Ego Nexus Power Station - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 

Thanks, brother, for the straightforward HONEST review! Much appreciated!

This review has the most accurate power output representation. Great information for someone who almost jumped on it. I was planning on using this as a buffer unit between my gas-generator and appliances. A portable AC and small fridge will draw around 3000W peak and 2000W continuous, this will be great for a hour or two. The draw back after doing simple math, it takes *10-12 HOURS* for the charger to fully recharge 4-5.0Ah batteries. I was hoping to run my gas-generator on eco-mode to increase run time during an emergency. I guess it's no go...

Thank you so much for the information and honest review. It’s hard to get through from people nowadays. I look forward to seeing your future videos

Hey I wanna thank you, was really thinking of getting this. Glad that you were realistic with expectations.

Great review. Almost bought it, good thing i check your review. Change my mind. Thanks again.

dont usually sub after watching just one video but your simple, easy to understand explanation without all the rambling and nonsense...of the performance and run time was great. thank you.

A common household energy star rated refrigerator will pull anywhere from 70-100w continuous. Therefore you could run a fridge from that power station with four 7.5ah batteries for roughly 13 hours.

Real talk , thanks for your sincerity , i am totally sure this video will be very helpful thousands of people out there, keep it real you have a new subscription in your channel

You did an excellent job on this and the information was credible. I’m listening and appreciate it. When I calculated the numbers, you’re right!!!! Nice product which I have the ego blower but the generator is not what I need for the long haul in Texas and especially when the Texas grid gave out. No such thing in philidelphia. Never had that problem back home. I love Ego products but the generator has not yet progressed enough for me. Thanks.

Great review, thanks a lot! Looks good for some power tool use & random stuff here and there.

Excellent review on this - thanks! I’m moving soon and will be picking an EGO riding mower that comes with EGO batteries. Seems like a no brained to get the bare nexus that is now available. Thanks!

Great review! This answered all my questions.

Good review. I'm considering one of these and I appreciate the advice. I think I'm going to wait for the price to come down a little.

This fully explains why I CANNOT run my portable ac over two hours before the unit shuts down 😩 thank you for this! I will be returning this product.

Great video! I was going to buy one, now forget it. thank you very much for the presentation.

Thank you for taking your time to inform the consumer. You helped me. Money corrupts some of these companies.

Wow. Actual electrical science applied to the design and performance of the battery. So refreshing! Most reviews are done almost as infomercials with kids running around in the background and people showing their clean garage floors. NOT HERE. Well done sir! I will be back. This is exactly why I come to RU-vid :^)

I liked your review a lot. Convinced me to save my money. Then I saw one of these at Home Depot for $999 (with two 7.5 Batteries). It was an open box, and they gave me another $50 off. So I figure, what the hell let me try it for 30 days and see what I think. I already have the Ego mower, hedge clipper, edger and string trimmer. My intended use would be for quiet power tent camping, running a portable fridge, small fan, recharging electronics. My jeep has 12V and 120V inverter outputs, so this would supplement that. My other primary use would be during power outages. We’ve had several days to weeks power outages from hurricanes over the years. I have a couple of generators (a 2K Honda knock off and a Champion 3400 gas/propane). The game plan would be to use the Champion to run an AC unit in the bedroom, the fridge and maybe a few other items. But I really hate running the generator all day when we are away from the house to keep the fridge cold. I think this unit would be great for that. Charge it at night on the generator, run the fridge off it during the day. Anyway, since I’m off for the next couple of days I’m experimenting. I plugged the fridge into it at 8:30 this morning. Its now 4 PM and the monitor says there is 2 hours of charge left. Of course that is based on the fridge drawing about 180 watts right now. Once the compressor stops, it goes and says there are almost 8 hours of time left (the fridge draws about 20 wats during idle). So this looks like a real possibility assuming I can get all four batteries charged during the night when the generators are running (I have 3 7.5 AHs and a couple of 2.5s. The 7.5 AH batteries seem to go for around $325 to $350. So I suppose for $950 I suppose I could look at it as $700 for batteries and $250 for the bare box. It would be even better if I got your price on the unit. The app is pretty so-so. It is kind of neat to be able to see what the charger is up to when you’re away from the house. Many of the times we were without power, we still had cable/internet connection. So I’d be able to check my fridge status remotely. I found out accidentally that if you touch the outlet control part of the screen, it toggles the power on and off. I accidentally turned the fridge off. Good thing I saw that or I could have been in big trouble. I want to see how it runs some of my power tools. I’d bet it similar to by 2000 watt inverting generator. It will run some of the smaller tools, then gag on my table saw or mitre saw. Jury is out if I’ll keep it. Its a lot of money, and seems to have fairly limited usefulness. Its nice to be able to use the batteries for something other than my lawn tools.

Great review - I hope EGO continues this. A much bigger generator, with 24 hours run times. This way I can run one, and using solar panels recharge the the other. Then Swap. We get a lot of tornado, and storms in Texas. During summers we even get scheduled power outages, because of demand on the grid during summers.

Great review from a truly independent reviewer! That is why most reviews that are sponsored leave me so dubious. I love Ego, but I hate misleading claims. Thanks.

informative, unbiased vid, decided to save my money after watching , thanks

Used mine during a power outage a couple weeks ago. Was able to run enough led light bars to pretty much light the house. Charge phones and tablets and run a floor fan and watch tv. . All inside. Made the 16 hrs without power much much more comfortable. I do have a Honda generator but never felt the need to fire up. If power outage went any longer I would have used that for the refrigerator. Luckily I didn’t have a stocked freezer so I didn’t really feel the need. More for convenience than for a major emergency. But sure glad I had it.

Thank you for this. I had thought about this device, but it looks like a larger Bluetti "solar generator" will be a much better choice.

Thank you Andy, this was super helpful!

Nice review. I have the exact same feelings about the unit overall. I have a bunch of ego stuff. Just a quick little addition...the batteries are advertised at 56volt but they are actually 52 volt. They are 14S batteries, that's a 3.7volt 25R lithium ion cell, 14 in series. Us engineers, we find this stuff funny;)

Great review. Love all the information you provided with an unbiased opinion. I just have 2 things, 1. This unit is a generator. A generator generates electricity using a rotational device, this unit just changes 56 DC volts to AC voltage. 2. Every generator advertises peak wattage over running watts for advertising purposes. 3000 watts sounds a lot better than 2000 watts. While it is deceptive, its unfortunately the way things work in the world. But great video. Keep it up.

Great review Andrew. The hard truth hurts. Love how you broke it down for home power outages, USLESS. We all know why we need generators for home, and it ain't to power no darn toaster!! I was ready to pull the trigger on the two 7.5a battery setup, but after this review for home power outage review, I have to pass and look for a quiet gas generator. I need to run 2 fridges in case of power outages, and this won't do. Thanks!!!

Nice review, Andrew. I have been using one of Ego's mowers for the past 3 years and have two of the 2.5 batteries. Can't see investing in bigger batteries and the nexus station for that little run time. Still searching for a unit that would be better for indoor use. The Apex unit has some mixed reviews though that will allow hook up to portable solar.

thank u soooo much for the video sir, i was thinking about purchasing one of these, thanks for the info

Best review on this product!

E-go did come out with the riding lawnmower 42" cut zero turn. May 2021. They also have snowblower and a multi attachment tool. I believe that has 7 different attachments. 2 attachments look like sweeper attachments (broom) maybe for lite amounts of snow? Also a tiller attachment. I love my weedeater and blower! Next is hedgetrimmer! Since I have a smaller yard I hope to get the self-propelled front wheel drive walk behind mower. It comes with main blade and 2 other blades u can attach. Mulching blade and a second clean cutting blade. Love saving the gasoline and electric with E-GO!

The new EGO 10Ah batteries help a little bit, though even pricier. They are not available bundled with the unit, so you would have to buy a bare unit and then 1 to 4 of the 10Ah batteries.

Ego should have came with a solar option for RV/ overland community.

They should have put a 12volt output on it. Most camping stuff is 12 volts.

One thing to be aware of with the EGO Nexus Power Station is that the Android app only works properly with Android 8.1 - 10 right now. With Android 11, bluetooth will work, but wifi doesn't. With Android 12, neither bluetooth or wifi will work. I have reported this to Ego after trying to get them to fix this for 3 months. I finally found an old Galaxy Tab S3 (Android 9) and was able to get it to connect to both bluetooth and wifi.

Thanks! very helpful review.

A lot of folks are looking at Ego batteries as solar charge storage from solar panels. Ego has to know there is a MASSIVE market just waiting for batteries (like ego) to come available to charge with solar power. Average home would need 3 ego power stations to make it thru one day (running fridge, ac/heater, tv, etc ). 6 kW is a start point. I have to know ego is all over this! HUGE, HUGE money in solar batteries!

VERY informative. Many thanks!

This is a common problem with power packs up here in Canada we have Canadian tire and they have booster packs with inverters and also inverters and they all advertise the the peak watts glad i found your channel i was going to phone tomorrow and try to find info about the product but your video answers them all and as far as I can see it has no USB FAST or type C nor a regulated 12 volt cigarette lighter plug either

Fridges don't use 700w continuously only when the compressor kicks in which isn't that often.

You have the 3,000 watt rating to allow for the inrush current for say, the compressor on a refrigerator or the motor in a sump pump. I have the two stage snowblower so, this could interest me, but it's easier to store gasoline for an unexpected power outage than electricity. Especially if you get the batteries and they discharged in maintenance mode!

I already understood the power capacity but the thing that bothers me is no 12v DC outlet. I was looking at it for camping and wanted to power my BPAP machine and it is better on DC. I think I am going with the Goal Zero unit. More actual a/h, cheaper and more compact. It's a bummer because I have a couple other EGO products and was looking forward to using the batteries I already have.

Pure honesty. Only if companies would take this approach

Thank you for that review! I needed the low-down on just how long these batteries would last and how many items I could run on four 7.5 batteries because I'm still thinking about getting one to run a couple of lamps to light up the living room and bedroom and charge our cell phones when the power goes out in an emergency. I'm really looking for the ultimate power station.

Thanks for the detailed info. I will stick to a gas portable generator.

Thanks for setting the record straight on this power station. Doesn't look like it would be a good multi-day power station for a camper or van.

This was a great review!

Candid opinion !!!!! Thank-you highly appreciated !!!!! Good man

Strange how they didn't do 3000peak/2000watts continuous like most generators I see. All the people I know with generators the same size as that ego unit never pull 2kw continuous. Just sporadic use as you mentioned this one would be used for. Good review man 👍

Thanks for a sincere review!!!

Thanks so much for the honest review,

Needs some plug in PV panel options. Some are getting close to 500 watts each in density.

Thanks for the great review.

Excellent information! Thank you.

we just got one of these at work. for $1,000. after seeing this, I think I'll reconsider, but however, if no one buys it and it gets cut half off, then I might reconsider. but yeah, if the generator would last longer (like for a refrigerator like 8-16 hours) then maybe I'd consider.

Thankyou for the valuable information

So can you do one on 150w power inverter by its self and compare it to this

Basically if it heats, don’t use this. My refrigerator is 180 watts so I could run that for a day and a half could probably stretch that out by raising the temp. I don’t have this one but I do have the little 150 and I was skeptical at best on it by reading numbers. Real world usage on a 5ah battery ive powered a 40inch led tv, a Apple TV box and an apple HomePod for about 5 hours which I’m impressed with. If there’s a storm and the powers out I can entertain myself for 5 hours which is rare to have an outage that long in this area. I have 3 ego batteries so I may get another 150 watt inverter for my networking stuff. The power station plus 2 batteries would be a go for me at $600

great review by the way

Good review sir. Stay honest and your channel will succeed.

Thanks for the infos, I'll wait for the milwaukee gen, since I'M a fan of milwaukee's tools. I have a subaru fuel inverter gen. 3200W and the peak is 4000W but they advertised a 3200W gen. But just like you've said this isn't honest from EGO.

i've watched a few videos on this unit, and I'll be a broken record by saying the same thing on all of them: This would be a game changer IF it acted as a UPS. I still think this is very good, no replacement for a true generator, but very nice. I think since I've invested in the EGO eco, it's a no brainer. The UPS thing... wouldn't it be great to plug the wifi and router into it? if the power goes out, you'd still have internet, without having to unplug from the wall and plug into the Ego. Handy where I live, since in my major metopolitan area, my 4g/5g is absolute garbage.

Great, honest review

very nice review, thanks, nicely done,...

Hey Andrew good review. If only ego made this solar compatible; it would have opened up a lot of possibilities. Any chance they will do this down the line?

I have 4 EGO garden tools, 5 Black & Decker battery powered garden tools, an electric car, and a solar roof on our house. But I have a gas generator. For me a battery powered station like this just doesn't fit in my household use because the available power duration is just too short. I can buy individual 20 lb cylinders of propane for the gas generator for 1/10 the price of an EGO single battery and run the whole house for 5-6 hours with it. Perhaps a battery powered bank like this might be a good addition to a gas generator setup so we could run laptops, charge cell phones, etc even while the generator is not running. A power station might be useful for a contractor for low power tools, or for a camping application.

Bare tool is now offered @499 street price. Perhaps an update to the review is in order.

Great review. You pointed out the misleading numbers for people to better understand. Unfortunately, it seems all the power station sellers operate this way. As to watt hours, it seems most only give you 80-85% of what the maximum number is. Their logic seems to be they dont want the batteries to go all the way down to zero as it reduces the number of times you can recharge them back to full status . They should just be more up front on this . Also it seems all power stations can't handle any big power hungry items for very long. You arent going to find anything that will power a decent size space heater for more than 1-2 hours, if that. You are spot on with the pricing. At 1360 usable watt hours, this should sell for $800-900 max and that includes the 4 7.5 batteries. I think this is a cool unit overall, though, and will strongly consider it if it gets down to that price range

Are any of these issue fixable via firmware?

Awesome real life review

Does this have the ability to charge and discharge at the same time. I want to have something as a battery backup for my sump pump. So I need to leave the sump pump plugged into this portable power station. I would also need the portable power station plugged into a 120v outlet. If the power goes out while I am not home, will the p.p.s. just automatically kick on, and supply power to the sump pump. Any information would be helpful. Thanks.

Hey Andrew, i have a nexus 3000 and i would love to see you do a youtube video on boosting the Ego nexus's output power. I believe if you combined the Ego's output to a power converter (120vac input to a 12vdc output) then add that 12vdc output to (3000-5000 watt) inverter to go back to a vac power, thus increasing your power out.you could conceiveable run anything in your household or garage for that matter. (What do you think?) Love to see your youtube video on this idea. (Bernie out)

Good review man.

Can anyone help me out? I got a power station from a company that closed and it supposed to have 2 - 7.5ah batteries but instead one was a non working 2.5ah battery. I called ego but they need a receipt and the company. How should I go about it? I dont have the receipt. Thanks

Very nice breakdown, it's great to find an honest review. Imagine a world of honesty!

The truth really come out.great review. I’m still doing more research buy I like this unit.

Good review. Most people powering a fridge report getting up to a day with 4x7.5Ah batteries (take with a grain of salt). It makes no sense to to run fridge for 30 minutes in a short outage. There's enough thermal mass to maintain safe temps for hours if you don't open and close the door a lot. As far a truth in advertising goes, the Goal Zero Yeti does about the same thing. 3000W surge, 1500W continuous for $3,000. Two quick other points: This type generator is the only option if you're somewhere you can't run a fossil fuel gen (like in an apartment). Also, these 120V outlets don't really put out 120V (more like 80), so some appliances may not work.

I was hoping this would be a solution for my vehicle fridge but unfortunately seeming like not the solution for me

How many cycles?

Best honest review ever.

Great video but the biggest problem with these that NO ONE is talking about is this is a very poor option for a power outages unless you remember to charge the batteries first, and no one ever knows when an outage will occur. Remember, Ego DOES NOT recommend keeping the batteries stored charged and in fact they automatically will discharge after 30 days. You could of course put the solar panels outside and wait a day or two for the batteries to charge :)

Thank you sir.

Nice foreshadowing 15:37 at the end of the video considering you can now get a 'tool only' Nexus for $499.

Great review can you do a goal zero 3000 yeti I really like the things you bring up to consider before buying it.

Thank you!

Wait so without the batteries 🔋 on the side its basically useless?

That you sir , I think I’m just going to just keep my goal zero 1400 because I actually have 1400 Watt hours available.I’m going to get a Inergy Kodiak Apex for my second generator again because I have 1100 Watts available.

I have heard a word or two about how the batteries are not very good in the reliability department. Thoughts? Good/Bad Experiences?

Love my ego power station

Does use lithium ion vs lithium iron phosphate which means much lower service life?

So in your opinion, what’s the best battery powered generator?

So say if you wanted to use it to cut lawns, is it still useful? because that what I was gonna use it for to keep my batteries charged

Honda does the same thing on their generator line: EU2200i, EU3000is, and EU7000is, but they can only product 80% continuously.

Anyone know how fast this will charge batteries? 2 7.5 and 1 reasonably priced quick charger is around 800 with tax give or take. if you can get one around 900, that isnt a bad deal.

I dunno. Never used products from these guys. The thing is, it saying 3000W or 2000W does not mean watt hours. I just didn't see it say anything that indicated they meant wh.

Can this thing run a portable dishwasher with an operating frequency of 60 HZ at 120 volts and 950 watts what's an average operating time of 99 minutes?

Thanks man

Well said!

“If they bought one and just kept the batteries…. More power to em.”

Is that amp hours you are speaking of? With the 2 (7.5 amp hours) how many aml hours on the unit that is available? That is a what solar battery stations a heating element takes alot! And coffee makers with hot plates. Id like to see a hot plate or a electric skillet and stuff you use to cook .wow I'm really mad! I'm looking for something was looking at the jackery 1000 but that seems disappointing too! Thank you! Have you found anything that is not gas powered thats worth it in your opinion?