Hey guys! On last episode of Make it Real we made the world's most powerful handheld leaf blower
using a large carbon fiber tube, a 24 horsepower electric ducted fan
and 224 energies lithium-ion batteries that can produce 800 amps at 60 volts
that's 48 kilowatts, that's the same amount of power that my entire house can
draw from the power grid. At that output it produces over 50 pounds of thrust and
moves over 4500 cubic feet of air per minute, compared to a standard leaf blower
it's over ten times as powerful plus it kind of looks like Iron Man's
rumored proton cannon so maybe I'll suit up later. Don't forget to watch the build video
if you want to see how it was made. Now let's see what I can really do
against some leaves and then maybe we'll see what else it can blow.
What's that noise? I hear a Wimpy leaf blower, do you hear it?
You should go downwind of it
Going to blast the leaves at you
Best leaf blower ever!
How do you even bring that up? Hey we just made the world's most powerful leaf blower
You wanna see it?
we just made the world's biggest leaf blower
Perfect
Can I bring it over
Absolutely
oh sweet
It's the world's most powerful leaf blower
Look at this thing
That's a lot of force on the arms
Is it a full work out
Wanna try
Alright
yep
That thing is amazing
I could have been here all day
So how long have you been working on that?
Yesterday
Yesterday?
yeah we started yesterday
Wow
Yea we do this thing where we trying to do like a one day build
so we challenge ourselves to like make something really cool in one day maybe
Maybe next year we'll have to make the jet engine version
In one swoop backyard clean
But then that would catch all the leaves on fire as well
And there's still time to work on Stormbreaker
I found Stan
yeah we were just out, we did a bit of your backyard
And then we noticed that your neighbor was using a little pansy leaf blower
so we poked her head over the fence and asked if we could help
Can I pick it up?
Ya
Nice
How do I turn it on?
We unplugged it
Fix it!
Fix it fix it fix it fix it fix it fix it fix it fix it fix it fix it fix it fix it
fix it fix it fix it fix it
Aw man! I'm never going to get this done!
Did somebody call for Mr. Leaf Blower?
Oh my hero!
Ok you ready Jordie?
I'm scared
That was pretty fun
That was ridiculous
So how does this leaf blower work anyway? Well at the core of the project is a
five thousand dollar 195 millimeter diameter
Schubeler electric ducted fan, which we originally bought for our flying like
Iron Man project. Now I still plan on flying but we'll talk about that in a
future video. Anyway to power this beast of a fan you need a lot of power
60 volts at up to 300 amps which we're getting from a modular energist
lithium-ion battery pack, it consists of 14 individual packs connected in series
Each pack contains 40 high discharge Samsung 18 650 lithium-ion cells
These batteries are actually really safe, in our last video we destroyed some of them
to show just how resilient they are compared to our normal lipo batteries
We are also using an energist battery management system which monitors,
balances, and protects the batteries. Plus it has bluetooth. To control the EDF we
have an 800 amp brushless DC motor speed controller, normally this kind of thing
is designed to be remote controlled using standard hobby electronics
So to tell the speed controller how much power we want we're actually using a servo
tester which only cost $5, it features a dial gauge and an on/off switch
simply turn it up to 11 and you'll be getting over 50 pounds of thrust which is over
4500 cubic feet of air per minute. It's crazy!
Now I'm gonna put on my Ironman suit
and we'll see if this leaf blower can also be used as a weapon
Someone put some AC DC on
all right we gotta build a proton canon now
More power!
Barely 50%
Really?
I feel safe
Is that path the safest?
No
No that's terrible there's flagstone back there
This is how I should do all my traveling
Somebody else's turn
medic!
Alright
How high do you want it?
50%?
75%
75% yeah
I don't have the bracing in the suit
It almost knocked me over
Alright let's set it to 50%
That would have looked pretty good
Alright again
It's cold. I didn't fix the icing problem
It still works!
Take me back to my dolly
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Alright musical chairs
try and keep it in the air Ian
That worked perfect
I think it dented the shield
Do it again!
bye-bye Kingsmen umbrella
Fierce.
Evan you gotta catch pickle Rick. Don't let him down
Jairus! That went pretty far
Pretty close to death
He's alive
That was a messy one
Toilet paper princess?
Brown toilet paper princess
the ultimate teepee canon
Someone's got to take the teepee to the face
we got some in the tree
disappointed it didn't blow you?
yes
Hope you guys enjoyed that video, we had an absolute blast building and testing
the world's largest leaf blower. Huge shout out to both Jairusofall and
GreatGadgetGuru who came up to Canada to help us out with the test
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