Tutorials & FAQs · 1:08
FAQ: Will GRIT Make My Home Shop Safer?
Learn how GRIT's tool access control and dust management features improve safety in home workshops.
What this video covers
Learn how GRIT's tool access control and dust management features improve safety in home workshops.
Published 2023-04-25. Runtime: 1:08.
Continue with GRIT
Use the related Solution page for product options, retrofit details, and the next step for your shop.
Video guide
Key points and full transcript
Scan the main points and chapter list, or open the complete transcript below.
Key takeaways
- GRIT can cut tool power or schedule the entire shop to lock at the end of the day.
- Shop-wide and individual-tool locks help prevent unauthorized or accidental use.
- The system was inspired by a close call involving an unattended child and a planer.
Chapters
- Control power to dangerous tools
- Protect a home shop
- The safety story behind GRIT
- Lock the shop or individual tools
Read the full transcript13 timecoded passages
This machine-generated transcript was reviewed and lightly edited for product names, technical terms, and readability.
These are big, dangerous tools. The ability to cut the power or to program that all of the tools lock at the end of the day. People that are coming in and out of your shop, if you have children in your home, it's a really powerful piece of technology that you can add to your home very, very easily. That's actually one of the reasons that GRIT exists. The creator of GRIT was working in his home shop when his five-year-old son wandered out into the garage and saw the big button on the planer and fired it up.
The owner was able to turn around, turn it off. Nobody was injured, but I know that not everybody is that lucky. You can lock and unlock your entire shop. You can absolutely lock and unlock individual tools. You have a lot of control over your shop in ways that you wouldn't otherwise without GRIT.
Tutorials & FAQs · 1:08
FAQ: Will GRIT Make My Home Shop Safer?
Learn how GRIT's tool access control and dust management features improve safety in home workshops.
What this video covers
Learn how GRIT's tool access control and dust management features improve safety in home workshops.
Published 2023-04-25. Runtime: 1:08.
Continue with GRIT
Use the related Solution page for product options, retrofit details, and the next step for your shop.
Video guide
Key points and full transcript
Scan the main points and chapter list, or open the complete transcript below.
Key takeaways
- GRIT can cut tool power or schedule the entire shop to lock at the end of the day.
- Shop-wide and individual-tool locks help prevent unauthorized or accidental use.
- The system was inspired by a close call involving an unattended child and a planer.
Chapters
- Control power to dangerous tools
- Protect a home shop
- The safety story behind GRIT
- Lock the shop or individual tools
Read the full transcript13 timecoded passages
This machine-generated transcript was reviewed and lightly edited for product names, technical terms, and readability.
These are big, dangerous tools. The ability to cut the power or to program that all of the tools lock at the end of the day. People that are coming in and out of your shop, if you have children in your home, it's a really powerful piece of technology that you can add to your home very, very easily. That's actually one of the reasons that GRIT exists. The creator of GRIT was working in his home shop when his five-year-old son wandered out into the garage and saw the big button on the planer and fired it up.
The owner was able to turn around, turn it off. Nobody was injured, but I know that not everybody is that lucky. You can lock and unlock your entire shop. You can absolutely lock and unlock individual tools. You have a lot of control over your shop in ways that you wouldn't otherwise without GRIT.