Stephen wrote:
Hello, I have an electric mower but it's not very good: it gets
clogged up with wet grass and long grass will stall the motor. I
keep thinking I should treat myself to a petrol one but a honda
is £400 and I think is it worth it for the few weekends it will
get used each year.

Every now and then I look on web sites to see the prices and when
I was looking today, I saw that there are many rechargeable
mowers now. Thinking about the recent thread about electric cars,
it seems mowers are heading that way too. It might be my last
chance to buy a petrol one!

I wonder how long the batteries last before they need replacing
and how powerful these battery powered mowers are?


These links provided as an indication of the absurdity
of BE for mowers. This was the larges battery pack on offer
for this sort of thing as of last year.

https://www.globalindustrial.ca/p/ou...attery-charger

"RUN TIME 60 minutes" === with the one provided battery 56V 7.5Ah

The battery is 30-40% of the purchase price of the mower. Since my runtime
for the yard is 90 minutes, I would need two batteries (so would purchase
this one).

https://www.amazon.com/EGO-56V-BA420.../dp/B07PY6CCNT

That battery pack is also used in a snow blower. The snow
blower takes *two* of those batteries, and will process
snow at a depth of 8" to 10" or so. Still not enough for
all situations. And if you've ever used a snow blower not
matched to the snow depth, you'll know what that means.

When the snow blower uses *four* of those batteries, then
only Bill Gates will have one.

There aren't sufficient field reports for those yet,
as to failure rates. First we have to find enough rich people
to test those for us.

That's more of a power pack than most of them get.

My next door neighbor has a "lesser" BE mower, where the battery
pack is inside the housing and cannot be removed. He gets about
half the lawn done, before stopping for a recharge. And he finishes
the lawn the next day. I don't know where the lawn mower
sits while it recharges, somewhere in the back yard, in the
rain, or whatever... My neighbor got about four years out
of the previous BE mower, and he deserves some sort of award
for trying again.

Paul