They should also standardize laptop power adapters and batteries. I'm a repair tech and it's a pain. Also the screws that they use. All desktop computers use the same screws, why not laptops? It just makes sense.
Laptops are at least going in the right direction. Many new models already charge with the usb-c port. As for the batteries, that is probably not going to happen anytime soon as the designs are so different from model to model.
"We managed" I think that was the evil government (in this case the EU), which told the tech companies: "get your act together and create a common standard or we will create a law demanding it"
+ForthyPremonition 45W vs 230W is an unsolvable challenge, but charging tablets, cellphones and tech gadget ranging from "empty in an our" to "works all year" all with the same chargers work?
I spent 1/3 of my life in snow of all forms and configurations. That thing is good for one thing only: Diverting attention away from the Juicero machine you also bought last year.
When you turn the volume down when turning on loud tools.... That's the kind of attention to detail and quality editing that makes your videos great and which I really appreciate. Thank You :-)
I have you all beat when it comes to yard equipment. You see, I have a retired neighbor with a riding mower and a wife with a great ass. As soon as I hear him mowing his yard, I send her out to work on the 40 feet of flower beds she insists on having, and my lawn gets mowed as well - as if by magic. I haven't mowed my lawn in 3 years.
Grammatically you say the the wife is the neighbours :) I think the wife is yours or you have a pretty good relationship with the nieghbour's wife....either way you win
I’ve got a fleet of these at the movie theater I work for, the custodians use them to blow out all the crap from the rows that accumulates at the end of the day. I’ve had a few units for over 2 years now and both units and batteries still work great, these get charge cycled at least twice a day. Battery life is total crap if you use that turbo button but on the smooth floors we have it’s perfect to use them at low to mid power. Batteries last around 30 to 45 minutes on those settings, and when it’s dead just grab another, by the time that new battery is dead the other one should be done charging, charge time is relatively fast. I know that company has bigger batteries but I’ve always stuck with the “small” ones that come with the leaf blower. They are a bit bulky but not having to deal with extension cords anymore is a good trade. With how much use our units get every day we are pretty impressed with them so far.
I like your reaction to alarms Ian. Myself I ignore them unless they are polite and in that case I may stop but usually tell them to follow me to my truck and search my stuff as I load it. And while they are at it help load my truck with me. 😊
@@Earth-Apple I loved the ego blower, so I bought a matching weed eater, then chainsaw. They all work pretty good, although the chainsaw throws the chain off easy.
Yep, I have the original model of the blower. I only use it for quick jobs when I don't need or feel like firing up the big Stihl BR 600. Its worked fine for several years. More power than any other battery blower I've tried. Good as a corded blower, nope, but more convenient. Good as the Stihl, hell no, but more convenient.
I have the hedge trimmer, chainsaw, and blower. I also have a stihl battery power pruner that I now use instead of the stihl gas powered power pruner that I have had for years. Doubt I will ever use the gas model again the battery powerd pruner is that much superior, the battery last probably the equivalent of three tanks of gas. I am happy with the blower (newer model) as I am the rest. These are much quieter and since I use them in Multifamily environment it is much appreciated. I still am hanging on to my little wonder and BR 600 but they are heavy and heavy duty. Don't always need a sledge hammer to drive a finish nail.
Wal-Mart has recently changed their security policy. They posted a yellow vested "security guard" at the entrances checking all receipts as people leave. Well not all, it seems to be whenever something isn't bagged; e.g. electronics too large for a bag or you're a youth looking suspicious etc. I really doubt they would try to do anything if you said "no thanks" even with these changes since they resulted from an "undercover" security guard killing a guy in the parking lot after he walked out with a cart full of DVDs. While detaining him, he suffocated; three people were charged with mans-laughter and Wal-Mart issued the yellow vests. Happened in Lakeland Florida if I remember correctly.
MyBrothersKeeper I can attest that through curious testing I learned back in my thefting days all the stores in my area that had working security alarm gate things and which ones didnt, had to survive somehow and I never got caught lol, that was years ago and I'm glad I got out of that before I hurt myself or others
Walmart lots security footage of common theft nowadays. They wait until the get a substantial enough amount of cash and figure out exactly who you are and then just hand footage to local law enforcement. Mainly because the teenager that stole $50 worth of stuff isn't enough to get police to go arrest someone if they aren't already there.
The Power settings are quite useful if you want to use this kind of tool for other applications. For example, I used similar products to sort out leaves and twigs from blueberries and lingonberries by sending them through a pipe with opposing air stream, cathing and removing the debris. If it's not adjustable in that case, I would have to re-pick the berries from the neighbors lawn, and he's well over a quarter mile away.
It just occurred to me how brilliant AvE is. If had set up a video camera every time I took something apart a lot more stuff would have went back together with all of the parts in it.
I was setting off alarm bells in every fucking store i went in for a few months, couldn't for the life of me figure out what the what was going on, had to deal with mall security a couple of times, turn my stockings inside out, that sorta thing, came to a point where i would avoid going into a shop that had those scanner things next to checkout. One evening was looking for something in my wallet, found one of those fucking magnetic strips INSIDE THE LINING. Hated the jeezless thigs with a passion since.
Just go find an unused register and slide your wallet around on the demagnetizing area - you'll hear a faint beep or click, you're now fixed, or at least your wallet is. xD
Had a regular at the parts store I used to work at have this happen to him. By the second time he handed me his wallet, keys and everything and I just held them next to the demagnetizer for him, no more issues after that.
Had something similar happen, only it was with a new pair of work boots I bought. Somehow one of those magnet strips ended up inside it and I couldnt figure out for weeks why I'd trip those alarms every time I walked in or out of walmart lol
if it´s clothings or whatever non metal(alloy) put it in a microwave for a few seconds and all whats left is a useless plastic stripe, as the windings of that IFID electronics thing inside are toast, so nothing will happen in the future when you walk through a detector again.
"...up to 75 minutes..." Does that include foreplay (unwrapping, filling her up etc.)? I don't want to begrudge another man a little creative licence about how long events should be expected to proceed.
it´s more like what the industry cailm about PMPO...a 3watt lookalike speaker is rated 450W PMPO...i always think....yea, i wanna hook this thing up to one of my PA amps and see if it could take at least 300Watt RMS for more than a few seconds...;)
If you had half a brain you’d realise that the up to 75mins run time is in low speed not boost. It clearly says in the booklets and catalogs 75mins low, 22mins high, 10mins boost. He had it glued down on boost.
Have this same blower and battery. Still going strong after several years of weekly use. Impressed enough I bought the hedge trimmers with the up to 1" cut and they are beast. Very happy with all of the EGO products I own so far. We don't all own acres of land. I can blow my whole property inside of 5 minutes. The same battery several years old went in the hedge trimmer and cut about 100ft taking a very heavy cut in one charge.
That fan looks like something right from the RC electric ducted fan industry...most RC brushless motors have the magnets rotate around the windings as well, and theres billions of them out there...that particular one looks about the same size as on my flying wing, will do around 100mph on a 3 cell lipo pack.
Considering how much an EDF of that size usually costs, if you were able to find one of these blowers used and on the cheap, might be worth looking into...at 56v, that thing must be RPM'ing pretty good, even if the motor is a low KV.
Wait, that waxy phase-change stuff might be for temperature. When the cells heat up, they melt the wax, but while its melting the wax, the temperature of the wax is constant. The latent heat of fusion needs to be put into the wax before the temperature can rise more. It's like ice in water always being 0C when the ice is melting, but this is at a higher temp. Cody Don did a neat video about this phase change having more energy when he filled a hot water bottle with paraffin wax. He showed that it contained a bit more energy than just the water because of the phase change.
Kyle Ikeda hmm. Get a big enough one, reverse the wiring on the motor and yeah you probably could. It'd be massively impractical and huge pain but eventually you could probably get the deed done. Or get a big ducted fan and build your own blower. Though by the time you paid for all the bits you'd be better off just buying a normal blower.
I've got a similar model and yes 8 minutes is about right, but it's great for blowing the clippings off the sidewalks. Have the trimmer too and with two batteries it's not bad. they charge in about 30 min.
the husqavarna blower i've used had that anti-static hand shocker on the handle as well. thing is though, if you get charged up to the voltage of the blower, you're gonna get a shock the next time you touch something at earth voltage. they're just delaying the shock so you don't blame it on their blower.
wolfy9005 Yeah, modern age shite kills us.. Good ol' leather! But creepage is sometimes enough for static to dissapate. Work mats for ESD protection are also rubber (or some synthetic rubber analog) with a "conductive" backing in the high megaohms
Lol hi, I found your channel today and have watched several videos, and I gotta say I love watching your videos! Your funny, helpful, informative and I love watching you take things apart! I’ll be a regular watcher of your videos now. 😊 have a good one!
The reason Retail Employees don't challenge customers when the alarm bells go off is because we get paid about 25 cents for every dollar's worth of work we do. Anything above a smile and "have a nice day" is above our pay grade.
Wild guess: the wax is supposed to melt as a temperature control mechanism and the stuff whats mixed in is supposed to keep the wax crap ON the battery when its wet. The idea being that the heat of fusion of the wax will hold the temp steady while the wax is melting. o course, some of that heat will just go right back in the battery when the wax freezes...probly won't matter though because the batter isn't being used if its colder than the wax stuff.
Just like they had on the lunar rover. When the wax melted, the astronauts would stop the rover, open the battery compartment lid and let the wax cool off and solidify by radiating the built-up heat away.
+Wectum Wecker Thank you for the link. I had not heard of "Phase Change Materials for Thermal Management of Li-Ion Batteries" before but it makes a lot of sense to me. The paper concerns a major improvement by adding graphene which I assume the Samsung cells in the EGO did not have.
Think of boiling water. 100% of the energy of heat is dedicated to changing the phase rather than elevating the temperature further. By circulating a cell with something that has a phase change at a temperature within the working temperature of the cell chemistry, it forces heat from internal resistance to be transferred into that material without elevating the temperature until 100% of the phase change material has converted. This, of course, it dependent on its heat capacity - but in a high drain device, this little tweak may keep the high "C" rating of a cell longer before needing to be dialed back to prevent thermal runaway.
Ive had a couple of Ego products for a few years now, Their mower, blower, and string trimmer and they have worked flawlessly for me. Best home gammer lawn equipment I have ever bought. Super quiet and no messing with gas or oil at the house any more. that stuff all stays in my shop down the street now.
I have no idea what you’re talking about as I’m the last thing from a workshop hobbyist, but I’ve been addicted to your videos. It’s awesome to see someone so passionate about their hobby, it makes it much more entertaining to watch. Keep up the videos and never sell out!!
I have the snowblower and lawn mower. Good stuff. I had something go goofy with the lawn mower where it would run crazy fast as it warmed up. Something in the computer, they sent me a brand new mower, 2 days, no questions asked. Have the old one for spare parts.
I worked at a stem summer camp for kids and we used one of these as the central fan to keep the skirts inflated on a personal hovercraft device... that turbo button really makes you run for the ear hole pluggers!
I've used one of these in the past. Honestly I think there is a negative bias here. Considering the price of this tool compared to any other brand you just can go wrong. The battery life is significantly better than he makes it out to be as well. You dont need turbo mode for blowing leaves which is what most people use it for. Its simply too much power. We generally run around 3/4 to full power for most things and turbo only when you get to a large pile of leaves. Like it or not this is about as good as it gets for an electric blower and I personally won't be going back to gas.
I don't have the blower, but I absolutely love both my Mower and weed eater. They are both extremely powerful and I mow both my front and back yard between three and four times on a charge.
The Fred Penner word of the day is...... Recalcitrant. Word bird! I freakin love it. Ode to AvE Chirps words like an English prof Trying to get the parts off Can't find the right driver Proceeds to swear like a miner
I bought one of these on a sale a year or so ago at Lowe's. Love it. Performs exceptionally well. Perfect for clearing snow. You can clear the car in the morning, toss it in the car, and clear the car again to go home. Very happy with mine. The variable speed and optional turbo features are actually useful. Lowest speed around the porch and flower beds so I don't tear up the wives stuff. Then I kick the turbo in for blowing off the sidewalk after mowing the lawn. You definitely don't want it on turbo all the time. Also they do make lawnmowers and other tools that use these batteries.
I also have one of these and came to exactly the same conclusion. I mainly use it for breaking up clumps of grass after mowing and light duty debris clearing. Tried to move leaves with it last autumn and got about 50 square feet clear before both batteries were toast 20 minutes later. I have the string trimmer from them as well, and that does a fantastic job, and can get the whole yard trimmed on a single battery most of the time. 0.6 acre for reference.
Battery life is the whole reason for having two speeds. Like AVE says, who needs "turbo"? Only the engineer figuring the battery life. Modern flash lights piss me off for the same reason ("runs for 20 hours!"). The on switch has a high and low beam, and maybe a strobe function. I just want to turn the light on and off. Edit: I should have said that the turbo switch (and flash light modes) were designed by a battery engineer with a advertising guy standing over his shoulder. I can see it now, Ad guy "Wow that is powerful! How long will it run?" Enginerd, "Nine minutes." Ad guy, "How about we call that 'turbo' and slow it way down the rest of the time..."
The phase change material is a mixture of paraffin, graphite and mica in proprietary mixture. The paraffin sucks up a TON of energy when it changes phases, and liquid paraffin has a lot more thermal conductivity.
8 minutes. That explains why there is a potentiometer and a turbo button. Those are the only way to get "up to 75 minutes" out of the battery. And the "phase change" battery thingamabob is probably just for thermal management, like the batteries on the lunar rover: melting the wax robs heat from the batteries, cooling them. After some time with the motor off and no load on the batteries, they cool down, letting the wax re-solidify.
It doesn'r rob the batteries of heat. The material has a high heat of fusion so it takes a lot more heat (Joules) to change the temperature a fraction of a degree. In essence; it stabilises the temperature of the battery at the melting point of the material; until all the material has melted.
We got vacuums at work specifically designed to suck jet fuel and purging fluid out of the tanks and fittings. They’re essentially a 55 gallon drum on wheels with a pneumatic Venturi vacuum on the lid and a filter element on the exhaust. The vacuums have to not only be grounded to the aircraft, but they also have to be grounded to earth.
Bet this working fella only paid a Pavarotti. It is literally a minutes walk from the main station, but that might add a little frisson www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/15/google-street-view-handjob_n_2884073.html?slideshow=true#gallery/286405/1
To comment on what you were saying about the security of products; you are right, in all of those kinds of stores employees are NOT ALLOWED to even acuse someone for stealing. Even when it's as obvious as someone going around putting flashlights and bits in their pockets.
combos16 i can attest to this. We watched some emo kid walk out of he store with a razor knife and couldnt say a word to him all that we are allowed to do by policy is follow the person around. Nothing more. You could walk out the front door with thousand dollar tools and we wouldnt be allowed to say a word to you... But they still take it ""seriously""
I have a kitchen filled with SERIOUSLY sharp things (got a WW2 German dagger somewhere, that my dad liberated), lots of blunt instruments, cars, bleach, acids etc. I have the means to do harm. I'm a fucking monster - the trail of dead behind me is appalling.
I have this blower and their trimmer. Both work great. I too always use the turbo button and it goes through the battery pretty quick. What sold me was a free extra battery with each tool. Anyhow, I like the blower. As a bonus it does a great job of blow drying my car after washing.
When I am on my deathbed one of my wishes is this man sitting by me while I take my last breath. I can listen to this voice all day long. It is hard to explain. it is like It puts me in life and time blown by the wind. Thank you for being who you are.
I enjoy the videos... thanks for the eninerding view point. The difference between a blade and vane: Blades move... vanes are stationary and redirect the gas into the blade or redirect flow. Blades in a compressor (blower) transfer energy from the blade to the gas. Blades in a turbine (or turbo) transfers energy from the gas to the blade... that is, gas energy is trasfered from the gas to the blade to produce blade motion to drive a shaft to power the compressor or other device. Nothing but high tech windmills and fans.
I have the Milwaukee flavor of this - I already have a ton of batteries so it made sense to your point. Works great even for light yard work. Along the lines of clearing the sand and leaves from the walkway and clearly not moving a trees worth of leaves from the lot. Right tool for the right job, and quick and easy - just grab and go. And yeah, works pretty good on that light fluffy snow on the car and tractor too!
WALK? I RUN! If that alarm goes off for me, I start running. I know I paid, so I want to look guilty as possible and have some fun with it. If you work security in my neck of the woods, you had better lace up your runnin' shoes and be in good shape pal.
There was a security girl at a K mart when I worked in the shop who knew a guy was stealing parts but knew he was likely to punch her in the face if confronted so she just looked the other way. She was soon replaced by a guy we called Luke Floorwalker who could be seen chasing a mouse with a pellet rifle during store hours. Ya gets what ya pays for.
Used to drive us nuts when I did my time in hell in Borders books, sports store in the same strip would fail to detag or even deactivate tags on stuff, so the alarms were constantly going off, detagger / deactivater was by our front door so we used to just deactivate stuff for folk who came in, save them hearing alarms all day long. Dundee though...people just sprint even when the security guy has a detagger on him and is a pace away...
same here, we have a bunch of women in the local walmart as greeters and the local area is full of hood wanna be gansters. you never know when one of them is carrying
I own this tool as well as EGO's mower, edger and weed eater. They work really well. I have a smaller yard, but I can put the 5 AH battery in my mower, do the front/back, weed eating, edging and blowing almost all on one battery. The battery has never been a problem, I have two 5 AH batteries and 1 of the 2 AH batteries and it charges faster than they deplete. If I have to swap them out it's just a quick change. The tools are light weight and require no oil, fuel, air filters, spark plugs. They are much quieter than gas and with no fumes. My only complaint is there's no striper for the mower. The mower has a lot of nice features, folds up for storage, has thicker/nicer rails with quick release lever for folding it up and not those spinning bullshit tighteners on most mowers. Oh yeah sometimes you want non-turbo, when you're trying to blow some mulch from the drive back to the flower bed etc.. you don't want to over do it and blow mulch away from where it's supposed to be, but otherwise turbo a lot of the time.
I work in fuel testing, maintenance, and construction. For evacuating vapor from fuel tanks we use metal venturis that are powered by an air compressor trailer. Not sure if the metal venturi being screwed into the metal bung on the tank grounds it enough to negate the static caused by the moving air but we triple wash the tanks first. Once we're done venting the tank this way, normally the lel meter is reading 0 but we throw in a certain amount of dry ice just before pulling the tank to further insure an inert atmosphere.
Here is my non paid for non bias review of these blowers. ..after using these things for the last 2 1/2 years at work I can say they are pretty reliable and pretty tough. They withstand being wet and droped,throwin in and out of a truck bed and generally just handled roughly. Only complaint is that charge check button on the back. If you don't pull the battery from the charger directly and check the button it might show green but get a minute or two worth of use and it can go dead. It should have a light that shoes bars in relation with the charge. I'd give it a solid 4 1/4 stars. Ahah
I have two chargers for my batteries. The larger one has the charging light bars that I believe you were talking about. I think it was called the ego turbo charger or something like that.
First time I have watched one of your vijeos after visiting my neighbour and partaking in an excessive number of Australian beers. Makes for good viewing even half pissed!! :D
When I set off the security alarm I go to the nearest wall raise my hands and yell HANDS UP DON'T SHOOT. Usually, everyone gets a good laugh and they just say leave.
I have an Ego weed whacker and lawn mower. Both have worked great over the past year and a bit, and the batteries have gone through 2 canadian winters in the garage just fine. Highly recommend this brand
We had a battery powered blower when I worked grounds at a golf course. It was only used by the guy who went around first thing in the morning to move the holes. It was perfect because it was light enough to easially carry it with hole digger and the hammer and the battery was good enough because you only used it to blow the little clumps of sand you end up leaving on the green which only took 5 or 10 seconds
My roomate in TX came home with the EGO LAWNMOWER and String trimmer. For 1/4 acre, the lawnmower would eat up TWO BATTERIES. You'd have to hot swap 'em just to get the job done in one go. But the string trimmer, surprisingly good. Maybe I've just grown up with tempermental two strokes but the thing whipped up to speed and I could do the fence, patio, and walkways front and back without any perceptible slowdown. Shocking.
It seems like the "phase change technology" in the batteries is there to help absorb heat from the cells as they charge/discharge at high current. It would be interesting to look at those cells (mangled and unmangled) with an IR camera after being fed a hot supper. Mr. Predicto thinks that one mangled cell will fail long before the rest of the pack.
We played with phase change (thermal buffering) material from these guys... As you say, wax and graphite: www.allcelltech.com/index.php/about-us/allcell-overview
@@broken1965 it works, its usually parrafin wax or something mixed with their special herbs and spices. satellites use similar tech. its basically a thermal capacitor
Ego batteries now run on the following devices; Leaf blower String trimmer Hedge trimmer Chainsaw The new ego generator Lawn mower Snow blower Power inverter (ego) They have a line of string trimmers that takes multiple attatchments That is why I bought the combo kit Plus the battery has heat dissipating vents on the surface. Even with all of this I still rock out with my Milwaukee and makita.
I have the EGO lawn mower, the hedge trimmer, the blower, the chainsaw and the weed eater. I have 5 batteries and the quick charger (as well as three others that came with each tool). It's only for home use and much quieter than a gas powered device. And, yeah, they don't last long which is why I have so many batteries. Still, no carburetor or gas or oil to think about. When one battery runs out, I just grab the next one and keep going - no gas can involved. I'm a happy camper with these EGO tools. Honest review here, really.
The Runtime isn't bad on most of the tools except the leaf blower that tool just eats battery life. It's super convenient for the lawn size I have though
They now have a multi head attachment trimmer system but originally only a string trimmer was offered. Not the biggest fan of the String Trimmer I have its the original only one speed no variable and its a pain to load the string.
I have a Kobalt battery-op mower. It works pretty well for my ~0.25 acre yard. Came with 2 batteries; generally 1 is good for the front, the other will take care of the back. Going on its 4th season, it's really not bad. Almost as good as my previous Honda gas mower...almost.
I have the older NON self-propelled model. I mow about 3k square feet. Dry grass, with the grass bag, I can do the whole yard with about 30-40% of battery left. I REALLY have to hit HIGH or wet grass to bog it down. This is with the STOCK included battery. You can but a battery that is 2-2.5x the capacity. It also weighs HALF what a regular mower does due to its plastic construction...Makes it easy to lift and move around and RUST FREE. It also charges quite fast. I was impressed enough to get the EGO hedge clippers too, also very happy with them. I have a really nice 2C trimmer, so I'll skip getting that. Considering the snow blower for my dad, whos getting up in years and this would be MUCH easier for him.
Based on my usage, if your grass is AVERAGE thickness and DRY. You could do it in one full charge. If for some reason mine dies part way through because I didnt charge it when done last or I used it in another tool, I use the time to take a break, get a drink and 15 min later its juiced plenty to finish. I would buy it again. The NEW model is self propelled. I would expect that to lower run time UNLESS they upped the battery to compensate.
I bought a jacket and they did not remove the security tag. I was setting off alarms for the next two months until I found and removed the tag. No one ever stopped me or even tried.
I have one of these and love it. Works great for cleaning out the garage, porches, clippings and crap that accumulates around the walkways and drying the car. Still have the gas blow job for extended heavy duty blow jobs. Lower power works great for most blow jobs, no need to turbo everything. Remember a slower blow job can be just as good as a fast one.
Glad I wasn't the only one that noticed all the Dyson V10 vacuum reviews coming out at the same time. Actually you're the first person I thought of when I saw them all coming out.
I have run a Ego blower, trimmer and mower for 3 years with no failures and been quite pleased, bought the blower first because I was skeptical of the plastic monster but then bought the others.
What would it do to the price and the weight to go with 30% glass filled nylon? Sure, it would be more durable, but are they having problems with them breaking now? These are rhetorical questions, but as an owner of several EGO tools (mower, snow blower, and weed eater), so far I've been pretty happy. Sure, I wish they felt more sturdy but they do get the job done. If I had a much larger yard, or lived where I got more snow (Northern Utah) I might go with something a bit more spendy and gas-powered, but these do what I need them two. I guess another question is, "who's the target customer?"
Nice rant paid EGO shill. "What would it do to the price and the weight to go with 30% glass filled nylon?" The price ? Nothing at all...the weight ? Minimal on that quantity of plastik !
I use this tool to clear out debris out of my trailer, that is commercial 53' trailer and it works like a charm....beats the broom. Glad to see it on your channel.
First, Love your channel. Been watching for years. Second wanted to add my two tits on this one. I don't see myself getting a blower (I got me a ball and chain and she chooches just fine). But I do think there is a place for this type of tool. I bought the electric mower from ego a year back, and she is a banger. Better then any gas mower I've owned, and I've own a fair few. I got a long grassed half acre. Mostly cause-in I don't mow it often enough. Electric was the way to go for me. I used to love my gas powered hand drill but I had to give that up too. Keep up the Great Videos!!
I've got the lawn mower and weed whacker. For my little lawn, work great. The guy at work blows out a 1/3 acre parking lot with no problems. As you said, won't replace proper lawn tools; but, they are cleaner and a lot less hassle. (So far) Love your vids.
Those EAS tags are 99% deterrent. (Electronic Article Surveillance) and a major pain right in the dick. It's difficult to quantify the savings of using the system as a deterrent, especially since the cost (per item) is covered completely by the manufacturer. The only cost the retailer has to eat is the initial installation of the system, and maintenance costs. Most of the maintenance is free for generally 10-15 years depending on the warranty your company negotiated. So there's really no incentive to stop using the system for the retailer, which in turn makes it impossible to tell if it's net benefit.
kght222 Not saying you're wrong and your system for sure works (you work there and know better than me), but In my experience the tags attached to keys get knocked around, and/or left laying on registers so they end up getting demagnetized and not setting the alarm off to remind the employee not to take the keys home.
Well put! A friend of mine opened a store here in Norway, and the cost of installation was so high for his single setup, so he went online to find a cheaper option, and he found. And China was her name. No service agreement of course, but as you say, 99% deterrent.
I used to theft back in my hoodlum days right across the street from a police station (yes I was cocky) and I found I could take as much as I could carry and not get caught because the stores security gate things at the doors didn't actually do anything
The homeless despot is actually not repairing them as they break. All the warranties on the systems expired. Plus they neutered their security department, it’s a free for all there.
I have used the Ego brand push mower, weed wacker and leaf blower for 2-3 years and they have been absolutely mind blowing great. The blower in your video that you are reviewing isn't the same style I have used.
Love your videos and take on life. In regards to static build up I find it very interesting in the winter when pushing around the shopping cart (Target carts especially), where my fingers span the plastic handle and barely touch the metal frame, I can feel constant shock pulses. Kind of like chewing on a piece of aluminum foil.
It costs more than other batteries with the same number of cells and power, and can't be used on as many other tools. The fact that it's 56V means nothing. It's just a stupick overpriced gimmick battery.
its like a high tech potato gun
Challenge accepted!
already done!
you made one?
haha yeah it's on my channel, just a short clip shooting some plywood
AvE fuck yeah!
We managed to more or less standardize phone chargers, it's time to do the same for power tool batteries.
I jest green beer day. What it the holleofuck are this guy on aboot. Patricks man patricks.
They should also standardize laptop power adapters and batteries. I'm a repair tech and it's a pain. Also the screws that they use. All desktop computers use the same screws, why not laptops? It just makes sense.
Laptops are at least going in the right direction. Many new models already charge with the usb-c port. As for the batteries, that is probably not going to happen anytime soon as the designs are so different from model to model.
"We managed"
I think that was the evil government (in this case the EU), which told the tech companies: "get your act together and create a common standard or we will create a law demanding it"
+ForthyPremonition
45W vs 230W is an unsolvable challenge, but charging tablets, cellphones and tech gadget ranging from "empty in an our" to "works all year" all with the same chargers work?
I spent 1/3 of my life in snow of all forms and configurations. That thing is good for one thing only: Diverting attention away from the Juicero machine you also bought last year.
When you turn the volume down when turning on loud tools.... That's the kind of attention to detail and quality editing that makes your videos great and which I really appreciate. Thank You :-)
its auto audio leveling on the camera, nothing on his part
Until you realize it’s an automatic function and he’s still just a big bumblefuck
Compression
I have you all beat when it comes to yard equipment. You see, I have a retired neighbor with a riding mower and a wife with a great ass. As soon as I hear him mowing his yard, I send her out to work on the 40 feet of flower beds she insists on having, and my lawn gets mowed as well - as if by magic. I haven't mowed my lawn in 3 years.
That's just genius..two uses out of one object, you deserve a "that's Chooch" award for sure.
He's probably getting some beaver for that when you're not home. ..lol
@@justbe4481 bet
Be careful one day he may "mow your lawn" if you know what I mean.
Grammatically you say the the wife is the neighbours :)
I think the wife is yours or you have a pretty good relationship with the nieghbour's wife....either way you win
I’ve got a fleet of these at the movie theater I work for, the custodians use them to blow out all the crap from the rows that accumulates at the end of the day. I’ve had a few units for over 2 years now and both units and batteries still work great, these get charge cycled at least twice a day. Battery life is total crap if you use that turbo button but on the smooth floors we have it’s perfect to use them at low to mid power. Batteries last around 30 to 45 minutes on those settings, and when it’s dead just grab another, by the time that new battery is dead the other one should be done charging, charge time is relatively fast. I know that company has bigger batteries but I’ve always stuck with the “small” ones that come with the leaf blower. They are a bit bulky but not having to deal with extension cords anymore is a good trade. With how much use our units get every day we are pretty impressed with them so far.
Ave has changed the way I look at objects when you think about it that’s very profound
I swear you're like the only one on TH-cam who actually lowers the sound levels for loud ass noises. Much appreciated
I've had one of these for two years. It works perfectly. Thanks for showing me the inside of it without me having to break mine.
If the alarms go off when I leave the store I take off in a flat out run.... Looking for my use of excessive force and unlawful detention payday!
Jim Grady I know, they always have some hot twink at my Lowe's
I like your reaction to alarms Ian. Myself I ignore them unless they are polite and in that case I may stop but usually tell them to follow me to my truck and search my stuff as I load it. And while they are at it help load my truck with me. 😊
Could be hiding anything in there... or nothing.
I bet you're a hoot at a party!
wlan2 most likely sexual assault charges and nothing else 😂😂😂
Im honestly impressed with my ego lawn mower. On a single charge I can mow for a good 40 minutes which is more than enough for my front and back yard.
Same... and how quiet the mower is, we are very happy not to have to use hearing protection.
Yes, and the blower is great as well with the bigger battery.
@@Earth-Apple
I loved the ego blower, so I bought a matching weed eater, then chainsaw.
They all work pretty good, although the chainsaw throws the chain off easy.
He screwed the pooch when he bypassed the 'turbo' button. Bad review.
i have the lawn mover, blower and weed eater you dont need the turbo mode to blow leaves the lawn mower does my whole yard and still has juice left
I will say after landscaping most of my life, the string trimmer is a blessing, no carbs, mix and just as much power as echo, or stihl.
None of that is true
Hate to say it but I have the Ego lawn mower and weed eater and both have done damn nice over the past 3 years.
Yep, I have the original model of the blower. I only use it for quick jobs when I don't need or feel like firing up the big Stihl BR 600. Its worked fine for several years. More power than any other battery blower I've tried. Good as a corded blower, nope, but more convenient. Good as the Stihl, hell no, but more convenient.
if my cell phone could have an engine instead of a battery it would. I know it's not practical but it's the principal
I have the hedge trimmer, chainsaw, and blower. I also have a stihl battery power pruner that I now use instead of the stihl gas powered power pruner that I have had for years. Doubt I will ever use the gas model again the battery powerd pruner is that much superior, the battery last probably the equivalent of three tanks of gas.
I am happy with the blower (newer model) as I am the rest. These are much quieter and since I use them in Multifamily environment it is much appreciated. I still am hanging on to my little wonder and BR 600 but they are heavy and heavy duty. Don't always need a sledge hammer to drive a finish nail.
I never stop when the bell goes off. my wife was mortified once when i told the guy checking receipts at walmart "no thanks" and kept walkin.
Chris Levo yep. only honest people stop. it's security theatre.
Wal-Mart has recently changed their security policy. They posted a yellow vested "security guard" at the entrances checking all receipts as people leave. Well not all, it seems to be whenever something isn't bagged; e.g. electronics too large for a bag or you're a youth looking suspicious etc. I really doubt they would try to do anything if you said "no thanks" even with these changes since they resulted from an "undercover" security guard killing a guy in the parking lot after he walked out with a cart full of DVDs. While detaining him, he suffocated; three people were charged with mans-laughter and Wal-Mart issued the yellow vests. Happened in Lakeland Florida if I remember correctly.
MyBrothersKeeper I can attest that through curious testing I learned back in my thefting days all the stores in my area that had working security alarm gate things and which ones didnt, had to survive somehow and I never got caught lol, that was years ago and I'm glad I got out of that before I hurt myself or others
Why do you think that "only honest people stop"?
Walmart lots security footage of common theft nowadays. They wait until the get a substantial enough amount of cash and figure out exactly who you are and then just hand footage to local law enforcement. Mainly because the teenager that stole $50 worth of stuff isn't enough to get police to go arrest someone if they aren't already there.
The Power settings are quite useful if you want to use this kind of tool for other applications. For example, I used similar products to sort out leaves and twigs from blueberries and lingonberries by sending them through a pipe with opposing air stream, cathing and removing the debris. If it's not adjustable in that case, I would have to re-pick the berries from the neighbors lawn, and he's well over a quarter mile away.
It just occurred to me how brilliant AvE is. If had set up a video camera every time I took something apart a lot more stuff would have went back together with all of the parts in it.
I was setting off alarm bells in every fucking store i went in for a few months, couldn't for the life of me figure out what the what was going on, had to deal with mall security a couple of times, turn my stockings inside out, that sorta thing, came to a point where i would avoid going into a shop that had those scanner things next to checkout. One evening was looking for something in my wallet, found one of those fucking magnetic strips INSIDE THE LINING. Hated the jeezless thigs with a passion since.
Just go find an unused register and slide your wallet around on the demagnetizing area - you'll hear a faint beep or click, you're now fixed, or at least your wallet is. xD
Had a regular at the parts store I used to work at have this happen to him. By the second time he handed me his wallet, keys and everything and I just held them next to the demagnetizer for him, no more issues after that.
Had something similar happen, only it was with a new pair of work boots I bought. Somehow one of those magnet strips ended up inside it and I couldnt figure out for weeks why I'd trip those alarms every time I walked in or out of walmart lol
And so is your credit spending habit.
if it´s clothings or whatever non metal(alloy) put it in a microwave for a few seconds and all whats left is a useless plastic stripe, as the windings of that IFID electronics thing inside are toast, so nothing will happen in the future when you walk through a detector again.
"...up to 75 minutes..." Does that include foreplay (unwrapping, filling her up etc.)? I don't want to begrudge another man a little creative licence about how long events should be expected to proceed.
it´s more like what the industry cailm about PMPO...a 3watt lookalike speaker is rated 450W PMPO...i always think....yea, i wanna hook this thing up to one of my PA amps and see if it could take at least 300Watt RMS for more than a few seconds...;)
So you can admit it: you just want to let some magic smoke out! :-)
If you had half a brain you’d realise that the up to 75mins run time is in low speed not boost. It clearly says in the booklets and catalogs 75mins low, 22mins high, 10mins boost. He had it glued down on boost.
Have this same blower and battery. Still going strong after several years of weekly use. Impressed enough I bought the hedge trimmers with the up to 1" cut and they are beast. Very happy with all of the EGO products I own so far. We don't all own acres of land. I can blow my whole property inside of 5 minutes. The same battery several years old went in the hedge trimmer and cut about 100ft taking a very heavy cut in one charge.
Really appreciate not having my eardrums blown up uncle, thanks for always tweaking the audio levels
Some cameras yes. You can tell the levels in bumblefucks videos are adjusted in editing if you’ve watched a fair amount of them.
That fan looks like something right from the RC electric ducted fan industry...most RC brushless motors have the magnets rotate around the windings as well, and theres billions of them out there...that particular one looks about the same size as on my flying wing, will do around 100mph on a 3 cell lipo pack.
microbuilder yeah it is clearly a brushless outrunner. I am wondering how economical it may be as a hackable just for the powertrain
Thought the same thing. You beat me to the comments.
Considering how much an EDF of that size usually costs, if you were able to find one of these blowers used and on the cheap, might be worth looking into...at 56v, that thing must be RPM'ing pretty good, even if the motor is a low KV.
i was thinking the same thing
akbychoice that's normal true, we just saw the thing
Wait, that waxy phase-change stuff might be for temperature. When the cells heat up, they melt the wax, but while its melting the wax, the temperature of the wax is constant. The latent heat of fusion needs to be put into the wax before the temperature can rise more. It's like ice in water always being 0C when the ice is melting, but this is at a higher temp. Cody Don did a neat video about this phase change having more energy when he filled a hot water bottle with paraffin wax. He showed that it contained a bit more energy than just the water because of the phase change.
That brain box looks suspiciously like an rc car brushless esc.
The motor is a brushless outrunner from an rc plane .
Yup my thoughts too, the esc and the outrunner looks R/C
So i can buy a rc plane and clean my driveway?
Kyle Ikeda hmm. Get a big enough one, reverse the wiring on the motor and yeah you probably could. It'd be massively impractical and huge pain but eventually you could probably get the deed done. Or get a big ducted fan and build your own blower. Though by the time you paid for all the bits you'd be better off just buying a normal blower.
edf's are cheap and they do a surprisingly good job of blowing air, you can have some good fun with them
Holy crap you got one! I suggested looking at these over a year ago and I never thought it would happen!
R/C vehicles use that brushless motor configuration all the time. It's referred to as an "outrunner" motor.
My wife's response to the tool, "It looks like what Barbie houses are made of!"
Just picked one of these up! Loving it!
I've got a similar model and yes 8 minutes is about right, but it's great for blowing the clippings off the sidewalks. Have the trimmer too and with two batteries it's not bad. they charge in about 30 min.
the husqavarna blower i've used had that anti-static hand shocker on the handle as well. thing is though, if you get charged up to the voltage of the blower, you're gonna get a shock the next time you touch something at earth voltage. they're just delaying the shock so you don't blame it on their blower.
Zoey Well... usually when you work outside you are gonna touch the ground all the time with your feet
Rubber soled shoes?
wolfy9005 Yeah, modern age shite kills us.. Good ol' leather! But creepage is sometimes enough for static to dissapate. Work mats for ESD protection are also rubber (or some synthetic rubber analog) with a "conductive" backing in the high megaohms
Lol hi, I found your channel today and have watched several videos, and I gotta say I love watching your videos! Your funny, helpful, informative and I love watching you take things apart!
I’ll be a regular watcher of your videos now. 😊 have a good one!
The reason Retail Employees don't challenge customers when the alarm bells go off is because we get paid about 25 cents for every dollar's worth of work we do. Anything above a smile and "have a nice day" is above our pay grade.
Hey everyone get a load of this guy smiling at customers like an over achiever!
Could you dive a little deeper into what this phase change stuff is all about?
Seconded!
Wild guess: the wax is supposed to melt as a temperature control mechanism and the stuff whats mixed in is supposed to keep the wax crap ON the battery when its wet. The idea being that the heat of fusion of the wax will hold the temp steady while the wax is melting.
o course, some of that heat will just go right back in the battery when the wax freezes...probly won't matter though because the batter isn't being used if its colder than the wax stuff.
Just like they had on the lunar rover. When the wax melted, the astronauts would stop the rover, open the battery compartment lid and let the wax cool off and solidify by radiating the built-up heat away.
+Wectum Wecker Thank you for the link. I had not heard of "Phase Change Materials for Thermal Management of Li-Ion Batteries" before but it makes a lot of sense to me. The paper concerns a major improvement by adding graphene which I assume the Samsung cells in the EGO did not have.
Think of boiling water. 100% of the energy of heat is dedicated to changing the phase rather than elevating the temperature further. By circulating a cell with something that has a phase change at a temperature within the working temperature of the cell chemistry, it forces heat from internal resistance to be transferred into that material without elevating the temperature until 100% of the phase change material has converted. This, of course, it dependent on its heat capacity - but in a high drain device, this little tweak may keep the high "C" rating of a cell longer before needing to be dialed back to prevent thermal runaway.
Here's a fun game, remagnetize the strip and stick it on a shopping cart
Ive had a couple of Ego products for a few years now, Their mower, blower, and string trimmer and they have worked flawlessly for me. Best home gammer lawn equipment I have ever bought. Super quiet and no messing with gas or oil at the house any more. that stuff all stays in my shop down the street now.
I have no idea what you’re talking about as I’m the last thing from a workshop hobbyist, but I’ve been addicted to your videos. It’s awesome to see someone so passionate about their hobby, it makes it much more entertaining to watch. Keep up the videos and never sell out!!
Reminds me of a NERF gun.
Revamped Outdoors knowing Chinese manufacturing. They're probably made in the same factory.
Good call, I wouldn't doubt it.
Creative mold reuse is good for the economy.
I have the snowblower and lawn mower. Good stuff. I had something go goofy with the lawn mower where it would run crazy fast as it warmed up. Something in the computer, they sent me a brand new mower, 2 days, no questions asked. Have the old one for spare parts.
I worked at a stem summer camp for kids and we used one of these as the central fan to keep the skirts inflated on a personal hovercraft device... that turbo button really makes you run for the ear hole pluggers!
Those alarms go off, I always wait for an employee to come over and look at the receipt because I DO look like someone who’d shoplift lawn equipment.
I've used one of these in the past. Honestly I think there is a negative bias here. Considering the price of this tool compared to any other brand you just can go wrong. The battery life is significantly better than he makes it out to be as well. You dont need turbo mode for blowing leaves which is what most people use it for. Its simply too much power. We generally run around 3/4 to full power for most things and turbo only when you get to a large pile of leaves. Like it or not this is about as good as it gets for an electric blower and I personally won't be going back to gas.
Josiah Becker good god do they send you a list of talking points or is there some algorithm that cranks out these shill comments by the dozen?
I assure you I'm not a robot. No need to be a jerk. Just voicing my opinion and personal experience with this tool.
The milwaukee one is by default better because it takes common batteries.
@@kylebrown9898 I'm never going back to shitty gas power unreliability, maintenance driven POS. Stay behind while the rest of the world moves forward.
@The Sixto Show Rewired comparing apples to oranges. It's for lawn mowing, not for high horsepower and hyper performance.
I don't have the blower, but I absolutely love both my Mower and weed eater. They are both extremely powerful and I mow both my front and back yard between three and four times on a charge.
My vocabularium has increased noticeably since watching these videos. Much obligatoried!
Great vid again, love your channel man! My englishteacher is loving what I am learning over here :D
The Fred Penner word of the day is...... Recalcitrant. Word bird! I freakin love it.
Ode to AvE
Chirps words like an English prof
Trying to get the parts off
Can't find the right driver
Proceeds to swear like a miner
I bought one of these on a sale a year or so ago at Lowe's. Love it. Performs exceptionally well. Perfect for clearing snow. You can clear the car in the morning, toss it in the car, and clear the car again to go home. Very happy with mine. The variable speed and optional turbo features are actually useful. Lowest speed around the porch and flower beds so I don't tear up the wives stuff. Then I kick the turbo in for blowing off the sidewalk after mowing the lawn. You definitely don't want it on turbo all the time. Also they do make lawnmowers and other tools that use these batteries.
I also have one of these and came to exactly the same conclusion. I mainly use it for breaking up clumps of grass after mowing and light duty debris clearing. Tried to move leaves with it last autumn and got about 50 square feet clear before both batteries were toast 20 minutes later. I have the string trimmer from them as well, and that does a fantastic job, and can get the whole yard trimmed on a single battery most of the time. 0.6 acre for reference.
Battery life is the whole reason for having two speeds. Like AVE says, who needs "turbo"? Only the engineer figuring the battery life. Modern flash lights piss me off for the same reason ("runs for 20 hours!"). The on switch has a high and low beam, and maybe a strobe function. I just want to turn the light on and off.
Edit: I should have said that the turbo switch (and flash light modes) were designed by a battery engineer with a advertising guy standing over his shoulder. I can see it now, Ad guy "Wow that is powerful! How long will it run?" Enginerd, "Nine minutes." Ad guy, "How about we call that 'turbo' and slow it way down the rest of the time..."
Agree on the flashlight, but with a blower variable speeds are a necessity. Gas or battery powered
Nothing like falling asleep to the sound of AvE's voice.
Fuckin totally pervy or compleye inocuous. Weather depending amirite.
Gah dooont listerine too yhis guy is d4ank as fuck.
I dunno. Just the overall tone. Hope you're doing okay.
I've got the trimmer from them, 4 years old and still chooching great. The blower is insanely good.
Keep up the good work Ave. I really enjoy your videos and watch them anytime I've got some down time.
The phase change material is a mixture of paraffin, graphite and mica in proprietary mixture. The paraffin sucks up a TON of energy when it changes phases, and liquid paraffin has a lot more thermal conductivity.
It actually works? ?
8 minutes. That explains why there is a potentiometer and a turbo button. Those are the only way to get "up to 75 minutes" out of the battery.
And the "phase change" battery thingamabob is probably just for thermal management, like the batteries on the lunar rover: melting the wax robs heat from the batteries, cooling them. After some time with the motor off and no load on the batteries, they cool down, letting the wax re-solidify.
It doesn'r rob the batteries of heat.
The material has a high heat of fusion so it takes a lot more heat (Joules) to change the temperature a fraction of a degree. In essence; it stabilises the temperature of the battery at the melting point of the material; until all the material has melted.
I love how quickly he goes from 'recalcitrant' to 'come on you fuck' in the space of 15 seconds
We got vacuums at work specifically designed to suck jet fuel and purging fluid out of the tanks and fittings. They’re essentially a 55 gallon drum on wheels with a pneumatic Venturi vacuum on the lid and a filter element on the exhaust. The vacuums have to not only be grounded to the aircraft, but they also have to be grounded to earth.
I've never paid 180 for 8 minutes, that's for them wall street guys.
Bet this working fella only paid a Pavarotti. It is literally a minutes walk from the main station, but that might add a little frisson
www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/15/google-street-view-handjob_n_2884073.html?slideshow=true#gallery/286405/1
To comment on what you were saying about the security of products; you are right, in all of those kinds of stores employees are NOT ALLOWED to even acuse someone for stealing. Even when it's as obvious as someone going around putting flashlights and bits in their pockets.
combos16 i can attest to this. We watched some emo kid walk out of he store with a razor knife and couldnt say a word to him all that we are allowed to do by policy is follow the person around. Nothing more. You could walk out the front door with thousand dollar tools and we wouldnt be allowed to say a word to you... But they still take it ""seriously""
Emo kid and a razor knife... Rest In Peace my friend. You really could have prevented a needless death if you’d have stopped him. You monster.
+NextGenesis88
Dumbass was just going to give 'imself some attention marks; I say let the idiot have it, the intended use being its own punishment.
I have a kitchen filled with SERIOUSLY sharp things (got a WW2 German dagger somewhere, that my dad liberated), lots of blunt instruments, cars, bleach, acids etc.
I have the means to do harm.
I'm a fucking monster - the trail of dead behind me is appalling.
@@pd4165 r/iamverybadass
I have this blower and their trimmer. Both work great. I too always use the turbo button and it goes through the battery pretty quick. What sold me was a free extra battery with each tool. Anyhow, I like the blower. As a bonus it does a great job of blow drying my car after washing.
When I am on my deathbed one of my wishes is this man sitting by me while I take my last breath. I can listen to this voice all day long. It is hard to explain. it is like It puts me in life and time blown by the wind.
Thank you for being who you are.
I enjoy the videos... thanks for the eninerding view point.
The difference between a blade and vane: Blades move... vanes are stationary and redirect the gas into the blade or redirect flow. Blades in a compressor (blower) transfer energy from the blade to the gas. Blades in a turbine (or turbo) transfers energy from the gas to the blade... that is, gas energy is trasfered from the gas to the blade to produce blade motion to drive a shaft to power the compressor or other device. Nothing but high tech windmills and fans.
lo i cracked up when this thing blew across the bench
I have the Milwaukee flavor of this - I already have a ton of batteries so it made sense to your point. Works great even for light yard work. Along the lines of clearing the sand and leaves from the walkway and clearly not moving a trees worth of leaves from the lot. Right tool for the right job, and quick and easy - just grab and go. And yeah, works pretty good on that light fluffy snow on the car and tractor too!
The only true go to for a proper tool review. 👍👍👍
WALK? I RUN! If that alarm goes off for me, I start running. I know I paid, so I want to look guilty as possible and have some fun with it. If you work security in my neck of the woods, you had better lace up your runnin' shoes and be in good shape pal.
There was a security girl at a K mart when I worked in the shop who knew a guy was stealing parts but knew he was likely to punch her in the face if confronted so she just looked the other way. She was soon replaced by a guy we called Luke Floorwalker who could be seen chasing a mouse with a pellet rifle during store hours.
Ya gets what ya pays for.
Do exact same, just drunk and carry paper bags full of dog shit that I drop behind me.
Even more fun to walk INTO a store and set off the alarms. It's amazing how may alarms you can set off with some powertools in a rucksack.
Used to drive us nuts when I did my time in hell in Borders books, sports store in the same strip would fail to detag or even deactivate tags on stuff, so the alarms were constantly going off, detagger / deactivater was by our front door so we used to just deactivate stuff for folk who came in, save them hearing alarms all day long.
Dundee though...people just sprint even when the security guy has a detagger on him and is a pace away...
same here, we have a bunch of women in the local walmart as greeters and the local area is full of hood wanna be gansters. you never know when one of them is carrying
I own this tool as well as EGO's mower, edger and weed eater. They work really well. I have a smaller yard, but I can put the 5 AH battery in my mower, do the front/back, weed eating, edging and blowing almost all on one battery. The battery has never been a problem, I have two 5 AH batteries and 1 of the 2 AH batteries and it charges faster than they deplete. If I have to swap them out it's just a quick change. The tools are light weight and require no oil, fuel, air filters, spark plugs. They are much quieter than gas and with no fumes. My only complaint is there's no striper for the mower. The mower has a lot of nice features, folds up for storage, has thicker/nicer rails with quick release lever for folding it up and not those spinning bullshit tighteners on most mowers. Oh yeah sometimes you want non-turbo, when you're trying to blow some mulch from the drive back to the flower bed etc.. you don't want to over do it and blow mulch away from where it's supposed to be, but otherwise turbo a lot of the time.
I work in fuel testing, maintenance, and construction. For evacuating vapor from fuel tanks we use metal venturis that are powered by an air compressor trailer. Not sure if the metal venturi being screwed into the metal bung on the tank grounds it enough to negate the static caused by the moving air but we triple wash the tanks first. Once we're done venting the tank this way, normally the lel meter is reading 0 but we throw in a certain amount of dry ice just before pulling the tank to further insure an inert atmosphere.
I use batteries interchangeably for my Ego lawnmower, Hedge Trimmer, Weed Cutter, and Blower. Very pleased with all those tools .
Here is my non paid for non bias review of these blowers.
..after using these things for the last 2 1/2 years at work I can say they are pretty reliable and pretty tough. They withstand being wet and droped,throwin in and out of a truck bed and generally just handled roughly. Only complaint is that charge check button on the back. If you don't pull the battery from the charger directly and check the button it might show green but get a minute or two worth of use and it can go dead. It should have a light that shoes bars in relation with the charge. I'd give it a solid 4 1/4 stars. Ahah
I have two chargers for my batteries. The larger one has the charging light bars that I believe you were talking about. I think it was called the ego turbo charger or something like that.
First time I have watched one of your vijeos after visiting my neighbour and partaking in an excessive number of Australian beers. Makes for good viewing even half pissed!! :D
damien0505 I hope ye got the decent stuff mate. Foster's is for export only.
Phill no beer is good! (Rum drinker here) it was Victoria Bitter.
Victoria's been bitter since Jeff retired. :-P
When I set off the security alarm I go to the nearest wall raise my hands and yell HANDS UP DON'T SHOOT. Usually, everyone gets a good laugh and they just say leave.
I have an Ego weed whacker and lawn mower. Both have worked great over the past year and a bit, and the batteries have gone through 2 canadian winters in the garage just fine. Highly recommend this brand
Never let the beams cross.
haha yeah that would be bad
No check for actual ripums? I'm disappointed.
We had a battery powered blower when I worked grounds at a golf course. It was only used by the guy who went around first thing in the morning to move the holes. It was perfect because it was light enough to easially carry it with hole digger and the hammer and the battery was good enough because you only used it to blow the little clumps of sand you end up leaving on the green which only took 5 or 10 seconds
My roomate in TX came home with the EGO LAWNMOWER and String trimmer. For 1/4 acre, the lawnmower would eat up TWO BATTERIES. You'd have to hot swap 'em just to get the job done in one go. But the string trimmer, surprisingly good. Maybe I've just grown up with tempermental two strokes but the thing whipped up to speed and I could do the fence, patio, and walkways front and back without any perceptible slowdown. Shocking.
It seems like the "phase change technology" in the batteries is there to help absorb heat from the cells as they charge/discharge at high current. It would be interesting to look at those cells (mangled and unmangled) with an IR camera after being fed a hot supper. Mr. Predicto thinks that one mangled cell will fail long before the rest of the pack.
We played with phase change (thermal buffering) material from these guys... As you say, wax and graphite:
www.allcelltech.com/index.php/about-us/allcell-overview
Robert Orr does it actually work or gimmick?
@@broken1965 it works, its usually parrafin wax or something mixed with their special herbs and spices. satellites use similar tech. its basically a thermal capacitor
There's such a minimal amount of the stuff I bet it doesn't actually do anything, except for slow down the heat transfer out of the cells.
Ego batteries now run on the following devices;
Leaf blower
String trimmer
Hedge trimmer
Chainsaw
The new ego generator
Lawn mower
Snow blower
Power inverter (ego)
They have a line of string trimmers that takes multiple attatchments
That is why I bought the combo kit
Plus the battery has heat dissipating vents on the surface.
Even with all of this I still rock out with my Milwaukee and makita.
I have the EGO lawn mower, the hedge trimmer, the blower, the chainsaw and the weed eater.
I have 5 batteries and the quick charger (as well as three others that came with each tool).
It's only for home use and much quieter than a gas powered device.
And, yeah, they don't last long which is why I have so many batteries.
Still, no carburetor or gas or oil to think about. When one battery runs out, I just grab the next one and keep going - no gas can involved.
I'm a happy camper with these EGO tools.
Honest review here, really.
The Runtime isn't bad on most of the tools except the leaf blower that tool just eats battery life. It's super convenient for the lawn size I have though
Oh, one more thing, I mowed the yards in a downpour of rain and the mower kept on scoochin' until I was done.
That scalastic must be well placed.
I just like not having to deal with running out of gas oil changes all that fun stuff.
They now have a multi head attachment trimmer system but originally only a string trimmer was offered. Not the biggest fan of the String Trimmer I have its the original only one speed no variable and its a pain to load the string.
Thomas E Boland "I don't own a gas can so I bought $300 worth of batteries" 🤔
I have one of those with 2 batteries. Works great for cleaning grass clippings off my driveway.
Glad I watched this video. I was thinking about buying one of their battery powered trimmers. You just saved me a lot of headache. And money. Thanks
I have the EGO walk behind mower...it kicks ass. Had it 4 years and runs like a top...Wont go back to gas.
I'd love an electric mower, How many acres to you have?
I have a Kobalt battery-op mower. It works pretty well for my ~0.25 acre yard. Came with 2 batteries; generally 1 is good for the front, the other will take care of the back. Going on its 4th season, it's really not bad. Almost as good as my previous Honda gas mower...almost.
I have the older NON self-propelled model. I mow about 3k square feet. Dry grass, with the grass bag, I can do the whole yard with about 30-40% of battery left. I REALLY have to hit HIGH or wet grass to bog it down. This is with the STOCK included battery. You can but a battery that is 2-2.5x the capacity. It also weighs HALF what a regular mower does due to its plastic construction...Makes it easy to lift and move around and RUST FREE. It also charges quite fast. I was impressed enough to get the EGO hedge clippers too, also very happy with them. I have a really nice 2C trimmer, so I'll skip getting that. Considering the snow blower for my dad, whos getting up in years and this would be MUCH easier for him.
Based on my usage, if your grass is AVERAGE thickness and DRY. You could do it in one full charge. If for some reason mine dies part way through because I didnt charge it when done last or I used it in another tool, I use the time to take a break, get a drink and 15 min later its juiced plenty to finish. I would buy it again. The NEW model is self propelled. I would expect that to lower run time UNLESS they upped the battery to compensate.
I bought a jacket and they did not remove the security tag. I was setting off alarms for the next two months until I found and removed the tag. No one ever stopped me or even tried.
I have one of these and love it. Works great for cleaning out the garage, porches, clippings and crap that accumulates around the walkways and drying the car. Still have the gas blow job for extended heavy duty blow jobs. Lower power works great for most blow jobs, no need to turbo everything. Remember a slower blow job can be just as good as a fast one.
Glad I wasn't the only one that noticed all the Dyson V10 vacuum reviews coming out at the same time. Actually you're the first person I thought of when I saw them all coming out.
I have run a Ego blower, trimmer and mower for 3 years with no failures and been quite pleased, bought the blower first because I was skeptical of the plastic monster but then bought the others.
What would it do to the price and the weight to go with 30% glass filled nylon? Sure, it would be more durable, but are they having problems with them breaking now? These are rhetorical questions, but as an owner of several EGO tools (mower, snow blower, and weed eater), so far I've been pretty happy. Sure, I wish they felt more sturdy but they do get the job done. If I had a much larger yard, or lived where I got more snow (Northern Utah) I might go with something a bit more spendy and gas-powered, but these do what I need them two. I guess another question is, "who's the target customer?"
Nice rant paid EGO shill. "What would it do to the price and the weight to go with 30% glass filled nylon?" The price ? Nothing at all...the weight ? Minimal on that quantity of plastik !
I have this blower. Does a great job for routine yard work and works great as a dog and cat terrorizor, too.
I use this tool to clear out debris out of my trailer, that is commercial 53' trailer and it works like a charm....beats the broom. Glad to see it on your channel.
First, Love your channel. Been watching for years. Second wanted to add my two tits on this one. I don't see myself getting a blower (I got me a ball and chain and she chooches just fine). But I do think there is a place for this type of tool. I bought the electric mower from ego a year back, and she is a banger. Better then any gas mower I've owned, and I've own a fair few. I got a long grassed half acre. Mostly cause-in I don't mow it often enough. Electric was the way to go for me. I used to love my gas powered hand drill but I had to give that up too. Keep up the Great Videos!!
Remember, you were running the turbo, so it will probably drain the battery faster and maybe thats why it lasted 8~ minutes
remember 75 minutes is when you running this thing at lowest power. he just proved that numbers are just marketing crap
After seeing the snow blower work I was very impressed for something on batteries
I've got the lawn mower and weed whacker. For my little lawn, work great. The guy at work blows out a 1/3 acre parking lot with no problems. As you said, won't replace proper lawn tools; but, they are cleaner and a lot less hassle. (So far) Love your vids.
Those EAS tags are 99% deterrent. (Electronic Article Surveillance) and a major pain right in the dick. It's difficult to quantify the savings of using the system as a deterrent, especially since the cost (per item) is covered completely by the manufacturer. The only cost the retailer has to eat is the initial installation of the system, and maintenance costs. Most of the maintenance is free for generally 10-15 years depending on the warranty your company negotiated. So there's really no incentive to stop using the system for the retailer, which in turn makes it impossible to tell if it's net benefit.
kght222 Not saying you're wrong and your system for sure works (you work there and know better than me), but In my experience the tags attached to keys get knocked around, and/or left laying on registers so they end up getting demagnetized and not setting the alarm off to remind the employee not to take the keys home.
Well put! A friend of mine opened a store here in Norway, and the cost of installation was so high for his single setup, so he went online to find a cheaper option, and he found. And China was her name. No service agreement of course, but as you say, 99% deterrent.
I used to theft back in my hoodlum days right across the street from a police station (yes I was cocky) and I found I could take as much as I could carry and not get caught because the stores security gate things at the doors didn't actually do anything
never got caught and I was thefting literally every day
The homeless despot is actually not repairing them as they break. All the warranties on the systems expired. Plus they neutered their security department, it’s a free for all there.
a merkin of grass lol. Why did we take this apart again?
I'll probably never use most of the stuff he reviews but for some reason he is so darn entertaining to listen to...
"....a very ginger bris.' GOLD!
TURN THAT INTO A FLAME THROWER
Calling Elon Musk!
I can send you some Aussie warmth to defrost your car or soup.
BTW, we store it in our kangaroo pouches sometimes, ballsack other times
I have used the Ego brand push mower, weed wacker and leaf blower for 2-3 years and they have been absolutely mind blowing great. The blower in your video that you are reviewing isn't the same style I have used.
Love your videos and take on life. In regards to static build up I find it very interesting in the winter when pushing around the shopping cart (Target carts especially), where my fingers span the plastic handle and barely touch the metal frame, I can feel constant shock pulses. Kind of like chewing on a piece of aluminum foil.
I didn't quite follow what the problem is with the battery pack. Just that it's not part of a bigger cordless tool system?
The problem is that it's too full of wank marketing and non-functional lamborghini styling. A cheap brick pack will do the job just as well.
They got the 'lectric lawnmower and hedge trimmer tool also.
The limited number of tools that use the battery, along with inflated price, doesn't justify buying into the system.
It costs more than other batteries with the same number of cells and power, and can't be used on as many other tools. The fact that it's 56V means nothing. It's just a stupick overpriced gimmick battery.
To get the same capacity at MUCH higher current capability makes the cells cost a lot more.