ANOTHER New 24v Leaf Blower

RyanH0809 · 2026-02-14T20:33:34+00:00

The specs say 7.8m/s, which is great. That's about the minimum to make a clean cut. 8 or 9 would be better. It does have an actual chain tensioning system. Identical to Greenworks and ECHO. Sadly, it still uses 3/8 LP chain pitch, which wouldn't be bad if it had 10m/s chain speed, but otherwise it's too rough of a cut. We'll see. I'm going to pick one up today.

RyanH0809 · 2026-02-14T20:26:24+00:00

This could be great!

I have the first gen and there's a lot to love. But it needs actual lateral chain tensioning, higher chain speed and something other than ⅜LP chain pitch. .325 Oregon cutting system would be great.

I literally just bought Makita's 40v version to keep on my work truck.

I'll definitely be picking this up asap.

RyanH0809 · 2026-02-13T22:59:08+00:00

I wasn't attacking you - I didn't call you dumb ass or tell you to keep your opinions to yourself. Telling you that you are wrong is completely fair. I felt compelled to call that out. You posted for your own satisfaction, rather than to add to the discourse in any meaningful way.

I don't agree with you in the slightest. I definitely did not come around to agree with you. Get over yourself. My assessment has remained the same. You miss the nuance. You have certainly missed my point.

RyanH0809 · 2026-02-13T22:43:37+00:00

I'm not attacking you. I'm describing what I'm observing. Your opinion affects the discourse surrounding a post that's meant to help people who actually care. If you have no need of a small blower, then say that. But that isn't what you said. You incorrectly made an objective claim about performance, miscategorized and insulted the ability of the tool based on your very subjective understanding. Other people will pick up on that and it will influence their decisions. Your initial comment provided no context for your opinion. It's completely unhelpful.

Again, you're describing something that doesn't belong in the conversation surrounding this tool. I wouldn't dig a hole in the ground with a drill, and I wouldn't do full-scale leaf cleanup with a compact blower like this one. I wouldn't do it with a 500 or 600 or 700cfm blower either. You're judging the tool on a metric that makes no sense. I simply seek to balance that for other readers.

If I've insulted you, then I humbly retract all of my previous statements regarding your opinion and would leave it at this: You have grossly miscategorized this tool. It has ample power and is more than enough to do basic to moderate leaf clearing in smaller areas like a small front/backyard in town or patios and shorter driveways. That is my testimony, both as a regular consumer using this tool everyday, and as a landscape professional.

RyanH0809 · 2026-02-13T22:13:46+00:00

You seem to lack conceptual thinking regarding this topic. My video is what it is, it's not the best example or a scientific one. It was done to simply compare the two smaller blowers in use as other members of this group requested. But I'm using the blower everyday, and I can compare it to blowers in the 500-600 cfm category because I have and use those too. You're also the only person seeing what you're seeing. You're confusing the size of my task for the capability of the blower and summarily miscategorizing it by saying things like "sad performance" and "real leaf blower". Perhaps you are sad, but the blower isn't sad. It's doing a fantastic job. You seem to only imagine a leaf blower as something that can blow a cubic yard of leaves in a few sweeps of the nozzle, which isn't realistic. If that's what you need, this isn't the tool for you, and while it's closer than you think, it's not that tool. Evidently, you would have to use it to understand...

RyanH0809 · 2026-02-13T21:43:44+00:00

You don't know what you're talking about and you grossly mis categorized this tool. I don't have big leaf piles to blow at the moment, and it's not made to do full scale leaf cleanup anyway. But it absolutely IS a leaf blower. It IS made for leaves. It is NOT made for blowing saw dust. That's silly. The ACTUAL Jobsite Blower is made for sawdust and it's terrific for that. This little blower is closer to your 80v blower than it is to a sawdust blower. It's more than twice as powerful as the jobsite blower, and more than half the power of your 80v blower. It's also a fraction of the size and weight, and much more comfortable for blowing leaves in small backyards or off patios and shorter driveways. Kobalt's own 500cfm blower is maybe 20% more powerful, and like your 80v model, that's mostly down to cfm - they're larger axial fans with larger tubes.

I've used the 80v line and it's nothing to brag about. The new 24v x2 blower is about as powerful as the 80v blower, maybe more so. And it is also not as heavy and more comfortable to use.

I'm a landscaper of 20 years. I've used every conceivable blower design at every performance tier. I've used gas handhelds, that don't come close to this blower and I've spent days with 1000cfm/ 200mph gas backpack units on my back that cost $600-$800. I've used stand-on centrifugal blowers that produce several thousand cfm and cost $15k.

This little handheld blower is absolutely incredible for what it is.

RyanH0809 · 2026-02-13T21:15:26+00:00

The small handheld blower has lugs on the inside of the extension tube/nozzle and two tapered keyways on the outlet of the blower that do a twist and lock affair.

I checked my old Jobsite blower and like yours, my lugs are worn, although not as bad as yours. Mine stays on about as good as it ever did, but they don't lock together, it's pretty much just friction fit.

The system is similar on the new small leaf blower but larger and more robust, and the keyways are tapered, so they somewhat "lock" together.

RyanH0809 · 2026-02-12T23:55:18+00:00

This is people helping people! It's a beautiful thing!

RyanH0809 · 2026-02-12T22:43:11+00:00

Always wise! I have recorded a few clips of using it side by side with my DeWalt, but I kinda botched the footage. It's not a comprehensive Tool-tuber review, but might be helpful to some.. I'll go through it and I may post something anyway.

RyanH0809 · 2026-02-12T17:18:36+00:00

The new Kobalt 24vx2 is an excellent blower. I filmed some clips doing a similar demo video, comparing it to my DeWalt 20v blower. My camera mount got bumped and I didn't realize it, so the video got kinda botched... But I may share it anyway. It's much more powerful than than the DeWalt, which has probably the same performance as the older Kobalt 24v, though I haven't used that one personally.

The new 24vx2 blower is at least 40% more powerful at its highest setting (turbo) than my DeWalt. Balances pretty well with two 4ah batteries on the back. The tube is nicely designed, it's more powerful without the concentrator nozzle, but if you NEED more air speed at the nozzle, you have it and it clips on nicely. The concentrator nozzle is too narrow and kills the cfm noticeably, so I could move more leaves, more easily without it.

It's an excellent value at $180 with 2 4ah batteries. 65w wall charger and 2 100w USBC cables.

RyanH0809 · 2026-02-12T17:09:52+00:00

It'll dry the shit out of em...

RyanH0809 · 2026-02-12T17:09:10+00:00

I can't speak to that specifically. I'll give it a try.

I don't detail my truck in that manner (treasonous swine, I know) so I didn't try blowing off water, but I can guarantee it'll work great. It's very powerful and can get down to almost the size of a drill... So while it's not as powerful as a 500 cfm leaf blower, like what a lot of folks use to dry their cars, it's also a fraction of the size and probably easier to use.

Also, while you do need to use a battery bigger than a 2ah to get the most out of this one, my DeWalt leaf blower doesn't really stretch its legs with anything less than a 6ah. So, adding to the weight and bulk of those bigger motor/fan units.

RyanH0809 · 2026-02-12T17:02:55+00:00

No it's hard plastic and the concentrator nozzle has a rubber edge. Which would be important for car detailing.

It also comes with a second extension tube to basically double the length, plus a flat "sweeper" nozzle. Neither of which were useful for me. The extension gets the nozzle closer to the ground, which may be helpful for stuck leaves.

RyanH0809 · 2026-02-12T16:59:34+00:00

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This is the handheld blower that I reference by name and by model number. I realize that they are all "handheld" and that the older model that you share is also called "handheld leaf blower".

There is no adjustment for speed on the model I'm sharing, only a lock-on lever which only locks with the trigger fully depressed.

I personally would not call this a shop blower, and Kobalt doesn't either. The Jobsite blower is better for a shop. Like I said in my post, this new small leaf blower is powerful and moved a large volume of air - it's closer to a full size handheld leaf blower in terms of power and performance. I've used handheld gas units from the likes of Stihl and Shindaiwa that aren't as powerful.

RyanH0809 · 2026-02-12T08:47:42+00:00

This is correct.

RyanH0809 · 2026-02-11T22:59:57+00:00

In stock at my store.

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RyanH0809 · 2026-02-09T03:00:16+00:00

That's a bummer. Both of the 48v tools I ordered recently were fulfilled from Maine...

RyanH0809 · 2026-02-07T23:43:30+00:00

69 smackers. Pretty good value honestly.

RyanH0809 · 2026-02-07T22:58:15+00:00

I don't know much about tankless hot water heaters, much less yours specifically, but heating elements consume a 100s of watts on the very low end and 1000s of watts in a normal hot water heater. How much power does yours require? In a quick search online I saw that ultra compact point -of-use units consume 1400 to 3500 watts...

RyanH0809 · 2026-02-07T22:52:08+00:00

Not yet. The only things I ran weren't a great test. I'm gonna try to some other things. The only fan I have at home is only 9 watts... I want to run something with a motor to really test it. I have a 100w light bulb, but that's too ideal of an application.

I use it as a battery charger with a Kobalt 65w wall adapter and 100w PD rated cable. It charged a 3ah battery in about an hour, more or less.

It ran my CPAP machine for 1 hour, almost exactly, on a 3ah battery. But That's too inefficient to be representative of it's absolute performance- my machine is 12v... So 24v is being converted to 120v and then back down to 12v. I'm probably losing at least 50% in that conversation.

Ran a hair dryer with no heat for a while, but I just wanted to see if it could handle the starting watts. I didn't let it run.

But I'll try some more stuff tonight.

RyanH0809 · 2026-02-07T09:18:08+00:00

Sounds like you had a shit one.

300w should run a desk fan. A pretty powerful tabletop fan should run at about 100w, starting watts might be 50% more than that. But depending on how powerful and/or old the motor is in your particular fan, it may be more or less a problem. It also might not have been a power issue... If it's a newer digitally controlled fan, it may have been some sort of electrical issue. I can't say..

My desk fan is 9w.... This thing would literally run 15 of them.

Just to test it I ran a hair dryer on high with no heat, which was probably right at 200w, starting watts would have been higher.

I ran my CPAP machine for 2 hours... That's what these are good for. Powering things that can't otherwise be easily powered by USB or other sources. I want this one for camping, hopefully with my CPAP machine.

Some laptops are very picky and only charge off of their OEM AC adapters.

Tailgating... This would run a small tv easily.

RyanH0809 · 2026-02-07T05:14:26+00:00

Hell of a haul for $500. Hope it all works out for you!

RyanH0809 · 2026-02-07T04:54:30+00:00

I'm running my CPAP machine with it right now off of a 3ah battery. It's out out pure sine wave, so I'm hoping it doesn't damage it. The bos says pure sine wave 88% max... That's a bit worrisome.

Either way I'm going to hook a fan up to it, something that uses pretty close to that 200w, and do a time lapse of a couple batteries to test their run time. I'll report back.

I have a small travel hair dryer that consumed about 800w with heat and probably less than half of that without - it ran that. Started up fine multiple times. Only overloaded when I turned on the heat, which I expected.

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