Abstract: In a method for operating an electric device, which includes a first storage battery pack, a second storage battery pack and an electrical load, no more than one storage battery pack is discharged at any given time to operate the load. In the process, the storage battery pack to be discharged is selected as a function of a temperature of the first storage battery pack and a temperature of the second storage battery pack and/or as a function of an internal resistance of the first storage battery pack and an internal resistance of the second storage battery pack.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical appliance, in particular a hand-held power tool, having an appliance housing, a circuitry substrate that is situated in the appliance housing and equipped with components, and sealing elements for preventing the influx of dirt into the region of the circuitry substrate. According to the invention, the sealing elements seal a subregion of the circuitry substrate off from other regions inside the appliance housing.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a circuit arrangement, having a power circuit and a control circuit, in which the power circuit with the control circuit is activatable and deactivatable, and the power circuit is activatable only when the power circuit is switched on and is deactivatable only as long as the power circuit is switched on. The present invention further relates to a switch device, which includes an actuator as well as a first switch for switching a power circuit and a second switch for switch a control circuit of a circuit arrangement, in which the first switch and the second switch are switchable by actuation of the actuator, and the second switch is switchable only when the first switch is switched.