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On 11/28/2024 12:11 PM, David Lesher wrote:
> Electric snowblowers are a joke here given the limits of ~2KW.
> If we had 30A/240, they could 5.7KW that would actually kick butt.
> It's one of few things I envy the British about.


I always found 10HP to be the practical minimum for a snowblower.
You could probably live with less if you were sure you would always
have nice DRY powder.

I was never that lucky.  Instead, it was always at least 6 inches
of "slush"!