I don't care if it's electric, gas, whatever but what I do want is for it to be remote and for me to be able to use it without having to move it myself by hand. I am not lazy, I have a screwed up back and my knees are junk. I still clear the snow anyway but it always sucks. I just don't want to spend like $5k on some shit that is probably going to break in stupid ways that I won't be allowed to fix and requires a "app" or "cloud" to work.
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>If you live in snow country and own a home, you either have a snowblower or wish you did. The alternatives are either an expensive and potentially unreliable plow service, or back-breaking (and heart-attack inducing) shoveling. [RCLifeOn] was one of those people in the second category, until he decided to do something about it: electrifying a scrap snowblower with a blown engine.
The usual brushless DC motors and electronic speed controllers [RCLifeOn] has on hand to get his R/C life on with don’t quite have enough oomph to handle both functions of a snowblower. For those of you cursed to live in warmer climes, the modern snowblower is both self-propelled via its twin wheels, and generally has a two-stage powered snow-removal “blower” consisting of an auger to break up the snow and an impeller to blast it out of the machine and many meters off the driveway. On the traditional gas-powered models, these are both powered via belts off the same motor, but that wasn’t going to work.
I don't care if it's electric, gas, whatever but what I do want is for it to be remote and for me to be able to use it without having to move it myself by hand. I am not lazy, I have a screwed up back and my knees are junk. I still clear the snow anyway but it always sucks. I just don't want to spend like $5k on some shit that is probably going to break in stupid ways that I won't be allowed to fix and requires a "app" or "cloud" to work.
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From the post:
>>If you live in snow country and own a home, you either have a snowblower or wish you did. The alternatives are either an expensive and potentially unreliable plow service, or back-breaking (and heart-attack inducing) shoveling. [RCLifeOn] was one of those people in the second category, until he decided to do something about it: electrifying a scrap snowblower with a blown engine.
The usual brushless DC motors and electronic speed controllers [RCLifeOn] has on hand to get his R/C life on with don’t quite have enough oomph to handle both functions of a snowblower. For those of you cursed to live in warmer climes, the modern snowblower is both self-propelled via its twin wheels, and generally has a two-stage powered snow-removal “blower” consisting of an auger to break up the snow and an impeller to blast it out of the machine and many meters off the driveway. On the traditional gas-powered models, these are both powered via belts off the same motor, but that wasn’t going to work.
