it's that time of year again when every leaf in the neighborhood migrates to your house and your
lawn and you told yourself last year never again but here you are this year once again with a rake
well it's time to say enough is enough this is the year that you upgrade to an
actual leaf blower the ego 650 power leaf blower
hello i'm wanderer 001 and this is my review of the ego plus 650 cfm blower or the lb6504 because
this particular bundle pack that i got came with the leaf blower itself the 56 volt 5 amp battery
and the charger now that is a standard charger it is not a rapid charger which will come into
play a little later when we talk about the battery the leaf blower itself can deliver up to
650 cfm now that is the important part because it is up to 650 it is not constantly at 650. it does
have a adjustable trigger right here with a turbo button up top this turbo button is what allows you
to get to 650 cfm if you are using it at its lowest setting you'll be getting about 225 to
upwards of a max of fully depressing the trigger of 500 cfm it also has a stated run time of 90
minutes because you like me probably saw that went wow yeah that's a long run time well i will state
that that run time is for its lowest setting and not using the turbo however i did test it at its
maximum speed without using turbo and that will actually last you 30 minutes which is pretty good
for what you're getting here and i will also state that the blower itself is remarkably quiet
and that is due in part to the construction of the brushless motor system here now i will
also say that when i was originally testing it to see the longevity of the battery at its max speed
i had it out on my deck and turned it on and after about 10 minutes i realized i should go tell my
neighbors sorry for the noise i'll be testing a leaf blower for the next however long it takes for
the battery to run out i was pleasantly surprised that my neighbors told me they didn't actually
even know i was running the leaf blower and i live in a semi-attached house so i do share a wall
with my neighbor so that's talking about just how quiet this is well why don't i use that as a
jumping off point before we get into the actual blower itself because a lot of the things with
electric leaf blowers that you're probably thinking about is well how noisy is this so
let's take a look and check the test that i ran to find out just how noisy this leaf blower is
so there you saw as far as leaf blowers go that decimal rating is nothing compared to what you'll
get with a gas-powered leaf blower and that is kind of the sound of the suburbs around this time
of year leaf blowers everywhere and wouldn't it be nice to not annoy your neighbors and have all
of that power to get your leaves out of your way as promised let's start back here in the back this
is the newer actual dial battery from ego it slips in and out very simply just by depressing this
button and pulling out it also slides back in very easily give it a little tap since i'm trying to do
this around a camera and on a table so that's not normal for me it is their 56 volt 5 amp battery
now this is primarily what's going to add the most weight to this and that actually helps as a
counterbalance to the rest of it because the rest of it is ridiculously light now with the included
charger because it is only a standard charger and not a rapid charger it does take an hour and
a half to fully charge this battery so if you have a rapid charger that will go much faster obviously
but if you only use what's included you're looking at an hour and a half between usages that's why
it may be good if you have a larger yard to have a backup battery although the large chunk
of the price of ego products is their battery technology so just bear that in mind when you're
looking at the battery coming back to the handle portion right here it is a nice textured grip
it's kind of rubberized so it gives you a nice bit to hold on to you'll notice that the trigger is
right there it's not terrible you can two-finger it if you have a small hand like i do if you're
going to be using this lefty you can operate the trigger and the turbo mode up here on the
top without any problems the ratcheting dial over here is a little trickier to operate so you might
have to switch back and forth the dial is nice in that you don't have to be depressing the trigger
for great amounts of time if you know what speed you want you could just dial it in and grab back
here and tilt down and just go to work it's very nice now again the dial here will ratchet all the
way up to the high mode but if you want the turbo mode you will still have to press the trigger here
it does have a little hook here for a strap and this is one thing with ego that i'm not
particularly fond of is that they don't have a universal strap it's this particular leaf blower
and a bunch of others have a specific strap then they're lower or cfm blowers also have a different
strap i i wish they would kind of uniform that because i also have their string trimmer
which needs its own type of strap and i do realize that they're different pieces of equipment i just
wish they kind of had more of a universal model and here we'll back that out a little bit so you
kind of see the trigger housing and the dial which i was referring to before it's nicely textured so
you will know it's there it also and let me take the battery out for this so it doesn't actuate
it does click and you could feel that when you first initiate it now i will say that i'm using
a lapel mic so you might not hear that coming down we have the actual motor itself and we
spin this around you can see these very large vents to suck in all that air and
as far as i was concerned when i was first looking at this it looked very weird for a leaf blower
design but i will say that part of that design is why you can get that much airflow through it also
one of the things that i was a little leery about or wondering about was this weird footstand here
which you can see is accented in green well just like it sounds like if you didn't have this stand
the leaf blower wouldn't sit very well because it's a rounded bottom
so this actually acts as a stand but you'll see right here you have a portion that you can slip uh
screw or nail through if you wanted to hang this on the wall in your shop like this
moving down we come to our actual blower two and the blower tube here is 19 inches in length so
if you have a more condensed area in your shop you can actually take this off by depressing
this little trigger right here so we can press on that and this will pull off and again trying
to do this around the camera not the easiest so apologize for that i had to take it off but you
get the idea so you have the short body the 19 inch tube with variable tips on here currently
you can see the concave tip it also comes with a flat head tip both the tips have these up top
which allow you to depress and remove remove them i do like the fact that there are grooves so think
of those as guide grooves on the main tube itself that correspond with inner guide grooves there
so you can always know where you're putting that on so you don't have to worry about that now the
important part about any leaf blower is obviously well how well does it do what it's supposed to do
i ran several tests i will say that i actually went off site you know somewhere else to blow
leaves because my leaves hadn't come down as of yet but as you saw at the beginning of the video i
have more leaves that i could blow but i wanted to test this thoroughly several times so what
you're going to see is a pile of wet leaves at a different location just to see how well it'll do
as well as you saw that little bit at the beginning of the video that shows you how well the
leaves blow so let's actually take a look at this in action all right lengths i go to test things
you've seen plenty of people blow dry leaves but how about going to a location to actually
blow a bunch of wet leaves so we've got some pavement leaves here that we can try
and we'll use the funnel tip to start with and then we've got some
what leaves over here in the corner so we'll first start with these guys here
not even full
it was barely a challenge let's try over
here
neither of that was on turbo mode that is really really good so we'll uh swap out to the
flat tip and see how that does all right we're switching over to the
flat tip again we won't go into turbo mode but we'll see how it does on the wet leaves
so that's on asphalt no problem at all we'll come over and try a different pile of wet leaves
in the grass here
and one test with turbo
yeah so i was terrible with the flathead on the grass
and then we will do turbo with the flathead on the asphalt
even wet leaves are not a problem
so there you go you saw just how powerful it is you heard how quiet
it was because i had a camera right in front of me while i was doing it
that is what i was looking at when i was looking at videos of this particular leaf blower so
just trying to give you more data points speaking of data points this was the big thing for me
just how much this cost this particular leaf blower with the battery and the charger and the
blower itself and the two attachments is 300 some might find that to be a little steep i know i'm
learning just how much outdoor equipment can cost since you know i have an outdoor
space to maintain now so my thoughts behind that are that i am buying into the ego system those
batteries are interchangeable so while the battery that came with my string trimmer is smaller than
the one i have with this one if i need to finish up my job i can grab that battery and swap it into
here so when you think of it that way 300 isn't terrible at all for something like this and the
power that you're going to get the one concern that i had and i read a lot of reviews about this
was that you know the quality assurance seems to be a little iffy with ego products in that some
people say they got this and then within a month it died or within the first five minutes of them
using it it died again the first thing i did when i got this out of the box was make sure that the
battery is fully charged and then proceed to run it for 30 minutes to do that longevity test as
well as go out and blow leaves at other locations so for me it sounds like i lucked out and got a
a good production model but it sounds like it could be hit or miss and with that that gives me
a little pause and concern but again i'm trying to produce data points for you so that you can make
an informed decision if you want to spend this kind of money for me right now this is working
great i appreciate the power i appreciate the battery swap ability amongst all the ego products
because i will be getting more and filling out my line in my garage of ego products so hopefully
you found something that i did in this video helpful to make an informed decision for yourself
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