can i thought that would stop water coming out it does allow still some water out um and that's
probably why it looks wet on the bench and around my feet because we've had a few attempts at this
but then when i push this button down we get the full floor so it uh stops water but not all of it
there's a nice cup of tea there and to release the lid there's these two uh two two latches at the
side open the lid up and there's a filter in there as well so i'm not sure it depends on what your
water quality is like so i'm trying to do this with boiling steam coming at you there's about
there and you can see we can remove that if we needed to clean the filter
the kettle itself at once above is cool to touch so this will you can obviously boil it and then
it will keep the water hot for some time so open a little bit like a thermo flask yeah so i've got i
like mine i think it's at the price it needs to be and somebody's going to say well what if there's
no power on site well i'd like to get in front of that before you go there how are you going to
charge those batteries up when you've used it if there's no power on site you'll be limited to the
number of beverages you can make and that takes me back to mine there's nothing stopping me boiling
a cattle at home and obviously bringing into a thermos flask and making myself a tea or a coffee
ah it works for both of us this does almost doesn't it no no no no no so i've got the Power
Oak that we've looked at previously and this has it'll put out 300 watts of power on the AC socket
you said yours was 700 something so it won't work yeah that's just the charge of batteries
so i've plugged my battery chargers in there and i can charge my batteries listen i just just want
to say for the record and it's getting a little expensive now isn't it so one of these Power Oaks
to come along along with you with your kettle and your two batteries in your charger yeah i'm
looking for something that has a 13 amp plug top attached to it in order to connect it to the mains
yeah yeah you're doing all right on that yeah yeah obviously this probably is for yeah if you're a
Makita user and uh some people suggest plumbers uh are more likely to be Makita users uh you'd have
the batteries and you'd have the charger if you're going in from the ground up yeah it happens all
the time now on these tools it's body only which means it doesn't come with a charger it doesn't
come with the batteries and yeah you'd have to obviously buy the Power Oak there to go with that
down here but the Power Oak it's good for the electrician to keep your customers wi-fi router
on while you're re-wiring yes okay so that sounds like it's it's well underway now that shouldn't
be too long if we use the experience once we heard it last time yeah we obviously heard
mine raw into action a lot earlier yeah obviously just uh that fell a little bit short at the end
of the Dug the plug let's have a look at this mug this got sent into us i do like a mug anyone send
me a mug yeah so we've been plugged by Doug the plug look at that there we go yes and you've got
your broken Broadie over there yeah yeah you've got my uh Lee Brodie mug i would just like say
for the record though he's been adapted so you can just slide your hand in and lock it into position
okay yeah so we're drinking that one so you're nearly there for that spoon uh yes
yeah not a spoon i'm not going to cause horrendous controversy put the milk in already we did that
okay so we're nearly there for boiling yeah looking good so if you press those battery buttons
now they would be really low wouldn't they yeah let's have a look well we can do a third yeah so
yeah but that's not that's what we'll have to see what the recovery uh the recovery shots like when
the kettle's finished boiling which is is getting there there's a lot of racket coming out of there
okay so we're back in for the temperature suggest for more days at school that's uh
boiling temperature i'll suggest our current needs calibrating it's over 100 degrees c or we're just
so high up does the temperature go up or down let's have a final look at those batteries let's
see yeah now it's switched off the back of the capacitor i would suggest the batteries are a
little warm as well just have a little look at the old indicator on the side so i suggest half
capacity so you probably could repeat the process again if they were about fully charged it says in
the instructions it will boil 1.1 litres of water on two four amp hour batteries okay but again
that depends on the temperature you start with with the water yeah and uh yeah i guess there
is only one type of water well i'm impressed with this battery powered cable it produces a
fantastic cup of tea however if freshly brewed coffee is more your thing check out this review