Thank you for taking the time making this video. As an owner of EGO single rubber/metal, 24" & 28" snow blowers for the past 5 years and learned many lessons from my mistakes, let's see if we take a closer look, break it down and see if this issue can be solved: 1. The batteries are not depleted yet when all 5 LED are blinking red. The batteries are actually overheated due to overload by the motor been pushing too hard which happens even to a gas snow blower. When the batteries are depleted, only 1 red LED will be blinking. Put the other two used 7.5Ah on the floor for one min. and they will turn green and most likely still show a few green LED lights to show there are charges let in them. 2. The setting on the auger speed is on "TURBO". Look at it as driving a car by pressing the fuel (gas/EV) paddle ALL THE WAY DOWN & ALL THE TIME in the snow what that would do to the engine. It is a learning curve transitioning from the gas snow blower which only runs on FULL speed in order to reach it's full torque power in the beginning due to the belt driven design that slows down when there is snow resistance. EGO's snow blower (not applicable to all battery snow blower like belt driven Toro & GreenWorks) is a direct brushless motor that provides FULL TORQUE even at ECO auger speed so set the auger to run on ECO speed will increase the runtime over 40% and will not overheat the batteries. Increase the auger speed only needed when dealing with heavy dense/almost frozen snow or ice temporary as required. 3. The setting on the drive speed is on "FULL" . Based on only 4"~5" of snow on the ground it is not necessary to go FULL speed which also increase stress on the auger running on "TURBO" to cause overheating on the batteries and over spill of snow as the intake housing can not process the snow fast enough. Look at the 2-Stage snow blower as a person eating and swallowing food. When intaking a large amount of food at TURBO speed, one would have to chew EXTREMELY FAST until the amount of foot overwhelming the capability of a person's ability to chew and swallow the intake of the food which may cause either chocking (chute clogging) or worse a heart attach (battery/motor overheating) while the food will be spilling out of the mouth like the snow blower leaving strips of snow over spill on the side of intake housing when clearing the driveway. It is cool and impressive to be able to throw the snow as far as possible; however, not necessary. I have been clearing 3 x 4 car driveways plus 1 mile x 2 paths sidewalk with the SNT2406 (2x10.0Ah) for few years before switching to the SNT2807 28" model and have not run out of of fuel once on a set of batteries unless it's wet snow over 8" for the entire rout so far so I know our machine does have much more potentials by operating it a little differently. Thanks again for taking the effort to make this video and hopefully these lessons I have learned will solved your issues.
I truly appreciate the insight! And after making this video I tried all these things. Let me address them. 1. The batteries are depleted. I monitor them as I was going. They both dropped to only one green bar, then to the red single blinking bar you are talking about. I continued to run it to finish up if I could, and they only started blinking all red when it finally shut itself off. 2. Yes. I agree on the turbo, which is why after this video I backed it way down and was surprised how well it still worked, HOWEVER, I was still not getting good battery life. (It snowed again after this video so I was able to try some different stuff) I still had to use both sets of batteries and while I finished with a bit more on the second set (2 bars) that's still nowhere near the claimed 18 car driveway on one set by ego. 3. The only reason drive speed is full is I was trying to transport it back to the garage from the back patio when it died. I blow snow about half speed. 4. A side note. I always lube up the chute and intake area to reduce snow building up and sticking with a good dry lube. Works great. My issue with batteries is this. The claimed "run time" on electric things is always theoretical and extremely optimistic. I knew this so I figured hey, assume a 50% reduction, and should be fine. Unfortunately I'm getting about a 75% reduction off the claimed life. Now let's look at gas. Here's the major benefit (there are plenty of downsides, storage, maintenance, etc) however. Let's assume gas has a 75% reduction in what is claimed. No problem. Throw some more gas in it keep rolling. And that's where gas shines. It costs something like $800 for 4 batteries, or more. And you'll never use $800 In gas in a snowblower before a set of batteries will need to be replaced, making the whole you have to buy gas argument moot. Please know. I'm not bashing electric, I love the idea of electric tools for occasional use around the house. Heck when my gas zero turn dies I'm going to try an electric. I'm just disappointed in the real world loss of battery life compared to the claimed.
@@roadtriptinytrucker7829 thanks for the clarification. One of the mistake I learn is: when the battery is showing one red bar, never pop it out and back in again to get extra runtime as it will absolutely shorten the longevity and capacity of the battery like the set of 7.5Ah I had before. Not sure how you store and charge the batteries. I only keep the chargers and batteries in room temperature for optimal charge, never charge the batteries immediately after the usage regardless the temperature to the touch of the hand ands wait for at late 30 min in room temperature before putting on the chargers and wait for another 30 min after the chargers are fully stopped with the fan fully stopped before using them again. I did not practice the lists above on my first set of EGO batteries which were the 7.5Ah and their runtime ended up only as good as a set of 5.0Ah batteries. After incorporates the charging practices on all the new batteries and avoid using the TURBO mode continually for over 30 sec.~1 min. (Major battery longevity killer), all my 5.0Ah, 10.0Ah and 12.0Ah sets are now all running great without runtime degradation. Apply the practices listed will regain a bit runtime after a few cycles of full charge & discharge ( when one green LED bar is on).
Like the guy previously said that’s an overheat issue you don’t need to run on turbo mode when you’re pushing that much snow and honestly I don’t think I’d want to keep going after two sets of batteries anyway, I would want to take a break and during the break the batteries will charge no issue
Read my reply. I checked that. They aren't overheated the only started blinking solid red after one red light blinking and it ran completely out. Out of curiosity I let them sit and they were still leader than a doornail once they were cooled off. My second issue is that's unacceptable anyway. A gas wouldn't "overheat" in 15 minutes of normal use. That's the issue, it's too fickle and so many extra steps. That's the issue I'm having.
I'm not going to take this one down, because it shows before and after the suggestions (I uploaded a second video, check it out) You'll see that by doing everything everyone said, I MAYBE got one extra car spot, let's be generous and say 2. Nowhere near the claimed 18 car driveway.
Thank you for taking the time making this video. As an owner of EGO single rubber/metal, 24" & 28" snow blowers for the past 5 years and learned many lessons from my mistakes, let's see if we take a closer look, break it down and see if this issue can be solved:
1. The batteries are not depleted yet when all 5 LED are blinking red. The batteries are actually overheated due to overload by the motor been pushing too hard which happens even to a gas snow blower. When the batteries are depleted, only 1 red LED will be blinking. Put the other two used 7.5Ah on the floor for one min. and they will turn green and most likely still show a few green LED lights to show there are charges let in them.
2. The setting on the auger speed is on "TURBO". Look at it as driving a car by pressing the fuel (gas/EV) paddle ALL THE WAY DOWN & ALL THE TIME in the snow what that would do to the engine. It is a learning curve transitioning from the gas snow blower which only runs on FULL speed in order to reach it's full torque power in the beginning due to the belt driven design that slows down when there is snow resistance. EGO's snow blower (not applicable to all battery snow blower like belt driven Toro & GreenWorks) is a direct brushless motor that provides FULL TORQUE even at ECO auger speed so set the auger to run on ECO speed will increase the runtime over 40% and will not overheat the batteries. Increase the auger speed only needed when dealing with heavy dense/almost frozen snow or ice temporary as required.
3. The setting on the drive speed is on "FULL" . Based on only 4"~5" of snow on the ground it is not necessary to go FULL speed which also increase stress on the auger running on "TURBO" to cause overheating on the batteries and over spill of snow as the intake housing can not process the snow fast enough.
Look at the 2-Stage snow blower as a person eating and swallowing food. When intaking a large amount of food at TURBO speed, one would have to chew EXTREMELY FAST until the amount of foot overwhelming the capability of a person's ability to chew and swallow the intake of the food which may cause either chocking (chute clogging) or worse a heart attach (battery/motor overheating) while the food will be spilling out of the mouth like the snow blower leaving strips of snow over spill on the side of intake housing when clearing the driveway.
It is cool and impressive to be able to throw the snow as far as possible; however, not necessary. I have been clearing 3 x 4 car driveways plus 1 mile x 2 paths sidewalk with the SNT2406 (2x10.0Ah) for few years before switching to the SNT2807 28" model and have not run out of of fuel once on a set of batteries unless it's wet snow over 8" for the entire rout so far so I know our machine does have much more potentials by operating it a little differently.
Thanks again for taking the effort to make this video and hopefully these lessons I have learned will solved your issues.
I truly appreciate the insight! And after making this video I tried all these things. Let me address them.
1. The batteries are depleted. I monitor them as I was going. They both dropped to only one green bar, then to the red single blinking bar you are talking about. I continued to run it to finish up if I could, and they only started blinking all red when it finally shut itself off.
2. Yes. I agree on the turbo, which is why after this video I backed it way down and was surprised how well it still worked, HOWEVER, I was still not getting good battery life. (It snowed again after this video so I was able to try some different stuff) I still had to use both sets of batteries and while I finished with a bit more on the second set (2 bars) that's still nowhere near the claimed 18 car driveway on one set by ego.
3. The only reason drive speed is full is I was trying to transport it back to the garage from the back patio when it died. I blow snow about half speed.
4. A side note. I always lube up the chute and intake area to reduce snow building up and sticking with a good dry lube. Works great.
My issue with batteries is this. The claimed "run time" on electric things is always theoretical and extremely optimistic. I knew this so I figured hey, assume a 50% reduction, and should be fine. Unfortunately I'm getting about a 75% reduction off the claimed life.
Now let's look at gas. Here's the major benefit (there are plenty of downsides, storage, maintenance, etc) however. Let's assume gas has a 75% reduction in what is claimed. No problem. Throw some more gas in it keep rolling. And that's where gas shines. It costs something like $800 for 4 batteries, or more. And you'll never use $800 In gas in a snowblower before a set of batteries will need to be replaced, making the whole you have to buy gas argument moot.
Please know. I'm not bashing electric, I love the idea of electric tools for occasional use around the house. Heck when my gas zero turn dies I'm going to try an electric. I'm just disappointed in the real world loss of battery life compared to the claimed.
@@roadtriptinytrucker7829 thanks for the clarification. One of the mistake I learn is: when the battery is showing one red bar, never pop it out and back in again to get extra runtime as it will absolutely shorten the longevity and capacity of the battery like the set of 7.5Ah I had before. Not sure how you store and charge the batteries. I only keep the chargers and batteries in room temperature for optimal charge, never charge the batteries immediately after the usage regardless the temperature to the touch of the hand ands wait for at late 30 min in room temperature before putting on the chargers and wait for another 30 min after the chargers are fully stopped with the fan fully stopped before using them again. I did not practice the lists above on my first set of EGO batteries which were the 7.5Ah and their runtime ended up only as good as a set of 5.0Ah batteries. After incorporates the charging practices on all the new batteries and avoid using the TURBO mode continually for over 30 sec.~1 min. (Major battery longevity killer), all my 5.0Ah, 10.0Ah and 12.0Ah sets are now all running great without runtime degradation.
Apply the practices listed will regain a bit runtime after a few cycles of full charge & discharge ( when one green LED bar is on).
Like the guy previously said that’s an overheat issue you don’t need to run on turbo mode when you’re pushing that much snow and honestly I don’t think I’d want to keep going after two sets of batteries anyway, I would want to take a break and during the break the batteries will charge no issue
Read my reply. I checked that. They aren't overheated the only started blinking solid red after one red light blinking and it ran completely out. Out of curiosity I let them sit and they were still leader than a doornail once they were cooled off.
My second issue is that's unacceptable anyway. A gas wouldn't "overheat" in 15 minutes of normal use. That's the issue, it's too fickle and so many extra steps. That's the issue I'm having.
I just made a new video. It snowed again today. I'll be uploading shortly.
Take the video down and do another one after taking the advice given in the comments.
I'm not going to take this one down, because it shows before and after the suggestions (I uploaded a second video, check it out) You'll see that by doing everything everyone said, I MAYBE got one extra car spot, let's be generous and say 2. Nowhere near the claimed 18 car driveway.