Greenworks Pro 80V Cordless Backpack Leaf Blower Packs a Punch!

Here are my suggestions. Buy this item A La Carte. Buy the blower, charger and a 4 amp 80 volt battery. This battery gives you about 30 minutes of high speed run time. I think this will cost you about $100 more purchased A La Carte like this. The 2.5 Amp battery just doesn’t give you enough time (15 minutes on full sepeed) unless you have a tiny area to do. If you can afford it buy this unit as is with an extra 4 Amp battery. This unit gives you about 66% to 70% of the power of my 30 year old Ready Max gas blower but with the 4 amp battery it only weighs 14 lbs vs 30 lbs for a fueld gasblower. My gas blower takes 5 or 6 pulls to start, and you have to buy and mix gas and oil. Check the date on the bottom of each item you receive it’s in tiny wrting but its there. If its old, more tha a year, return it for a newer unit. Charging the battery: So you don’t have start and stop issues like some other reviewer mentioned and it doesn’t tell you this in the directions, when you get it charge it for 10-12 hours before using. Then use and let the battery deplete and recharge a few times . You have to use the unit to depleat the battery. In my opinion if you have a decent size yard you should have 2, 4 Amp batteries giving you about an hr run time on high. Otherwise its kind of a pain as you run out of power just as your leaves hit the neighbors driveway. I found I kept sweeping the driveway as it would run out at inoprtune times and you then have to wait for a new charge you can’t just get more gas and fill up like you can with a gas blower.. I would not buy the larger batteries, 5 AMP as they cost to much and they get heavy. PS. In my opinion the hand held blowers are a waste of money. I tried and returned two and they are heavy on your wrist and body and to make them work better you need the large batteries maing them even heavier. Anything less than 80 Volts does not have enough power to blow leaves. I found customer Service at the company to be excellent.