There should be a conversation type called "review" or something like that. Anyway, here are my thoughts on this line.
First of all, when the line actually comes out, folks in the United States can still get access to it if it shows up on Mower Magic; the European EGO products are there and they will ship to the United States. Would I recommend buying into the EGO commercial line? Maybe for some people, but me personally, no. Here is why:
First of all, it is less expensive and more productive to just buy a bunch of 5Ah or 7.5Ah packs and a bunch of rapid chargers kitted with tools like the mowers and the backpack blowers, and it grants faster charge (one hour vs three for the backpack battery), plus, with many 5Ah packs, you could easily use two blowers at once, doubling your productivity. So buy enough to get you halfway through the day, then when their all discharged, go home and put them on the chargers and get something to eat, then when you're done, the packs will all be charged and you can go back out. With that said, I prefer that over the backpack battery.
Second, I absolutely do not like the way the blower is designed. With the small batteries (2Ah and 2.5Ah packs), unless I have my custom tapered attachment on and redirecting the force, the 530 unit fights me enough to make my wrist sore by the time I've discharged the battery. The unit is front heavy and the force acts like a lever against my wrist and I have to keep pulling it up, and the 575 unit is even worse. I'm betting that the 600CFM commercial unit will be next to unusable because the tube seems to be longer, which is like making the lever longer, you now have a stronger force that you're up against because the blower puts out more force, and there is no battery at all acting as a counterweight. I hope there is a counterweight in the back because this thing looks completely unusable ergonomically. A blower with that much force has to either have a counterweight on the back, or the force needs to go directly against the hand, or in some direction that makes it comfortable for the user. No, I have never used the commercial blower, but I've used enough of EGO's units to see by just looking at that unit that it will have problems ergonomically.
First of all, when the line actually comes out, folks in the United States can still get access to it if it shows up on Mower Magic; the European EGO products are there and they will ship to the United States. Would I recommend buying into the EGO commercial line? Maybe for some people, but me personally, no. Here is why:
First of all, it is less expensive and more productive to just buy a bunch of 5Ah or 7.5Ah packs and a bunch of rapid chargers kitted with tools like the mowers and the backpack blowers, and it grants faster charge (one hour vs three for the backpack battery), plus, with many 5Ah packs, you could easily use two blowers at once, doubling your productivity. So buy enough to get you halfway through the day, then when their all discharged, go home and put them on the chargers and get something to eat, then when you're done, the packs will all be charged and you can go back out. With that said, I prefer that over the backpack battery.
Second, I absolutely do not like the way the blower is designed. With the small batteries (2Ah and 2.5Ah packs), unless I have my custom tapered attachment on and redirecting the force, the 530 unit fights me enough to make my wrist sore by the time I've discharged the battery. The unit is front heavy and the force acts like a lever against my wrist and I have to keep pulling it up, and the 575 unit is even worse. I'm betting that the 600CFM commercial unit will be next to unusable because the tube seems to be longer, which is like making the lever longer, you now have a stronger force that you're up against because the blower puts out more force, and there is no battery at all acting as a counterweight. I hope there is a counterweight in the back because this thing looks completely unusable ergonomically. A blower with that much force has to either have a counterweight on the back, or the force needs to go directly against the hand, or in some direction that makes it comfortable for the user. No, I have never used the commercial blower, but I've used enough of EGO's units to see by just looking at that unit that it will have problems ergonomically.
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12,600 Points
- upset because just now I got bit by fire ants and it looks like somebody stole both my tripods, otherwise, this would be a video.
Posted 4 weeks ago
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262 Points
TheAtomTwister
I've got a Greenworks 80V backpack blower, I scrapped my EGO backpack blower for parts that I'm gonna use to make another blower, and I'm probably going to get a Husqvarna 580BTS.
Arun A
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