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I hate to break it to you, but electric ones are loud too. It's the blower that is loud. Not the motor. I have a big ass backpack one and it's not any louder th
by olyjohn 3y ago
I hate to break it to you, but electric ones are loud too. It's the blower that is loud. Not the motor. I have a big ass backpack one and it's not any louder than the little handheld electric one I have.
- viraptor 3y agoNot "across the street loud". I've got a Stihl electric one and I can barely hear one working in my own yard. It's just slightly louder than a hairdryer.
- silisili 3y agoThey are loud, but not nearly as loud. Few things in common days are as loud as an unmuffled 2 stroke at WOT. Numbers provided elsewhere in the comments put the gas version at more than 10x as loud as electric.
- bitshiftfaced 3y agoA search says gas powered is 80 - 100 dB (vacuum cleaner to blender) and electric is 65 - 70 dB (washing machine).
- TheCoelacanth 3y agoAnd decibels are logarithmic, so 80-100 dB is 10 to 1000x times as loud as 70 dB.
- pandaman 3y agoNo, the reason we use logarithmic scale for noise is because "loudness" is logarithmic i.e. as the power of sound grows exponentially the perceived loudness grows linearly, so 80 db is 15% as loud as 70db (it is 10x more power though).