Vantrue T800 Electric Air Duster (not a Dashcam)

EricSan said:
That's quite the industrious little bugger, huh? Funny that it's been able to evade your efforts for such a long time.
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Quite common in the UK, they build webs good for 70Mph, so even a T800 Airduster is going to have difficulty dislodging it, and they will build a brand new web every night!


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Nigel said:
Quite common in the UK, they build webs good for 70Mph, so even a T800 Airduster is going to have difficulty dislodging it, and they will build a brand new web every night!
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It's the spider I want to dislodge. No spider, no web. Until another one moves in.

Maybe I need a side-facing dashcam on timelapse mode to watch the spider and see where it's hiding!
 
EricSan said:
Nice analysis, Julian! I don't have another unit to compare to and I only had a day or two to play with it before my daughter took it back to school 400 miles away... But now that it's been pointed out that it works well for drying coated cars, I might need to get another one for myself...
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Thank you.šŸ˜€
That's why I thought why not compare the specs that I can measure.

I will report back here in a few days after I cleaned and dried my car again.
 
TonyM said:
You know, you could have inserted that image as a thumbnail...! šŸ¤£
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I was just giving you a warning about what is inside the pdf file! šŸ˜€

TonyM said:
It's the spider I want to dislodge. No spider, no web. Until another one moves in.

Maybe I need a side-facing dashcam on timelapse mode to watch the spider and see where it's hiding!
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I don't think it will help, they are pretty hard to dislodge even with a water jet!
It will disappear in a few weeks time anyway, time to prepare for winter.
 
@TonyM - maybe you could leave your unwelcome tenant a fresh cup of coffee to sip and see what happens:

It's probably got a protective funnel web behind the mirror to protect itself from wind and rain.
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Julian23 said:
That's why I thought why not compare the specs that I can measure.
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I seal coated my driveway last weekend and was wishing I had the T800 in my hand to clear the debris from the cracks while I was prepping the surface. My air compressor goes to 120psi, but doesn't deliver much volume or pressure once you are more than a foot or two away.
 
EricSan said:
I seal coated my driveway last weekend and was wishing I had the T800 in my hand to clear the debris from the cracks while I was prepping the surface. My air compressor goes to 120psi, but doesn't deliver much volume or pressure once you are more than a foot or two away.
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Sounds like you needed a good leaf-blower. We have a lot of trees and many, many leaves every fall. We have a
hand-held blower and a back-pack blower. The back-pack model will blow a brick around!
It will also spin me around if I don't watch my footing. That thing really has a lot of power, even at distance.
And I'm 265lbs dressed for fall weather.
 
EricSan said:
I seal coated my driveway last weekend and was wishing I had the T800 in my hand to clear the debris from the cracks while I was prepping the surface. My air compressor goes to 120psi, but doesn't deliver much volume or pressure once you are more than a foot or two away.
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The T800 could work in that distance as we saw in your videos, but a big leaf blower would make it even easier.

The use cases for the T800 for me are where you can't use a bigger tool like a leaf blower or just want to quickly blow something away without having to get power cables, etc.
To name a few use cases: dry the car, blow dirt and dust away from the interior, clean the PC and peripherals from dust, quickly blow leafs away in the garden and more. It definitely has it's use cases where it shines and that are nearly impossible to cover with a leaf blower.
 
I have used the T800 several times to dry cars after washing and also to blow dust out of tight spaces in the interior.

Most of the time I do not even need Mode 3. The power is already more than enough.

Battery life is excellent. I can blow water off the large panels and out of the gaps, then finish with a microfiber towel. (the paint needs to be coated obviously)
It makes drying fast and easy. After drying two cars with several minutes on the highest setting, the battery only dropped to three bars. Even with a large car you will not run out of power.

For smaller tasks it is just as effective. Cleaning a keyboard takes a few seconds. Blowing dust from a PC or other electronics is no problem. The T800 makes quick work of anything that is not firmly attached.

When fast charging at 30W the handle near the USB port does get hot, but not too much.

It's a nice tool to have around!
 
When this popped up i was thinking " we might need one for our fireplace " but the hew heat source are surprising fast and easy to get going, so i think we will carry on as usual.

At our firepit we have at times used a leaf blower,,,,,,, way overkill, but its that or two anemic weak ass old guys on their knees doing little good.

BTW same leaf blower, excellent for clearing clogged down pipes from the rain gutter,,,,, mind you care have to be taken / quick feet.
 
Julian23 said:
For smaller tasks it is just as effective. Cleaning a keyboard takes a few seconds. Blowing dust from a PC or other electronics is no problem. The T800 makes quick work of anything that is not firmly attached.
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And is way easier to carry through the house than my heavy pancake air compressor. Keyboards, desktop computer cases, etc...
 
Not the Vantrue T800, but it's interesting to see what the similar Wolfbox does to a snow-covered car:

 
Ha- pretty cool! I suspect the T800 will work just as well for light snow. My daughter has been LOVING the T800 for leaf removal from her car. She just messaged me this morning to tell me she forgot to recharge the battery šŸ˜‰

Just looking on Amazon, I see the Vantrue T800 is on sale for $60 plus another 10% discount, for a total price of $54. This is the lowest price I've ever seen for the T800.
 
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I have been using the T800 in the past few days to clear snow off my car.
It works extremely well for this use case if the snow is dry enough. I did not have to use any brush and risk scratching the paint.
A very nice tool! Turbo mode is recommended for the best possible removal.

Drying cars after washing them works fine if the paint has some kind of coating on it. It can even be the cheap one from the car wash and it happily removes any water droplets.
If I try to get everything as dry as possible, then I have a runtime on Turbo that is enough for 2 cars.

Removing dust from the interior or a keyboard is easy work for the T800.

A bit of criticism goes towards the battery indicator.
It will stay on 4 bars for a long time and then suddenly drop.
It just showed me 3 bars and I wanted to use it again but after a few seconds, it turned off and blinked all 4 LEDs to show me that the battery is empty.
I hope this can be improved in the future. @Jeff_Vantrue
 
Julian23 said:
I have been using the T800 in the past few days to clear snow off my car.
It works extremely well for this use case if the snow is dry enough. I did not have to use any brush and risk scratching the paint.
A very nice tool! Turbo mode is recommended for the best possible removal.

Drying cars after washing them works fine if the paint has some kind of coating on it. It can even be the cheap one from the car wash and it happily removes any water droplets.
If I try to get everything as dry as possible, then I have a runtime on Turbo that is enough for 2 cars.

Removing dust from the interior or a keyboard is easy work for the T800.

A bit of criticism goes towards the battery indicator.
It will stay on 4 bars for a long time and then suddenly drop.
It just showed me 3 bars and I wanted to use it again but after a few seconds, it turned off and blinked all 4 LEDs to show me that the battery is empty.
I hope this can be improved in the future. @Jeff_Vantrue
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Thanks for the feedback. This looks like a battery calibration / ā€œvirtual chargeā€ issue. Weā€™ve already forwarded this to our team for deeper analysis. Once we have an update, weā€™ll share it. Appreciate you pointing this out.
 
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