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Hey, I just watched your video Jeff. Thanks for the different charging options. I was curious how long it takes to charge all 4 batteries on solar charging
For all us Nexus Power Station owners, I'd love to extend the life of these units with a LiFePO4 battery, ideally a 5KWhr 48v Server Rack. If you take an EGO Link backpack adapter (BH1001), and remove the connection cable from the backpack (or simply buy a replacement cable ARC1500), can you connect the backpack adapter to the Nexus slot, and the other end of the Link cable directly to the + & - leads of the LiFeP04 battery. This would be a great option for us in the EGO ecosystem. Thanks much.
Thank you for this video review. Very informative. Unfortunately, it doesn't have pass through while it's charging... that is a deal breaker for some people. Hope EGO will make one with pass through feature build in to the power station. Thank you again for this awesome video.
Yeah this is definitely a product that Ego needs to replace, and I hope they do soon. I have a full range of Ego tools up through a Z6, over 20 batteries, and additionally live off-grid with a decent-sized solar array and LFP battery bank. The Nexus is a decent substitute for a small portable generator for running a lot of stuff, and even allows me to transfer power from Ego batteries back into my main battery on occasion when I need it. This solar charger isn't all that useful due to the low wattage limit and inability to do passthrough charging. If you're depending on using the Nexus all the time it makes no sense. It's expensive for what it is. But I bought one anyways...why? I often have the Nexus sitting in my shop or an old house I'm renovating (I power the whole house panel off the Nexus!). I use it in those locations occasionally, or haul it around my property to run electric tools, but most of the time it's just sitting there. I already have an old 100W panel seeing no use, spare wiring, and another panel can be found for next to nothing. I might as well plug it in to solar when not in use for anything else, and even with slow charging, 90% of the time that will keep me from having to carry empty batteries back to my main power source and full ones back. It's a one-time relatively small investment that will pay back small rewards for a long time to come. It'll be nice to do some work one day and leave some batteries depleted to half or so, come back in a couple days to do some more and find the batteries fully recharged and waiting. So despite the room for improvement, this still seems useful. I hope that Ego comes out with a newer Nexus that pushes the output limit up to 2500-3000W (which would allow more useful higher-demand equipment to be used without overloading it), offers better efficiency (the Nexus inverter is only 77% efficient converting the DC power to AC, versus my primary inverters which are 94%), allows for significantly more charging wattage (whether from AC or solar), passthrough charging, and refines the design. Ego has been good about improving their products over time so I think it's just a question of when. Ego's smaller 400W Nexus Escape does offer passthrough charging with USB-C already. In the meantime, I think this is a useful component for folks that have a Nexus and understand the limits.
Nice solar setup, A 100 watt solar panel can charge pretty much anything, I recommend instead of charging the EGO thru solar its better to have the 100 watt solar panel charge a 200 amp LiFePO4 battery then us an inverter to recharge EGO with 120 volts. This will guarantee a full charge even if there is no sun light.
Interesting idea. It would also quasi-unlock the ability to charge and use the Nexus at the same time - not technically, but it would not waste as much daylight.
Sounds like a good idea. I'm confused on how that would work. Prime day today and I'm looking into getting a panel the power station and the ego adapter thing. But that battery bank thing has me thinking
@@daveezrin1896 My current setup is 100w panel to > EPEVER MPPT Charge controller to > 12 Volt SOK battery to > WZRELB Inverter 3,000 watt. This can pretty much charge any power tools / more batteries or run device under 3k watts. I just need to buy more solar & batteries to have more run time but everything is expensive especially the batteries. But its cool to have an off grid small system. My current goal is to have a 600w system to power a small window a/c even if for just 8 hours to cool my house a bit more with free solar power.
Excellent showcase. I’ve been looking at the power station for about 2 years now as a generator alternative during hurricane season. I’m saddened to see supplies are so limited. Thanks for the original review and the solar charger.
13:25 I been using Ego products for about 18 months now and I never knew you could press the power indicator to see the battery power level. In the past I had always just looked at the indicator while the tool was running.
Great video. Thanks. Your solar panel should be adjusted to whatever your latitude is. For example I live in at 48 degrees north so I set my panels at a 48 degree angle. Cheers.
To me I think the biggest seller is the replaceable batteries. Most power stations have an integrated battery. When they reach the end of their life, unless you are particularly technical minded, it is junk. With this you simply add or swap batteries and you are still going. You could theoretically have an extra supply of batteries on hand as well. Plus there are less expensive EGO alternatives. The slow charge towards the end has been termed the 'stadium effect'. Think if you go to a sporting game and you are there first. You can get to your seat very fast. Show up just before the game begins and you have to maneuver around lots of other people to get to your seat.
Would you recommend this still? Good video just wondering if its worth buying? I'm curious how long can you run like a small electric heater for camping if you had 4 fully charged batteries? would it last a few days???? Keep in my mind I got EGO tools so it makes sense for me....
Hey KC, I have several of the EGO tools and I bought the solar panel to help charge the batteries for that use. The Power station is good, but it would be nice if it had pass through power (able to use the unit while still charging the batteries) like some other power stations. For the price, its not bad however for running a small electric heater even with 4 batteries, you're only going to get a small amount of time before the space heater drains the batteries. I think I got 15 minutes from a 5Ah battery running a small space heater.) We also use this power station when camping and for running small DJ speaker setups for cocktail / background music when we don't have power to plug into. For emergencies, depending on how many batteries you have, you can run a sump pump for quite a while as well as a small refrigerator, but you'll need a way to charge up the batteries (either solar or someone elses house with power). I would recommend it, but it all depends on what you want to use it for. If you need it to run things such as a fridge, heater, lights and more for several days then I would go with another system such as the Ecoflow Delta 2
This is good for small loads. Any sort of electric heat is a heavy load. You'll be hard-pressed to find anything that could keep you warm by heating air with battery power while camping, because the amount of battery that could handle it would not be portable. Propane or another fuel are more dense. I would recommend using a heating pad instead - those use much less power and can still be quite comforting in the cold, especially when paired with warm bedding. You also wouldn't need this big of an inverter - one of Ego's smaller inverters that run off a single battery would be sufficient, though this larger one would allow running a lot longer without changing out the batteries.
I’d get this system if it was pass through charging and could use up to like 1000watts solar. Would there be a way to use solar to charge batteries with quick charger?
Have you ever tried using more than one panel at a time, with the adapter that the EGO manufacturer recommends? They say you can use as many panels as you want as long as you do them in sequence (not simultaneously).
Thanks for the video, I did a quick calculation and it will take 15 to 20y! to pay for itself considering the cost a 100 w sunset panel and the charger around $300-400 total (assuming you have the power station already) this charging 4 - 7.5 w twice a week using solar (that if you have enough sun). 0.03 c per battery full charge @ 0.090 w/h rate. This a luxury option only for the day your electric company in your country dies. I charge mine with my propone generator when I am out of power during the day to use them at night so the generator is not on the whole day and so it is quiet at night while connected to 2 fridges which will require 2x4 7.5 but in the morning all is still cold.
On my 6th day without power I find the combination of battery packs and Generator to be better than either alone. The cost of the solar panels and batteries and the generator are all mitigated by the fact I could stay in my own house for $30 a day instead of a hotel for $80 a day and I saved $200 worth of food in my refrigerator instead of spending the day dealing with disgusting rotting food when I got back. With the battery packs I didn't have to run so many extension cords around the house for things I was only going to use briefly nor did I have to use them for lighting fixtures. There were several periods when the house was cool and I would have only been running a generator to keep the refrigerator and freezer and I was able to put them on battery power and saved about $6 worth of propane each day.
I'm looking to use it for mostly air conditioning for when I'm down stairs working on stuff. I want a garage for. What I'm wanting is a way I don't need to have power running to it. So my biggest curiosity is if there is a way to put more panels on the portable power station or what's the best panels with the highest wattage one that can be on it.
Hi Jeff, I currently have EGO products and have four 7.5 Ah batteries. I'm looking at the power station to use in case of a prolonged power outage for only essential use. I can always keep the batteries charged with my rapid charger before any emergency but am I able to hook up more than one solar panel in series for a quicker charge time with all four 7.5 Ah batteries installed? Thanks, Chuck Richards, Boise, Id. BTW, keep up the good info.
Hey Chuck, the power station manual says it has a max solar input of 200w for charging. So you could hook up solar panels equivalent to that, but apparently that's the max. I appreciate the comments, thanks for watching!
You can use MC4 combiners to connect a couple 100W panels in parallel, which is a good fit for this which has a 180W limit, not 200W. The Nexus will only charge one battery at a time, whether on AC or solar power. It will alternate between them, not charge one fully before the next.
Question tinker forward. I would much prefer to use newer portable solar panels that are probably more efficient. Why would they recommend that panel ?
Any ideas for a emergency outage type solar generator to buy? Something to power a fridge, freezer and lighting in a house. Would the ego do it? Or how about 2 ego nexus stations?
If I had it to do over again, I wouldn't do the EGO Portable Power Station and the Solar Charger. My 15 amp hours of batteries won't keep the fridge running over night. Now - it would work better to plug it in, get the fridge or freezer down to temp, then unplug it and keep the doors closed. Then just repeat every four hours. If I did it over again, I'd get one of the other self contained units for a power outage.
I have the breaker panel in an 1800 sq ft house wired up so that I can plug it into my Ego Nexus and run the whole house off of it. I am able to turn on every light in the house and a large attic fan to circulate air, and still have enough power to run a shop vac, drill or other small tool, etc. Now more generally I might have less than half the lights on, the fan not running for too long, and mainly using power tools. I can get several hours from one set of batteries, and change out the batteries without interrupting power. A fridge or a freezer should be okay overnight with large capacity batteries, but you won't be able to recharge even one set of 4x 10Ah or 12Ah batteries on a sunny day with this solar charger, nor would you be able to run anything off the Nexus during charging.
@caseygina3553 thank you for the response! Ive actually been looking at wiring up 2 ryobi power stations as they can. E connected together and having a crap ton of already charged ryobi batteries i should be good for a couple days
This is something that makes this unit pretty special. None of the all-in-one non-modular units can do that, nor can you use their batteries directly in other tools.
