EGO Nexus Power Station Review - Hookup to Generator & Solar System
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- Опубликовано: 27 июн 2020
- In this video, we review the EGO Nexus Power Station. This portable power unit features 3000W peak wattage, and 2000W continuous. We show hookup to generator & solar system. Great portable power unit for power outages, camping, road trips, you name it. The EGO Nexus Power Station features 4 powered USB ports for charging phones, etc, and 3 120v plug in outlets.
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Great review. Funny I have the same generator and was looking at the EGO Powerstation for all the same reasons and purposes. Thanks for all the info and up close
Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.
Well done review that didn’t have me wanting to beat my head in while screaming “get to the point” like I have on so many other reviews.
Tell EGO we need a pressure washer :) Nice review
Thank you and I will pass it on! ....I totally agree it would round off their outdoor equipment line !
and a leaf mulcher
I’m really interested in the google PlayStation you mentioned @1:30 🤓 great review
Not any normal one but a Google PlayStation one 😂
Thanks for the review sir appreciate it
Do you know if the egos commercial backpack will work on the inverter. I know they sell an adapter to run the tools.
this is great! I have the smallest Jackery but we were thinking of buying the Jackery 2000 (but has not extra batteries to use it). I never heard of the EGO and love that you can have a cash of batteries to keep things going during an outage. Love that there is an app and the functionality of it. Thank you!
don't do it, my ego batteries keep failing
@@armadilllo you are prob the third person warning me about this Manufacturer. I am now going to wait it out and not do the kickstarter purchase. See what reviews come after a few months
I've heard that Ego was supposed to release a solar attachment for the nexus. It's been awhile since they said that.
It's nice to know that you can charge it in a variety of ways.
Ya I have talked with ego they say they are working on it it would be nice to plug panels directly into it!
That's what I've been looking for. Solar panels will take this unit to another level.
Waiting for Laura to arrive, need solar panels yesterday
Is it confirmed to be an attachment or will they release a new power station with it built in? I'm about to buy one but don't want buyer's remorse if they come out with a new version.
Great vid! If you are charging your EGO station with solar and get to 100% what happens? Do you need to unplug right away or can it remain plugged into the solar setup without damaging it?
Amazing system and great video. Can it charge from the mains outlet or solar panels at the same time as you power your lights, computers etc. ?
What size refrigerator did you power over night. I am curious how long it will power a full size frig on one charge? No one has actually tested this.
great job, answered most of my concerns. i know you kind of covered but genset was drowning out some of the audio. did you say that you can hook up a modified sinewave genset to the ego and it will still operate with no adverse affect?
Yes sorry the ego and the generac are both pure sine wave
Anyone hadluck getting the Ego backup unit to connect via WiFi? I can get the Bluetooth running occasionally, but not the WiFi feature for the app control.
Great explanation.
Thank you very much!
Holy crap that’s a lot of Ego batteries.
probably a stupid question, but can you use a power strip for any one of the outlets off the power station to use with a larger number of smaller wattage appliances etc??
Yes you can! Thanks for commenting!
Sweet video.. Great job showing a whole bunch of EXAMPLES of how useful this bad boy is. I will subscribe to your channel and I have to buy one of these units.
Thank you erythromycin much!
I have one and use it in my RV to run needed things (Microwave, TV's, Heating Blankets) without having to turn on my loud propane generator. It's my understanding the Home Depot no longer has the contract to sell EGO equipment. The contracts are now held by Lowe's and ACE Hardware.
Ya you right sad story ......but I get it home depot is big but so is ego!
Your dialog was way above average because you rapidly covered many scenarios in a short amount of time. I like your mentioning about the pure sine wave output. Pure sine wave is super important even for non-computers. Sloppy square wave AC can bang the crap out of AC motors that were designed for clean sine wave AC. Next time, turn off the radio and your demo lights that put out excessive glare, although, I am wondering if this was on purpose to create a sort of gorilla in-the-field broadcast ambiance. You also are clearly the King of extension cords. Also, I did not know that the Nexas has a sub-par charger. The fast charger that came with my 10 amp hour battery on my new lawnmower is awesome, fastest in the industry by a long shot (about an hour to charge from empty).
Thanks so much ppl like you is why we do this . Your a smart 👨 and I appreciate it
thanks for this review. I'm looking for a solar power station for weekend trips in my van. Can you charge the power station and use it to draw power at the same time?
No it doesnt and only charges one at a time.
Can you charge the largest size battery on the fast charger with the cigarette lighter in an rv? How long would it take to charge if it is possible?
I don't think so it takes lots of amps on dc
Are you able to plug your battery charger into the EGO station and charge the batteries instead of using an independent charging source?
Seems like that would be the best thing to do... Nobody says on any videos if they do that. The rapid charge one would be best to plug into the egostation and if you have as many batteries as this guy you would be good forever I think.
Is it possible to use this power station to jump start a car?
Does this allow pass through charging? (Charging batteries on the power station while drawing a load off the station)
Thanks for any help. This video was great
Curious to know this as well. Then you can tie this into your solar system and use it like a UPS.
@@longle7603 after looking around a little more I dont think it can do pass through charging - if you find something different LMK
No it does not pass through. I have three of these and can confirm this for you. It will not charge unless plugged into a live outlet, it will not allow the use of battery power without being unplugged first. It has two seperate modes (charge and power) and plugging it into the wall changes the mode into charge mode. Unplugging it and turning it on changes it to power mode. It does not pass through.
@@6milhunter thanks!! Why 3? Do you use them for different things? In different places? How many battery packs do you have?
@@thinker2328 I use them for backups for refrigerators during power outage and since we have so many ego products the three keep all of our batteries charged as well. We do have multiple locations right now and so we keep them in different locations. Also having so many batteries allows us to run the window unit and refigerator all night and recharge the batteries during the day by generator during power outages. This allows us to reduce generator fuels storage by ~50%
Would be nice if Ego had a Miter saw like , Dewalt ,Milwaukee and etc .
will it run my ac?
Can the inverter power a device simultaneously while a battery is in recharge mode?
Unfortunately I don't think so
Do you have a video on your solar system and what you did to make it?
We will do one soon on it ! Thanks for asking!
@@GongshowGarage would be interested too!
The batteries will auto deplete after 1 month down to 40% for storage so if you're trying to store energy in the ego batteries they will deplete after a month.
@@strange-universe every day use multiple times they last like 2-3 years in hot climates, if you keep them cool not cold and use them like 3-4x a week you'll probably get like 10 years out of them or more.
@@strange-universe check my you tube channel out I have almost every ego tool.
I want one for my e-trike.
Just hook up an inverter/charger to a 24V battery bank and put it behind a multi-input switched PDU with one side running to mains and the other running to several inverter/battery banks on pdu input ports 2,3&4. When that energy runs out then it will failover to generator power. Behind that PDU run another dual input pdu that switches from inverter input power to generator input power (manual start generator) or if your generator supports it like the westinghouse one does just connect the failover to the automatic transfer switch with auto-start. Your battery bank AND your mains must fail before your generator ever needs to be started.
what size inverter would i need to connect this on my solar, how much is the draw alone, say i want to just use this alone on a inverter
I will test that soon! And post it
@@GongshowGarage I want to use ego tools in my Lawncare business and want to buy this instead of regular charger as I get more value but I want to know what size inverter I will need to say run 1 unit ...
Is it okay to charge EGO batteries using a regular portable generator I have a Champion 1200 watt genny
Yes u can. I have a firman 1000 watt genny to charge batteries. I use the fast charger and 2 standard chargers
@@nathandingman6846 it was an unndder charging soiotuation not an over charging
under load not over load
How long does the solar would take to charge 4 7.5ah batteries??? All day? Multiple days? I wonder if it’s worth it, I have a enclosed trailer that I use to mow lawns and I’m starting to swap my lawn gas equipment to ego, I would like a setup to recharge my batteries on the go, I heard of a inverter with a power bank like a rv or solar but didn’t think solar would we powerful enough to recharge the ego batteries
It works but because there is no fans to blow through the batteries it cycles the charges it works very well for me if I had higher demands I would use the fast careers off a inverter if need be
That would depend on which chargers you use and your solar system's capacity. You could charge all 4 of the 7.5ah batteries in about a single hour with four rapid chargers and a solar system that is producing more than 2000 watts to accomdate the 4 chargers.
@@6milhunter I am trying to figure the same problem out rapidly charging on the go as an EGO powered lawn maintenance guy! Would the solar charger over 2000 watts need to be connected to a pure sine inverter? Trying to do this the fastest and most cost effective way. Cheers!
Gongshow Garage do you think the nexus will eventually have option to quick charge all 4 batteries ?
@@gregderossi Yes sir; if you were in a rush; you would need a battery bank that could handle a 2200+ watt draw, and an inverter capable of 2200+w continuous. I am under the understanding that these rapid chargers need about 550w to charge. You could check that with a "kill-a-watt" meter. I have not charged these on modified sine wave, but I believe it would work fine. There are a lot of ways to do this, but I would run the 2200+w solar system into a bank of three 12v 100ah batteries in parallel connected to a 2500-3000+w continuous modified sine wave inverter (cheaper) connected to 4 rapid chargers. This system could also be done off the alternator from a running vehicle using a 3 battery bank without solar as long as the alternator produced more than 160amps at 13.7v running and the vehicle was not on electrical load. You might be able to easily plug in a 600+w power inverter into a 12v port and do one battery at a time as long as the vehicle was running as well. That would be a lot cheaper. Hope it helps.
Using this for emergency backup, presumes you plan to have batteries sitting around that are fully charged.
Which is one of the worst things you can do to a lithium battery. Lithium wants to be stored long term at approximately 50% state of charge. Storing at higher charge states slowly damages and eats away at the lithium chemistry.
Many battery’s meet their demise from sitting long term either on the charger or simply being fully charged.
a much larger station, with lots of batteries kept at around 40-60%, with the ability to press a button to fully charge a battery for disconnection and tool use... an ego powerwall. please
The new EGO batteries automatically discharge down to 30% and go into a "sleep mode" if not used for 30 days. I'm Consistently amazed by EGO products.
@@HeadCannonPrime this little trick is why so many people return EGO products for "not holding their charge".
Can you use the 10ah batteries w/ this?
Yes you can! They left room for them
I like their stuff but batteries are so expensive, I may go with Ryobi’s Inverter bc I have a bunch of their batteries but for now we still use our Gas Homelite 5500 watt gas genset
"Gotta put some hair around it" hahaha
Love it best coment ever! Lol it my favorite line !
Or you can just charge EGO Power from your car outlet?
If you have a inverter you can but it would take a lot of power to do it
In my area, at least, last year (July 2020) THD dropped EGO so you need to go to Lowes - a better DIY store anyway.
How long can i run a 500 watt space heater on this device?
Depends on which batteries you're using and how many batteries you're running at a time. 1 smallest battery @ 2.5ah is about 20 minutes. 4 of their biggest batteries @ 10ah is about 4 1/2 hours.
Why not just plug in the super charger into the generator directly? The nexus seems very inconvenient
Is the beer cold
You bet buddy
You bet !
i want this, but with 50 batteries, and with the ability to hook up to a large solar array
Lol I hear ya they keep saying there is a update coming
@@GongshowGarage like powerwalls are great and all, but lots of my tools are electric, so it makes sense to have the batteries for my house detachable when I need them. Most practical.
Home Depot quit selling ego, my ego batteries keep failing and they replace them with other junk ones, I came out the other night and one of my batteries was flashing red just sitting on a shelf not hooked to anything and it was hot! I'll keep my honda generator which has never failed and cost half what all this crap does.
That’s 3g of ego batteries!
Tell ego we need a solar charging option
They just announced one, the 1800 charger a couple days ago. It will be available in stores soon.
Without a solar input Im not interested. Going from DC to AC to DC again is not efficient for charging.
I see a lot of bad reviews on the lifespan of the Ego Bateries...
you can't use it while the charger is in !
Yes your right!
10 grand in a generator a ego generator batts.. when you could of bought a proper solar system you can get 350 watt panels with a charge controller mppt and 5 or so deep cycle batts onese used in telecom are best... for the money you spent on all this
He said he gathered all his friends batteries for the demo.
Put some hair around it!.
I caught that too. LOL
Google PlayStation lolz
youve got 5 grand in inflated priced batteires their lol ego is the most over priced battery ever. double what it would be for a 7 amp hour one 250 bucks for a 9 amp hour any other brand 150 bucks
ego batteries are amongst the cheapest of power tool batteries, per wH
Ego company is very deceiving just like many other products coming from overseas, it doesn't generate 3000W, with 7.5amp 4 batteries, it won't produce even 1500W. Do some math, 7.5amp x 56v = 420W, Even you combine 4 of them, it produces only 420W x 4 = 1680W. So its peak power may not even pass 1500W, because lithium battery runs about 80% of efficiency. Beyond that it will damage battery life. It works for you only because you have stacks of batteries, but you should mention that each of those batteries are $350. Batteries that truly produce even 2000W should have like at least 75-100 amp such as Titan, Yeti, etc. Do some math, 100 amp x 24 v = 2400W. It may produce, let's say 2000W, but how long can it sustain? True 2000WH battery should have enough power to sustain 2000w for one hour. Ego may sustain 2000W like for 30 min. If you use it as a contractor to use a chop saw at work site, it may work. But how long do you run a chop saw, like for 10 seconds for like 60 times through out a day? That makes only total run time 10 minutes.
I'm not 100% sure but I think it might boil down to the difference between watt hours and watts.
Yes, each 7.5aH@56V battery has 420watt hours. The inverter capacity is different from the watt hour capacity. For example, the 1500 Yeti has 1516Wh (10.8V, 140.4Ah) as far as watt hour capacity. At the same time it has a 2000W (3500W surge) inverter.
The real question here is the cost.
Right now, the 7.5amp@56V batteries are 430 and the base unit is 500 - so to get a total of 1680 watt hours (164 more than the Yeti 1500) - you have to plunk down $2,200. The Yeti currently is $2,000. Of course, the real "value add" here is the Ego ecosystem.
Also, I'm curious to know how much longer until they finally launch the rumored solar charger. That's where they've dropped the ball on the tailgating/camping market.
Anywho -- someone can correct me if I'm wrong on the watts vs watt hours - but I wanted to put this out there in case folks got turned around. I don't own any Ego products or GoalZero products, but I'm someone who has been researching inverters, batteries, etc.
@@qwickening Inverter doesn't create energy. It only changes how we use it by increasing voltage. what if it has 3500W peak inverter, it couldn't even start table saw, Why? Who cares if it can generate 3500W for one second or two? does that have any practical meaning to it? Power depends more on Amp it can draw, but that is the limitation of battery. If you draw more amp than battery is designed, it will overheat, and cause internal short, and battery will be damaged. If you truly looking for high performance battery, look at something like Titan solar generator. It will run your table saw, and air conditioner nonstop. and compare what the true difference is. I don't have any of them. just pointing out from engineering point of view.
Your math is wrong because you mixed and dropped units. Amp-hours is a measure of storage capacity. That means the total of what it can provide over time (the hours), not what it can supply at any instant. Amps is a measure of what it can instantaneously provide.
The cells in Ego packs are rated to provide 20 amp or 25 amp depending on the pack, and the 7.5 amp-hour batteries have 3 cells in parallel for a nominal 60 amp to 75 amp supply. (However I suspect the Ego wiring in the pack is not that sturdy.)
20 amp at 50 volt is 1000 watts.
With four batteries each capable of 25 amps at 50 volt, that would be 1250 watts each for a total of 5000 watts. Plenty to match the 2000 watt surge capacity of the power station.
Of course those are instantaneous values. How long can it provide that power?
A 7.5 amp-hour battery at 50 volts (it will not be at the peak 56 volt for very long, and 50v is conservative and easy to math) can provide 7.5 * 50 = 375 watt-hours. That is the same as providing 50 watts for 7.5 hours or in an ideal world 375 watts for one hour.
Four of those 7.5 amp-hour batteries can provide 1500 watt-hours, or 1.5 kilowatt-hours which is the same as 500 watts for 3 hours or 1000 watts for 1.5 hours (90 minutes).
@@Sylvan_dB if you connect batteries parallel, how can it make 50V?, non-sense, if you make paralle, you may get 20 amp, but you will still have only 7.5 v. if you stack it up, you may get 30v, then it will remain 20 amp. That is how batteries are designed. You may pull out more amp from battery and damage, or over-heat the battery, but you can't increase voltage in parallel.
Four 7.5Ah egos can absolutely hit 3000w current draw.....but it would only run for 30 minutes.
I think where you are getting confused is there is combined 1680Wh (capacity) across those 4 batteries not 1680W (current). Batteries can discharge at way more than 1Amp. Usually they can discharge around 3C with no ill effects which would be around 22Amps in this case.
If one were to parallel four 7.5Ah egos they would make a 30Ah 56v battery. Each of these 7.5Ah egos is a 15s3p configuration. A 15s3p pack can surely flow 20Amps of current in a surge, I bet they can sustain 20Amps...(I bet its more like 50-60Amps of current at max surge).
To hit 3000w current draw @ 56v you'd need about 55Amps combined across 4 packs. That would make for a little under 14 Amps sustained. If one were to attempt this, they should expect about 30 minutes of runtime.
That being said, this isn't a powerwall...it's a DC > AC inverter that can keep a light or two on and keep your freezer going in the event of a power outage. I'm sure it would be great to use in a camper or at a job site. One should not be considering this product if they have 3000w sustained demand, in those cases generators that run off decomposed dinosaurs would better fit the bill :)