Fastener driving tool

A setting tool for driving fastening elements into a substrate, comprising a holder for holding a fastening element;

• a drive in element for transferring a fastening element held in the holder into the substrate along a setting axis by a setting energy Ekin;
• and, a drive for driving the drive-in element toward the fastening element along the setting axis, wherein the drive comprises an electrical capacitor, a squirrel-cage rotor arranged on the drive-in element, and an excitation coil;
• wherein current flows through the excitation coil during discharge of the electrical capacitor and generates a magnetic field that accelerates the drive-in element toward the fastening element, wherein a current intensity Acoil of the current flowing through the excitation coil during the discharge of the electrical capacitor has a time profile with a rising edge, a maximum current intensity Amax and a falling edge, wherein the current intensity Acoil rises during a current rise time Δtrise from 0.1 times to 0.8 times the maximum current intensity Amax and during an impact time Δtimpact is more than 0.5 times the maximum current intensity Amax but not greater than the maximum current intensity Amax, and wherein the current rise time Δtrise is at least 0.020 ms and at most 0.275 ms and/or the impact time Δtimpact is at least 0.15 ms and at most 2.0 ms.