I agree. It was the best purchase of my life! Living in Texas, it's a must have. I love my 18v air Cannon. So much so, I bought another one.

@@Miked1332 i'm about to buy another one soon too, here in the south we need as much air pushed as we can get lol

I had the 18" in tent while camping, it saved my life in the heat and kept bugs off me at night. I made a tube canopy out of a sheet and the constant air on low was perfect, no-see-ums can't fly in even a slight breeze.

Damn, where did you find that?

@@chillwill5080 Pawn shop. Was practically brand new. Almost no wear

@@georgelara3730 That's pretty sweet, I had one last year I used for camping two months in the Florida Keys. It would run for 6 hours on low with a 4ah battery. It was $140 at Home Depot.

I Have The 40 Volt Lawnmower, Leaf Blower, Chainsaw; so if I get the fan then I won't need any batteries, I have 4 of em so I'm stocked up & only use 1 of em a week. But I Always Pray 🙏 & Research before I buy. anything 13:16

… you only need a standard extension cord if the battery dies, and there is commercial AC available.

It’s called Ryobi being cheap. In the models with an extension cord option built in to the fan, the rectifier (power supply) is simply built into the fan. By moving it to a power brick that is external to the fan they can now source said bring from the lowest bidder vs having a custom engineered solution built inside the fan. I bet it makes warranties easier as well as the whole fan doesn’t need to come back for a dead AC supply. The power supply is most likely the same voltage as the battery. Internally they most likely use the exact same electronics. Designing a holder or retaining pouch for the power supply would have gone a long way to the major complaint of the power supply being forgotten or lost. Most laptops are 18-19v power bricks. I would be almost any of them would power the 18V version of the new whisper series. Ryobi needs to do user acceptance testing before removing the most popular feature of the hybrid fans, name using an extension cord ONLY to power the fan off AC mains.

Given the adapter that's being used to plug the 40v into AC power, I wouldn't be surprised if it's actually a 12v motor.

Thanks for watching and let's see the test!

Could have gotten a MUCH larger fan for that kind of money if all you do is plug it in.

Anytime air is more focused for the same amount of volume the air speed naturally needs to increase. This is not always desirable and can sometimes cause a chilling effect or may focus the air stream too much. It really depends on the use case. Cost for batteries is a big factor as well. 18V batteries are a LOT cheaper than 40V batteries at that point.

Both brushless

weird never had that problem myself

I haven't had that issue, however the new motor is really smooth

Buy yourself a kill-a-watt meter and find out. AC power use will be higher than from the battery. The fan motors are all DC motors so there will be rectifier and voltage conversion losses when running off AC mains.

@@notmethanks816 i would have done already if i had the fan. Problem: in europe i cant get the hybrid fan and i need the info to determine possibe components to build a diy hybrid. Important for my bying decision for this non cheap fan. (150 €)

But that is not how fans are compared for efficiency. Watts/cfm is the standard comparison. This allows comparing across different sizes, blade configurations, motor types, etc. Once that is done there is very little difference between the fans in watts/cfm. The 40V runs long simply because a 40v battery at 4ah has a power reserve capacity of 160watts. An 18V battery at 4ah is 72watts. The 40V has more than double the capacity. In reality the batteries are NOT 40V. They are 36v batteries. Two 18V packs in series. The exact same lithium cells are used in both battery voltages. 36V just doesn’t sound as sexy as 40V. It is really only 40V when it is 100% charge. Just like some toolmakers try and sell 20V batteries vs 18V. It’s just marketing.

theres a new 14" one its no longer 18"

There is no static pressure on a fan like this. That is only a thing with filters or ducting in place when moving air from one room/space to another.

Umm duh. For the same wattage motor a higher voltage will result in a lower current requirement. Ohms law and all.

Yeah I'm surprised this wasn't discussed in the video. The higher air speed will also throw the air a lot farther, which he discovered at 7:00 in the video.

The spec he was reading was for the maximum speed setting, but he tested it at the lowest setting. I think the low speed on the 18v fan is probably a higher speed than the low speed on the 40v. He should have tested at the max speed as well to see if there was a difference in runtime.