Snow blower stalls on light snow 

It worked, but this video makes it much more difficult than it needs to be. Just pull the cover off the right side with the 4 torx screws and wrap some electrical tape around the connection of the blue wire. Thanks for making this. Real life saver.

This is incredible troubleshooting. Well done, thanks for posting!

Two things....you should def submit this to Ryobi so they know the issue. You probably found it and they may not even realize all the people complaining about this, this is the issue. Second, i would also wrap some good cold temp resistant electrical tape around the bar you pointed out. So if the shrink wrap fails or if someone doesnt have any or a heat gun, a small thing of electrical tape wrapped around the bar might also work.

I can't wait to try this on mine! Thanks for posting! Go Jets!

Great job figuring that out!

Excellent video. Great job trouble shooting. Thank you.

Thanks!

I just got a used one and it’s doing the same, I’ll tear into it tomorrow and find out if I have the same problem. Thanks for the info!

You just gave me green light on a ryobi snow blower. So simple yet ryobi has probably lost $$$$$ with all the returns.

You have a brushless motor and I think the data line is supposed to be to signal sending more power to the motor if things start to bog down. I have a Ryobi brushless lawn mower that will spin up faster if I hit some thick grass. It tries to auto compensate like a gas engine would do. I've had a similar issue with a similar Ryobi 40v snow blower that I'm about to take apart so this was very educational. For me I think I may have damaged the safety bale cable that goes from the handle to the unit, so I'm about to take it apart and see if I can just patch the cable if it's not a tension cable and is just a switch line. Wish me luck! I think I may actually record my progress and if I get it working, post it on youtube because there's so few videos showing how to fix this shutoff issue.

Super helpful video, thanks for figuring this out. Do you recall what model # your snowblower is?

My Kobalt snowblower does the same thing when temperatures are in the single digits, some I have to disconnect and reconnect the battery to get it to start again.

There are lots of negative reviews of various Ryobi 40v snow blowers that exhibit the same issue. I wonder if it's all due to static.

Great job! Thanks! I do chainsaws in Calgary, are you out west too?

I just tried my snow blower after many years without use, it worked fine the first part of the storm, in the middle of the storm i tried again, it blowed some heavy snow and shut off and it didn’t start until I removed the battery and tried it again and it just touched the snow and shut off , and notice the spinning of auger sound slow and weak. Do you have any idea why auger sound slow And weak, I checked inside of the snow blower and it is different,now the three wires (red,black and blue) attached to a big white plastic connect so the static is not the problem

I believe there was a recall on this snowblower because of the issues with it, you may want to check into that

Could this the same problem on the new 21 inch Ryobi whisper series?

Mine just completely stops and then I can't even turn it on again. it won't stay running long enough to take a pass. and its only two years old. :(

Mine has started to do that as well. And when I start it up it turns on/off for quite a few times before staying on. I just got it this fall and have only used it half a dozen times.

Thousands of unhappy customers, and returns... because some idiot didn't put the wires in the right place...

Pure garbage of a snowblower. Plastic, no skis so gets caught on every crack and not a steal leader so it will wear out faster than a show shovel that has a steel blade. Other than that its perfect.