Best battery blower?

[evo]

Lots of people work closer to power supplies. What about plug-ins?

I had it this past winter with power outages. When the power goes I’m unreachable for any emergency work. Around here ALL of our comm lines are underground, and I don’t get cell service at home. The solution was to buy one of those Glamping solar/battery backup power supplies. It’s nearly self sustainable to run the router and charge a cell phone.
No cheap and I got the second smallest. Battery and solar panel was about a grand. Now the storm/power outage season has passed, I’m trying to think of other uses.
I’m planning on mounting a second panel on the roof of the dump truck and keeping the battery in the cab.
It’s far from enough, but I really don’t need a lot of charging. I could charge all the sennas, get a charge or two on the husky battery’s (likely do a bit better if I got a DC charger, there has to be a power loss going from DC to AC and then back to DC).. and I could charge up the Milwaukee batteries. None of this would be subbing for just plugging into a clients home, but if you need a extra charge or two just to finish the job it will all be right in the truck.

 

[Boomslang]

Lots of people work closer to power supplies. What about plug-ins?

I can think of a few customers who would have seen that and demand you reimburse them for the electricity used....seriously.

 

[GregManning]

Errors:
@supertramp , I went back to check my test data (run time & charging) on my DeWalt hand-held blower (DCBL772).

It was much worse than I previously quoted.
9 AHr battery only lasted 11.5 min. at full power. ~2.5 hrs to Recharge w/ "Slow Charger" shipped w/ blower.
12 AHr battery lasted 14.5 min. at full power. ~ 3.0 hrs to Recharge

Watching Formula 1 Racing recently, w/ team budgets of ~ $145 M, they use various blowers for cooling brakes, engine parts, etc.
I noticed several teams using DeWalt battery & Stihl backpack gas blowers ! (Red Bull, McLaren, etc, etc)

Lots of other manufacturers, that I don't recognize; including some "corded" blowers !

 

[Vicente]

I regretted buying the Stihl battery top handle… wish I had invested in the husqvarna battery saw/battery system instead. Before making another mistake, thought I’d see if anyone here has had good experiences with any battery blowers… bonus if the batteries can be used for other tools as well.

What stihl saw and would you be interested in selling it?

 

[colb]

The best blower for me is the one that matches batteries in my power tool system. It is a weeny blower, but it comes out more often than my weeny gas blower. If I had a powerful blower (I've used the big Stihl for site cleanup and it is very noce), the weeny blower would still come out on more jobs. I do not remove trees much these days, so I need less blowing than I used to.

I'm casually curious how the performance of backpack lithium blowers compares to the big gas blowers. Anyone have experience?