Recent content by MikeQBF

I have an acre of "mongrel" lawn with six old trees, all of which have surface roots that confound easy mowing around or over. If I wasn't careful, I would occasionally bang my old rider's deck against one, sometime bending the lip enough to rub the blade. Then there were two or three instances...

Very little EGO chatter on this forum, so either nobody's buying 'em, or nobody has problems. ;) Seriously, two updates to mull if anyone is interested. First is Home Depot discontinued carrying EGO earlier this year, and is now fronting their house brand, Ryobi. I bought the EGO 21" pusher...

Call it an "early-adopter tax". ;) Oh, yeah, I know what you mean! It is sort of a teething-pains issue as everyone jockeys for market position. I'm less concerned about this with the CC rider because it's not relying on a consumer-handled modular battery system, but an allegedly...

In a word, NiCads are passé. Lithium-based systems are overall a superior solution. For one thing, Li-Ion is cheaper to manufacture for the equivalent capacity. Then, products containing NiCads were barred from sale in the Eurozone in 2016 due to cadmium-content regulations. So any US equipment...

Many reasons. Lead-acid batteries have what is called a linear discharge curve. This is where the available voltage decreases with use. Second, as the charge is depleted, high loads cause the voltage to sag even further, rebounding only when the load is removed. These two conspire to make the...