With technology coming in leaps and bounds since the past century, it is just a matter of time before your average garden and home sprayers evolve too. The evolution comes in the form of the electric sprayers, which is your typical sprayer using electricity to give out finer sprays and a wider range of efficiency.
The main advantage of an electric sprayer is that its spraying is constant and even, since the flow is electrically regulated. All you have to do is press a button and watch the electric sprayer do its job. The consistent pressure allows you to spray quickly and properly, ensuring a thorough job in the process. Another nice feature of the electric sprayer is that its dilution is exact. While this may not mean much if you’re just using the sprayer to spray water, when it comes to mixing chemicals for spraying, great dilution comes in handy.
Since the electric sprayer runs with electricity, the first disadvantage to this is the long electrical cord that goes with the sprayer. The cord effectively limits the coverage range of the electrical sprayer. For people who have big gardens, this can be quite a problem. A long cord can also mean frequent entanglements especially if you’re the type of person who frequently moves around.
Battery-powered electric sprayers are the answers to the cord-related issues of electric sprayers. Today, battery-powered sprayers are becoming more and more popular. The disadvantage of added weight due to the battery has become moot with the implementation of little wheels to drag the sprayer around. The only issues these models have are:
They are much more complex than the plug-and-use electric models.
Charging can be a problem, especially if the battery’s going bad. For example, the charge may show it’s full but when you get to the job site, you find that it’s completely drained after all.
The overall effectiveness and spraying capacity is limited by the battery charge.
An electric sprayer is a good choice if you want efficient and easy spraying with great results. As long as you’re okay with the disadvantages it has, then you should be fine with getting it.