Can you kindly post the spreadsheet for us nerds who want to look over the data? Thank you for doing this video. I have the 650 with the stubby and I can attest to the horrible pitch that is deafening.
These are very cool and I love to see your take on the ego brand. Can you also test the Milwaukee M18 blower, Milwaukee 2 battery M18 blower that was just announced, The old M18 blower with the small pipe and the new M12 blower. I would love to see how they compare.
Do you guys have any information on the new model 670 coming out? I wonder if this is the reason why the 580 has been out of stock. Maybe the 670 is replacing the 580?
These OG Bro Science videos are both entertaining and informative, fyi instead of holding the blower up to your head just hold the db meter down by the blower lol
I'm so glad to see someone pickup on the aesthetic issue with the 650 cfm version. I swapped out my trusty 530 for a 650, but I was instantly struck by how harsh and unpleasant the 650 sounded. To my ear, it almost sounds like a toy instead of a piece of upmarket consumer equipment. If the 580 has a proportional trigger, then I think I'll be swapping back to that model.
I bought the 650 Ego and was expecting a serious windstorm. I hate to be a wet blanket but I was disappointed, not a hurricane as touted, and the thing is really loud. Wishing now I had seen this video before buying. Might have considered a different brand.
air volume drop off after battery drainage was a significant differentiator in Project Farms testing. EGO tends to do extremely well with consistency there. Not a lot of drop off
@22:06 with the stock tube you said you measured 122 mph but with the stubby @22:39 you measured 142 mph which you described as "a little slower". I'm wondering if the first number was an error especially since it's so far off the manufacturer's claim of 200 mph.
I believe the new (and existing 18v) Milwaukee will maintain performance through most of the discharge; some (maybe all) of the egos start to degrade performance immediately in the pack discharge curve.
Impossible. Lithium batteries are what cause the reduction in performance, not the machine they’re powering. Consider the corded versions of these blowers, none of them experience any interruptions of performance. If you have a good battery pack … which Ego and Milwaukee both have … you’ll still experience discharge dips, just not as frequent or as harsh. 😊😊😊
as someone who uses the milwaukee weekly, i can definitely notice and hear a difference in performance when installing a new battery. A fully charged lithium cell is just under 4.2v per cell, during most of its operating life it is somewhere around 3.7v, most manufacturers consider a cell "dead" at 3.4v. Given this the only way i can see to have perfectly consistent performance would be to have some circuitry to limit pack output voltage to a number near the 3.4v per cell through the entire discharge, I doubt any manufacturers will ever do this because it hurts specs by almost 20%
@@Reaper-Jimompletely incorrect. You can limit the motor speed so that it only decreases once the battery gets below a certain voltage. watch project farm’s video on blower performance. Milwaukee maintains exactly 600cfm for 90% of the discharge.
Looks like plenty of sales out there on a couple of these. $150 for 615 with 2.5 amp or $200 for 650 with 5 amp. I have no other ego equip and don’t plan on. Only use for me would be to dry my cars. Like the idea of light wt of 2.5 amp battery which is probably plenty to do my 911. My Tacoma might require a little more and since batteries are so expensive it might be better to just do the 650 with 5amp, so I will always have enough juice.
Having used the 765 and the 650 daily I agree with tommy in that the 765 is the most powerful when using a fresh full battery but it just falls oof badly after a couple minutes. It’ll be interesting to see how the new Milwaukee dual battery 600cfm blower performs they claim it will stay at max performance throughout the battery’s full to dead charge.
@@Skdjiejxuje ooooh the dual battery one, that's right. which requires two batteries at all times. good marketing on milwaukees part to make you stock up on more batteries but i have no plans to upgrade my gen2 unless they can make it quieter, which if they claim more velocity w/tapered nozzles then there's no way it can be quieter. the gen2 has a noisy arse motor., the whole case screams harmonics, maybe i need toput some dynamat on it haha.
Would be cool to test other blowers. Ego really seems to have a great rep. That being said, I’m already deep in the DeWalt, Ryobi, Milwaukee (m12) and Worx platforms and I have a corded powerful leaf blower, the cheap Dewalt small blower and an air compressor, so buying a blower and diving into a different platform makes no sense. So I ended up buying the little light weight Worx 40v Nitro blower that is supposed to put out 630 CFM and 125 mph. The thing is so small and light weight, I’m not 100% sure that those measurements are accurate, but I’ve already got 4 Worx batteries and 10+ Dewalt batteries (and some DeWalt to Worx adaptor).
@@Jeeper1378 I saw Phil's video on it. It looked pretty weak and seemed to struggle on small leaves. I bet when actually tested it comes close to the performance of an EGO 530. Also seems very poorly designed from an ergonomics standpoint. It's like they literally took a design for a Cordless vacuum and made it a blower
Posting this again since I think TH-cam stripped my comment for some reason. I'll try it without the weblink. Anyway, Matt, I'm bringing this back from the dead since it looks like the blower market may be evolving, especially for detailing. Ryobi has a new unit that is truly hand-held and puts out 220CFM. Not sure if you've seen it. I would post the link again, but I think that's why TH-cam stripped my last post. 220 CFM, 140mph, $150 with the battery/charger, rubber tips, 3-year warranty, and about 90 dB according to some reviews and roughly 11 min continuous run time (full speed). I may pick one up to try out for $150. I know the "Ryobi" brand may get mixed feelings, but I've owned a few of their products over the years and I've never had a problem with them. Could be a viable option for people that don't want to hold a larger "leaf blower" to dry off their vehicle.
1:16 and 1:55 - The 18650 Lithium-Ion cells are described as "18mm in diameter and 650mm long" which you would think is the case. But for some silly reason the "650" actually describes 6,500 micrometers or 65 millimeters but doesn't describe "650" of anything. It really is baffling. If you think about it, 30cm is about 12 inches and 30cm is 300mm so these cells would have to be well over 2 feet long to be 650 millimeters. The 21700 is the same story. There is an extra zero there for some silly reason. Luckily Tesla did something right with their 4680 cells. Finally we have one of these cells named properly. And since then we've also started to call the 21700 cells "2170" instead, which is another step in the right direction. Oh the fun of battery cell naming. -_-
No. Incorrect. There are 3 codes within all lithium batteries, the first is diameter, the second in height and the third is for shape (cylinder or non-cylinder). For an 18650, it reads as follows: 18mm diameter 65mm height 0 = cylinder For a 21700, it reads as follows: 21mm diameter 70mm height 0 = cylinder 😊😊😊
@@Reaper-Jim Thank you for corroborating my thesis. It makes sense the final zero denotes the shape, and it also makes sense that the 4680 cell forgoes that shape digit because it is obnoxious.
Leaf blowers are, literally, a dime a dozen. You can pick up ANY leaf blower and it will work excellent to dry a vehicle. They’re practical and cheap … comparatively. Trying to argue which one is best is nonsense and ultimately pointless. They’re all good. YOU have to decide which one works best for you; corded, cordless, heavy or light weight, quieter or super loud, high CFM or lower CFM, stubby or stock extensions. Ego make excellent blowers … ALL of them. But so do others … yeah … all of them. Get one that serves you best. Note: Dedicated vehicle dryers (heated and non-heated) are largely pointless unless you’re installing them in a wash bay (the big blowers). If you’re not using the auto wash type blowers, get a leaf blower. 😊😊😊
This would be useful for the 2.5 mAh batteries, because those MIGHT only dry a smaller-ish car. I doubt you could fry something like a full size f150 with one of those.
Know what would go great with these blowers...😉 The milwaukee dual battery is awesome. We have milwaukee red, ego green, and black and grey for you industrial heathens...lol
This was painful to watch...soooo much talking blah blah blah blah..video could have been condensed with all the stats on screen to compare instead of idle chit chat.....I got nothing from this video.
I love how geeky you are. I love how thorough you are. I love how organized you are. I even love how clean your shop is. Details. Details. Details.
Can you kindly post the spreadsheet for us nerds who want to look over the data? Thank you for doing this video. I have the 650 with the stubby and I can attest to the horrible pitch that is deafening.
Already have the 580. Was contemplating the 765 upgrade. Thanks for the testing to save me the needless upgrade.
These are very cool and I love to see your take on the ego brand. Can you also test the Milwaukee M18 blower, Milwaukee 2 battery M18 blower that was just announced, The old M18 blower with the small pipe and the new M12 blower. I would love to see how they compare.
I picked up the dewalt 20v blower which is very good. I have a bunch of their tools and batteries so it made sense for me.
Do you guys have any information on the new model 670 coming out? I wonder if this is the reason why the 580 has been out of stock. Maybe the 670 is replacing the 580?
These OG Bro Science videos are both entertaining and informative, fyi instead of holding the blower up to your head just hold the db meter down by the blower lol
That's artificial, lol.
Can you please post the link to the spreadsheet :)
I'm so glad to see someone pickup on the aesthetic issue with the 650 cfm version. I swapped out my trusty 530 for a 650, but I was instantly struck by how harsh and unpleasant the 650 sounded. To my ear, it almost sounds like a toy instead of a piece of upmarket consumer equipment. If the 580 has a proportional trigger, then I think I'll be swapping back to that model.
I just picked up the 765 cfm, waiting for my stubby nozzle to come in.
580 has been discontinued in Australia 😮.
Never knew my ego was filled with the same batteries kids have in their vape bongs
If only they were interchangeable
I have the (Euro) LB5750E. Is there a US-equivalent?
edit: It's a 575 probably.
I bought the 650 Ego and was expecting a serious windstorm. I hate to be a wet blanket but I was disappointed, not a hurricane as touted, and the thing is really loud. Wishing now I had seen this video before buying. Might have considered a different brand.
Would you say ear protection would be necessary when using the 650?
air volume drop off after battery drainage was a significant differentiator in Project Farms testing. EGO tends to do extremely well with consistency there. Not a lot of drop off
I believe the new 765 drops off immediately, could be wrong though
650mm battery is one long battery :P it’s 65mm, length is measured in tenths of a mm because some batteries aren’t exact whole millimeters.
RIP Tommy’s ear drums.
@22:06 with the stock tube you said you measured 122 mph but with the stubby @22:39 you measured 142 mph which you described as "a little slower". I'm wondering if the first number was an error especially since it's so far off the manufacturer's claim of 200 mph.
I believe the new (and existing 18v) Milwaukee will maintain performance through most of the discharge; some (maybe all) of the egos start to degrade performance immediately in the pack discharge curve.
Impossible. Lithium batteries are what cause the reduction in performance, not the machine they’re powering.
Consider the corded versions of these blowers, none of them experience any interruptions of performance.
If you have a good battery pack … which Ego and Milwaukee both have … you’ll still experience discharge dips, just not as frequent or as harsh.
😊😊😊
as someone who uses the milwaukee weekly, i can definitely notice and hear a difference in performance when installing a new battery. A fully charged lithium cell is just under 4.2v per cell, during most of its operating life it is somewhere around 3.7v, most manufacturers consider a cell "dead" at 3.4v. Given this the only way i can see to have perfectly consistent performance would be to have some circuitry to limit pack output voltage to a number near the 3.4v per cell through the entire discharge, I doubt any manufacturers will ever do this because it hurts specs by almost 20%
@@Reaper-Jimompletely incorrect. You can limit the motor speed so that it only decreases once the battery gets below a certain voltage. watch project farm’s video on blower performance. Milwaukee maintains exactly 600cfm for 90% of the discharge.
@@improvedgarage see above. And also look at project farm’s video.
Yes test DeWalt and Milwaukee!
I use my Echo PB9010T backpack to dry my vehicles. The battery hand helds are painfully slow in comparison.
Did you ever post the results somewhere?
Great test guys. I find myself reaching for the 580 more than any others.
Cool video from San Diego
What's up with the skate decks?
Looks like plenty of sales out there on a couple of these. $150 for 615 with 2.5 amp or $200 for 650 with 5 amp. I have no other ego equip and don’t plan on. Only use for me would be to dry my cars. Like the idea of light wt of 2.5 amp battery which is probably plenty to do my 911. My Tacoma might require a little more and since batteries are so expensive it might be better to just do the 650 with 5amp, so I will always have enough juice.
The referenced Kite Army video:
th-cam.com/video/f5N30Q1qTaE/w-d-xo.html
So the EGO claim of 200 mph air speed on the 765 cfm model is total BS. Even with the tapered stubby nozzle it didn't come close.
Having used the 765 and the 650 daily I agree with tommy in that the 765 is the most powerful when using a fresh full battery but it just falls oof badly after a couple minutes. It’ll be interesting to see how the new Milwaukee dual battery 600cfm blower performs they claim it will stay at max performance throughout the battery’s full to dead charge.
what new milwaukee? you talking about the Gen2 or the spot blower? part #?
@@morejelloplease Milwaukee 2824-20.
@@Skdjiejxuje ooooh the dual battery one, that's right. which requires two batteries at all times. good marketing on milwaukees part to make you stock up on more batteries but i have no plans to upgrade my gen2 unless they can make it quieter, which if they claim more velocity w/tapered nozzles then there's no way it can be quieter. the gen2 has a noisy arse motor., the whole case screams harmonics, maybe i need toput some dynamat on it haha.
Would be cool to test other blowers. Ego really seems to have a great rep. That being said, I’m already deep in the DeWalt, Ryobi, Milwaukee (m12) and Worx platforms and I have a corded powerful leaf blower, the cheap Dewalt small blower and an air compressor, so buying a blower and diving into a different platform makes no sense. So I ended up buying the little light weight Worx 40v Nitro blower that is supposed to put out 630 CFM and 125 mph. The thing is so small and light weight, I’m not 100% sure that those measurements are accurate, but I’ve already got 4 Worx batteries and 10+ Dewalt batteries (and some DeWalt to Worx adaptor).
See Phils video on the Worx nitro turbine blower? He gave it a good review
It's kinda looks like some goofy handheld vacuum though.
@@KiranPatel-fk1pg who cares what it looks like. Lightweight and it preforms well.
@@Jeeper1378 I saw Phil's video on it. It looked pretty weak and seemed to struggle on small leaves. I bet when actually tested it comes close to the performance of an EGO 530. Also seems very poorly designed from an ergonomics standpoint. It's like they literally took a design for a Cordless vacuum and made it a blower
@@KiranPatel-fk1pg no no.. i had the 530 and that thing sucked. I have it .. its pretty good. Battery life could be better.
Posting this again since I think TH-cam stripped my comment for some reason. I'll try it without the weblink. Anyway, Matt, I'm bringing this back from the dead since it looks like the blower market may be evolving, especially for detailing. Ryobi has a new unit that is truly hand-held and puts out 220CFM. Not sure if you've seen it. I would post the link again, but I think that's why TH-cam stripped my last post. 220 CFM, 140mph, $150 with the battery/charger, rubber tips, 3-year warranty, and about 90 dB according to some reviews and roughly 11 min continuous run time (full speed). I may pick one up to try out for $150. I know the "Ryobi" brand may get mixed feelings, but I've owned a few of their products over the years and I've never had a problem with them. Could be a viable option for people that don't want to hold a larger "leaf blower" to dry off their vehicle.
Interesting...I'll check it out.
1:16 and 1:55 - The 18650 Lithium-Ion cells are described as "18mm in diameter and 650mm long" which you would think is the case. But for some silly reason the "650" actually describes 6,500 micrometers or 65 millimeters but doesn't describe "650" of anything. It really is baffling. If you think about it, 30cm is about 12 inches and 30cm is 300mm so these cells would have to be well over 2 feet long to be 650 millimeters.
The 21700 is the same story. There is an extra zero there for some silly reason.
Luckily Tesla did something right with their 4680 cells. Finally we have one of these cells named properly. And since then we've also started to call the 21700 cells "2170" instead, which is another step in the right direction.
Oh the fun of battery cell naming. -_-
No. Incorrect. There are 3 codes within all lithium batteries, the first is diameter, the second in height and the third is for shape (cylinder or non-cylinder).
For an 18650, it reads as follows:
18mm diameter
65mm height
0 = cylinder
For a 21700, it reads as follows:
21mm diameter
70mm height
0 = cylinder
😊😊😊
@@Reaper-Jim Thank you for corroborating my thesis. It makes sense the final zero denotes the shape, and it also makes sense that the 4680 cell forgoes that shape digit because it is obnoxious.
I was always wondering why you hadn’t started pushing the RED ones
Ok. Good information
Is the 580 still made?
There are still some left.
To late for me i got the 765 but im not sorry it works amazing
Leaf blowers are, literally, a dime a dozen. You can pick up ANY leaf blower and it will work excellent to dry a vehicle. They’re practical and cheap … comparatively. Trying to argue which one is best is nonsense and ultimately pointless. They’re all good. YOU have to decide which one works best for you; corded, cordless, heavy or light weight, quieter or super loud, high CFM or lower CFM, stubby or stock extensions. Ego make excellent blowers … ALL of them. But so do others … yeah … all of them. Get one that serves you best.
Note: Dedicated vehicle dryers (heated and non-heated) are largely pointless unless you’re installing them in a wash bay (the big blowers). If you’re not using the auto wash type blowers, get a leaf blower.
😊😊😊
Battery run time would be a great idea! I have an ego but the drying time always feels too short.
This would be useful for the 2.5 mAh batteries, because those MIGHT only dry a smaller-ish car. I doubt you could fry something like a full size f150 with one of those.
You can't buy 580 anymore sadly at least in Canada.
Content is ROLLING out
Eye test versus analytics.
Know what would go great with these blowers...😉 The milwaukee dual battery is awesome. We have milwaukee red, ego green, and black and grey for you industrial heathens...lol
This was painful to watch...soooo much talking blah blah blah blah..video could have been condensed with all the stats on screen to compare instead of idle chit chat.....I got nothing from this video.
I don't make videos for you. I make them for me.
Yet here you are posting how disappointed you are. Do you b*itch about free beer not being cold enough too?
@@ObsessedGarageThat’s worth a thumbs down!
You also paid nothing for it. Id say you got your moneys worth.
go cry to your mom