welcome back to steve rob reviews let's start right now that is a leaf blower that is not a
leaf blower let's take a look at this little gem here i picked this gem up and uh it was like 30
bucks on sale and like this is about as cheap as you can get and you know what it works great but
it's not a leaf blower i'm going to tell you what i use this for and i'm saying that most
people should actually consider getting something similar to this not this particular brand because
i couldn't care less right but uh yeah this is an ideal shop tool it's not a leaf blower
that's a leap blower this is a shop tool and i'm going to show you what i use it for but something
very strange i noticed when i took it out of the packaging here it all came in this little box
i think the instructions are wrong we're going to do some testing we're going to find out
because it says you can only hook this up to a 50 foot 16 gauge cord
and every 16 gauge cord i know of it's good up to 10 amps generally
for a hundred feet it says if you want to go above 50 feet you got to plug it into a 14 gauge
extension cord and i'm saying they're wrong so we're gonna do some testing and find out because
this is only six amps as far as they're saying so is it really six amps they sell it as six amps
but why do they put down that you can't use it on a 16 gauge 100 foot extension cord
because why because these specs are wrong well we're going to test it we're going to find out so
i'll bring you over to the destruction manual it came with and we'll see what they have to say
okay let's take a look first of all instructions are fantastic they give it
to you in three different languages and the one that we're going to go for today is english and
where is it right here now you see this here 16 gauge up to 50 feet there's some glare on there
right and then 50 feet and above you need 14. and this is a six amp unit i'll show you the
back of the tag here okay i got you zoomed in there and you could see right there 120 volts
6 amp so we're going to test it if this thing is actually 6 amp because i'm going to tell you
something this thing has so much power i'm saying this probably isn't six amps so i'm going to uh
test it and let's start right now okay this is the setup right here i got it all plugged in i got my
line splitter in there i've got my multimeter amp clamp so we're going to take a reading off of here
now this is a 30 foot 14 gauge extension cord so i'll see if i can just bring you can you see that
there that's uh 121.6 ah there's a lot of glare here but 121.6 so let's uh let's put it on the
amps ac amps
okay so i got you pretty well zoomed right in there on the meter
and all i'm going to do is turn it on and we're going to see what the amperage is on it
well you've seen the numbers and it was uh just below six amps running and like you could expect
on most uh electric motors like that it's almost 12 to start up right but they're really concerned
about the running which is under six i am very surprised because i've tested a lot of
a lot of specs on different pieces of machinery if you like i'll put a link to my playlist underneath
and you can take a look at some of the testing i've done in the past but they're they're pretty
well spot on this and i don't know how they're getting so much power come out of that because
i do have another another leaf blower that i actually use for leaf blowing up at my camp
and well the specs weren't quite the same these specs are pretty well on i mean for something
that's you know 30 dollars i mean really so now we're on to the 100 foot 16 gauge
extension cord what are the specs going to be on this because you know as far as their concerns
you shouldn't use a hundred foot 16 gauge anything over 50 feet you should go to 14.
so we're going to find out why test right so let's get to it right now okay here's the 100 foot
16 gauge extension cord let's fire it up see what we got okay let's change it to volts
and what do we got there 121.3 say 0.4 so let's check the voltage
well that was pretty interesting and you know in my experience the general
specifications on you know electrical equipment like this is plus or minus 10 on your voltage
and come on 119 on 100 feet i don't see anything wrong with that i mean the amperage was so
close uh i really can't see where you could do any damage to this with a hundred foot extension
cord number 16. but leave me a comment for you down below that are electricians and engineers
whether you can see how they could make that claim that over a hundred feet you can't use a 16 gauge
you know like appliance like this because you know what if you take a look at
a lot of hedge clippers and other you know electrical outdoor equipment you know what
some of them are actually more than you know six amps and they do recommend a 16 gauge at 100 feet
so i mean you know these extension cores are rated to provide so many amps
at such a length like a hundred feet and if you take a look at some of the extension cords
16 gauge yeah you'll see roughly around 10 amps so i think i think it's perfectly fine to use it
but i mean you know i've done a lot of testing and i can say i'll put that link down below
in the description box for my electrical testing i've done i would say this is probably the closest
electrical testing uh specs that i've seen and i mean of course there's a little bit of an error
in the meter readings you know compared to if you had it you know in series and you know but
when it comes down to it it's pretty close right so i mean i think they're pretty close now what
do i actually use this thing for like i think it's fantastic like i mean for the money does
it blow as much as this leaf blower here does a gas engine no but i use this inside my shop
and i use it because i'm always making woodworking projects and that kind of stuff and i just use
it to blow out my shop i open up my big garage door and i blow it all out and clean it all out
i don't like running you know the gasoline engine especially in the wintertime
you know inside my shop you know it kind of gives you a little bit of a headache and you know it's
not a good thing to do right so yeah this is ideal for just cleaning your shop i mean for 30 bucks
you can't go wrong i mean i bet i can use this for 20 years never have a problem i mean for the
money and you know what it's so lightweight and so compact that i can just put like my
regular extension cord on here and just blow it out but if you want to use this for leaf blowing
i'm telling you i am shocked at the amount of air that blows through this
i'm saying you could use this as a leaf blower if you wanted to because it
is actually quite powerful a lot more powerful than i would have thought for 30 dollars
i mean you know when it comes down to buying some of these appliances you know to get a
real review and a you know an unbiased review we're not trying to sell something or you know
that kind of thing well yeah i use it outside and you know it's plenty powerful plenty powerful as
far as i'm concerned for 30 bucks i think it's a deal so thanks for joining me here today and
hope you learned a little bit something about uh you know testing electrical equipment and looking
at the specs verifying them and i'm saying yeah i'm going with a 100 foot extension cord
and i don't think i'll ever have a problem these guys take care come back again never seen this
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