EGO Battery Vs EGO Generic Battery Part 2 

I just ordered the 5ah one from Amazon to try it first $105 ( w taxes there was a $5 off coupon), put it on the EGO fancy charger with the 4 lights on top, battery flashed red out of the box, I left it on there for 5min and it then charged from 1 bar green to full charge 4 bar green!!??, stick it on the mower and it ran, BUT on the charger it still flashes red!! I’m going to return it asap! Not worth $100 if it’s already dead ; I’ll try another brand and get the 9ah one and try my 🍀; Probably cheaper to hack two car batteries together to make a 48V xx ah hour battery and make a shelf on the top of the mower to just use cheap lead acid or AGM batteries 🔋

Love this lawn mower, I would highly recommend. I usually can mow my front and backyard 3 times before recharging.

I am glad u r having good luck with the battery. For me having the ego warranty is worth spending the extra money. Especially if u r buying the bigger batteries.

Can’t wait for the generic tools to match!

Thanks for this.

Thanks for letting everyone know how ego warranties work. I found out the hard way. Saved 50 bucks on a 7.5 ah battery from ebay. Had a defective battery after 6 months and ego wouldn't replace it.

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I have a small yard that I can use the Ego weedeater on it but kills me, anyway, the battery died so I looked on Facebook and seen the 20" mower open box for $125 but had no battery. now I have a Ego mower and weedeater and no battery. I started looking again and seen the price was around $120 but remembered seeing a new blower with a 5.0 battery and charger for a $150...mowed the front yard in 10 minutes with hardly any effort and the side in back in about 20 minutes and had plenty of battery for the trimmer and the blower..the battery only lost one slot. very pleased with all 3 products..the battery needs to be replaced (trimmer) since I bought it in August of 2022..it lights up green for about 5 seconds then blinks red?

When I went to do my first cut of the year, my battery died immediately. I thought I was going to have to file a warranty claim but I recharged and it worked fine. I did not know about the hibernation feature. Thanks!

Great.

Great description. Interesting that there is no thumbs up option to give you a good rating. i see it is worth buying an authentic Ego replacement battery

I have a 5ah battery for my backpack blower, on turbo mode it doesn’t last long at all. I gotta get a bigger battery, thanks for the video.

Thanks for the video. I wonder when EGO will use newer batteries like the 4680s.

1 year update? I've been using ego brand since 2018. I had one battery that went bad in a year and they replaced it. I have three (all 2.5 amp) and they have lasted pretty well. One is from 2018, one from 2019, and one from 2021. The 2021 item is having some problems, but I got it with a blower from an unauthorized dealer. For the most part ego has been great about handling warranty claims. That's one good reason to go with the authorized dealers. The downside is that I feel like the tool shouldn't fail within in the warranty period.

Good

One of the tests EGO had me to do test the battery is unloaded run time. They said to run it non stop and the threshold for the battery to still be good is 27 minutes. I turned mine on and used electrical tape to hold the switch closed. You don't have to rap it more than one and a half time. It would be interesting ... to test another. Do you use the same EGO charger and how that look and work.

Thank you, Nathan for the follow-up and new RU-vid post. Still nervous about the generics. Is it possible EGO products can somehow determine you did not use official EGO battery and therefore (in the event of a warranty claim), prove that and void the claim due to misuse or abuse? I went out and tried official EGO 5.0 AH and 2.5 AH batteries in the EGO Nexus Power Station. The Power Station recognized both batteries and it came online. First up was the 2.5- I started my Hoover vacuum and it ran about 10 seconds and errored out, flashing red, orange, and green repeatedly and vacuum immediately cut off. Next was the 5.0- It ran the hoover for all I needed, about 10 minutes and used 1/2 the battery capacity. It's enough for a fluorescent light for a lot longer, I'm sure. I went back and visited the 2.5 as it sat, same error lights; Power Station recognized it, and so I plugged in a 14" oscillating fan. Ran for 15 minutes and barely reduced battery capacity. The error lights remained on the entire time the 2.5 was on the Power Station. Now, I need to figure out if the battery is fubar. I just ran one last test on the 2.5... when off the Power Station, battery indicator shows GREEN- Good news. Put in the lawnmower and it worked like a champ. So, there seems to be an issue with the 2.5 on the power station, thus I have determined that NOT all EGO batteries power ALL EGO devices perfectly. Oh well- this was a fun exercise. Still going to circle back with EGO about the error light when 2.5 is on the charger. Thanks for your RU-vid Channel; I appreciate you.>>>>Update 5/20/2022. Ego agreed the 2.5AH battery should work in the Power Station with no errors, so they are shipping me a new battery today via UPS; also said I don't have to return the battery that errors out on the Power Station. Very nice -

I'm willing to bet most people throw away batteries when they die. It's hard to find the metals. No wonder batteries are expensive. I wish more would ♻️

So the generic Ego is ok to use.👍

I bought a generic 56V 12 AH for $241 to be used in my zero turn mower, and it was about the size and weight of an EGO Power 5 AH. At 4 lbs. 5 oz. it is considerably smaller and lighter than the EGO Power 10 AH batteries that came with the mower. How can this generic battery be 12 AH with this kind of size deferential? I’m going to do a test between the EGO 10 AH battery and the generic 12 AH in my push mower, since it only uses one battery, and time them. Anybody done this?

FYI....The amazon link to the generic replacement battery included in your above posting is not working.

amazon link in the description no longer works

So, you bought an after-market and it did not work properly. Then the company sent you one that did work. Did you check the inside to see if it really is an after-market or if the after-market company switched out the insides for EGO insides? That has happened before to other video creators.

Also, I have to think that opening your battery voids your warranty.

Will it work on the power station??

Bella speaking, do you accept cooperation? If you have any thoughts, please let me know! 😉

When buying 12.0 I save $200-$250 no difference thus far ego vs generic

The whole problem with Ego batteries is that it makes no sense to buy just a battery. Here is an example of what I mean: 2.5 Ah battery - $160 Standard Charger - $99 Total $259 Ego 24" hedge trimmer with 2.5 Ah battery and standard charger - $195, a few buck more than the generic battery (and no charger), way less than the Ego battery and charger purchased separately and you get a (very nice) hedge trimmer to boot! Basically, it never makes sense to buy just the battery when you can get an entire kit for about $30-50 over the price of just the battery. And then there are sales on the kits too.

None of this is meaningful without information on how much money is saved with the generic battery. EGO batteries are cost-prohibitive. They likely lose a lot of sales as a result.

Hi, Nathan. we've got 10% code of 7.5ah battery. will anyone interested?