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Testing the Best Outdoor Power tools- Battery VS Gas

What happens here

Begin by starting the Echo PB-580T gas-powered backpack leaf blower. Pull the starter cord until the engine ignites and runs smoothly. Introduce the EGO Commercial backpack blower, highlighting its features including its 56-volt, 28-amp-hour battery system. Discuss the run time for the EGO blower (1 hour and 40 minutes at full throttle) compared to an equivalent gas blower (approximately two tanks of fuel). Attach the blower unit to the EGO backpack power source using the tethered cable. Briefly demonstrate the auxiliary power port for charging devices. Prepare both blowers for the initial leaf-clearing test.

Goal: Prepare both leaf blowers and understand their basic specifications for testing.

Tools and materials

  • Echo PB-580T Gas Leaf Blower Echo — Comparison of gas-powered performance
  • EGO Commercial Backpack Blower — Comparison of battery-powered performance and durability testing
  • Gasoline Generic — Fueling the gas leaf blower

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there you go today we're gonna be testing just how waterproof ego makes their commercial line of blowers did you turn it on all right you guys hey gate he turn yours off first quick sec okay so it's gas versus battery in today's test Jake you've got your very favorite of all time don't use the X all right so let me let's show these guys what you're running the echo PB 582 why is that your favorite Y power I also want to groove up on it works good qu up I've never used a backpack blower till I came here [Applause] [Music] all right today we're going to be taking a look at Eagles newest commercial line of backpack blowers actually this is considered a multi-tool this is a 56 volt 28 and power system now a couple of the things you're gonna see us do today is we're gonna be bringing this out into the real world and doing some real world testing and we're gonna be doing some very unreal world testing to see just how tough this thing actually is so before we get started take your best guess in the comments down below does this thing survive today's video now before we actually start bringing it out onto the job site and putting it to the test there's a couple things that I want to show you about this so you're at least familiar with it so you know what it is we're looking at and talking about now this is the very first commercial line that Eagle has offered which mistakenly a few years back I thought their stuff was commercial line because it's actually pretty good stuff now he goes not paying me to do this video so whatever if I find while we're making this video is it is what it is now a couple of the features that this thing has that maybe interests some of you guys is right here I see you might get this in here they've got auxilary power parts oh now this is a tethered system so that means that this backpack with you there's the charger now this backpack powers different tools and attachments and by a tethered system you basically just take this plug pump it into whatever to limit at Mynt you want hook it together and fire it up so without wasting any more time let's get up to the boys in the field and actually start putting this thing to work now Frankie you've had a chance to run that last night for it off well we did the time test on it and that was an hour and 40 minutes of constant a constant runtime yeah I will be shut down by I wasn't set down five minutes I ran this got a wide open I mean that would have probably been well how many tanks of fuel on…

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