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Yeah, I Googled the back packs and a lot of companies make them.

I'd run gas before I'd strap 20 pounds on my back. Those don't make sense to me at all. A regular size battery is light and easy to swap for a fresh one. I can't think of any viable reason to lug around all that weight.

No different than strapping a 5 gallon gas tank on your back to avoid refueling, it just doesn't make sense.

Apparently ego makes a 20 pound battery back pack that will run a trimmer for 10+ hours. It just doesn't make sense when their regular batteries are relatively light and have long run times. I think they just make them because there are people who will buy them even if they aren't needed.

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There are commercial-grade electric trimmers, but you are wearing a 20lb+ backpack to hold the battery big enough to have the run time even approaching a good gas unit and the cost is much higher.

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You serious? I've never seen such a thing. The batteries I use weigh 2.5 pounds

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How many lawn crews do you see using Barbie batteries? ZERO.

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Quite a few actually. My brother in law runs a landscaping business and uses ego for everything. Why...cause it's cheaper and requires less maintenance. Not to mention customers love how quiet they are. All the batteries are interchangeable between all the different equipment. He saves a shite ton on gas/oil which was a major expense. The zero turn mower is amazing.

You keep saying Barbie battery like it's some kind of jab. It's not as funny as you think it is. You just don't know what your missing. If your example is a ryobi cordless then...yeah...that's for someone with a few hundred square foot lawn.

I also shunned the electrics until my brother in law gave me an ego trimmer 3 years ago and I'll never go back. After 3 years the original battery still gets 30 minutes of run time. A new battery rolls for 45 minutes...or much longer if I use the larger Amp hour battery from my chainsaw.

I have a Husqvarna 455 rancher sitting on a shelf collecting dust because I prefer the ego battery chainsaw. Less hassle...more cutting time. It's just better. Batteries have come a long way. The quality high voltage stuff is every but as powerful as gas and has less down time. In the time it takes to put gas in, a ego trimmer will already have a new battery and a spool of line.

The sound of a fart is funny.... the smell is commiting nose rape. If you are a grown adult and you rip a smelly fart indoors or in a car with me you'll find yourself outdoors in a hurry.

I've never found convertibles appealing. I could live with a hard top but the soft tops really seem flimsy. It all just seems kind of pointless to me.

As far as I can go and feel comfortable is the old style t-tops with removable glass.

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LOL if you aren’t man enough for a real gas tool, don’t use it. If you can’t follow directions enough to start a Stihl, you probably could not plug in your Barbie Battery trimmer either. Let your husband do it.

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I sounded just like you until I was gifted an electric. It's better, it just is. Only reason to use a gas is because of nostalgia.

While you are fiddling with yours, mine will be doing work.

Another vote for ego.

Had one running the same battery for 3 years. Not dealing with gas/oil, pull start us a game changer.

It holds over 20 feet of line and takes less than 60 seconds to refill. Just pick it up and go...has saved me a lot of time and frustration.

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I’m coming from music and live sound perspective, but most of the Class D power amps that you see with an RMS of say 1,000 watts, you can count on getting maybe 1/3 to 1/4 of that in real watts sound

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Which are you talking about? Because I do a lot of shopping for class d amps and I don't see most of them overstating power. That use to be very common 20 years ago but nowadays too many ways to actually check the power.

I'm sure a lot of people don't get all the power based purely on stock electrical and crappy wiring. 1000 watt class d amps that make rated power for 100 bucks are everywhere now thanks to China/Korea

You do know they get tested independently for power right? Skar may not be considered top of the line but they always make at or above rated power.

The point is, they are cheap and make big power. That's what's nice about them. I've had one banging away for years at 1 ohm without problems. According to both my ears and dyno results it's making above rated power. Certainly not 1/4 power as someone else claimed.

You can go to youtube and watch almost any Amp get put through an Amp dyno session by private individuals.

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You may get better today, but RMS can still be misleading. I’m coming from music and live sound perspective, but most of the Class D power amps that you see with an RMS of say 1,000 watts, you can count on getting maybe 1/3 to 1/4 of that in real watts sound. You can find some that are truer to their RMS boasting, but it will cost a lot.

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Seriously? What's the issue with the class D amps? I've used several for subwoofers and have been blown away at the output.

There is no way a 2000d Amp I am running is only putting out 1/4 of that power level.