TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoHearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blowerhub.jhu.eduexternal-linkmessage-square172fedilinkarrow-up1614arrow-down113
arrow-up1601arrow-down1external-linkHearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blowerhub.jhu.eduTheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square172fedilink
minus-squareKillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down6·2 months agohow they did it: they used an electric motor.
minus-squarekerrigan778@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 months agoThey started with an electric leaf blower as a baseline. Theirs is 40% quieter than the current electric leaf blowers on the market.
minus-squareKillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·2 months agothat’s pretty cool. Unfortunately not very many people seem to use electric leaf blowers here, and even if you were to transmute that addition to an ICE blower it wouldn’t make a difference considering that the engine would still be loud as fuck.
how they did it:
they used an electric motor.
They started with an electric leaf blower as a baseline. Theirs is 40% quieter than the current electric leaf blowers on the market.
that’s pretty cool.
Unfortunately not very many people seem to use electric leaf blowers here, and even if you were to transmute that addition to an ICE blower it wouldn’t make a difference considering that the engine would still be loud as fuck.