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EGO 2.5Ah Battery + Nexus 150W Inverter + Std Charger $229 (RRP $329) + Delivery ($0 in-Store QLD) @ TradeTools

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EGO 2.5Ah Battery + Nexus 150W Inverter + Std Charger $229 (RRP $329) + Delivery ($0 in-Store QLD) @ TradeTools
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Elyxar on 12/10/2024 - 17:37 tradetools.com (1012 clicks)
Last edited 14/10/2024 - 12:59 by 1 other user

$100 off the 150 Watt Inverter Kit. Basically a free inverter and charger with the regular price of the (overpriced) battery. I've needed another battery for a while and won't pay the asking price but this is a buy for me.

EGO 56V 2.5Ah Nexus Escape 150-Watt Power Inverter Kit - PAD1501E

There are also 180W and 400W versions both with pure sine wave and built in LEDs but they aren't currently on sale. The 180W is newer and much more capable than the 150W and retails for only an extra $20 in kit form.

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  • finger on 12/10/2024 - 17:54

    The 2.5Ah batteries are pretty trash, mine cuts out using the boost function on the blower. Shame its not a 5Ah

    • Name on 12/10/2024 - 18:11
      +2

      Should follow up with their warranty team. My 2.5Ah battery runs the boost function fine (although it does chew through a 2.5Ah quick!). I've also had success with it on the chainsaw.

      Warranty was a breeze, my 7.5Ah lawn mower one kept cutting out and blinking red. I just sent them a video of it not working and they sent me a new one in the mail. Didn't want me to send the broken one back.

      • finger on 12/10/2024 - 18:32

        Yeah it was at the start but now out of warranty. My 7.5ah also blinked red and got replaced under warranty.i had to go to a service centre so never got to keep my dodgy one.

        • dlcx on 12/10/2024 - 18:37

          Yeah same as “name” above, I have no issues with 2.5ah batteries and the blower when boosting. No issues using them for blower, chainsaw and line trimmer, just less capacity vs the larger batteries but 2.5ah suits my needs fine

      • squiddles88 on 12/10/2024 - 20:33

        Drop the broken battery on the ground. Mine came good again.

        Managed to RMA it still, have 2x 7.5 now.

        • Elyxar on 12/10/2024 - 20:48

          There is a couple of videos on youtube of people fixing them. Doesn't seem all that involved.

          • Name on 12/10/2024 - 22:31

            @Elyxar: Oh really? I might see if I can find the videos and give it a go as I didn't discard the battery they told me to discard under warranty. It's just sitting in a cupboard.

    • justtoreply on 12/10/2024 - 18:39

      When they redesigned their batteries they also accidentally made new batteries incompatible with the old blowers. If memory serves though the blower would cut out even without turbo function though so prob not your issue

      • aNoPHeLeS on 12/10/2024 - 18:41

        Yep found this problem - pretty bad that it would be incompatible

        • justtoreply on 12/10/2024 - 18:44

          They also screwed up when redesigning their charger. The newer ones (years old now) look the same as the old ones but the fan doesn't ever turn off after charging completes. Which guarantees the fan is going to wear out. They should have put it on a 5min timer if they needed to cool the unit down

          • Nom on 12/10/2024 - 18:54

            @justtoreply: Hopefully they've used a suitable fan - you could leave a 50,000 hour fan (a pretty normal rating for a decent modern fan) on for an entire day&night every three days and it would still last well over 15 years.

            But you're screwed if they've cheaped out on a crappy fan 😬

    • quikstix on 13/10/2024 - 01:53

      zero issues with using 2.5 on my blower with boost or whipper snipper 2 and a half yrs in with alot of use.
      I have had one battery last a whole 10seconds after 2yrs and they sent me a brand new replacement super quick

  • Sleepycat3 on 12/10/2024 - 19:03

    140Wh at 150W is not much. It will be just enough to charge a few mobile phones and is essentially equal to 2x 18000mAh (75.6Wh) mobile phone powerbanks.

    • aNoPHeLeS on 12/10/2024 - 21:41

      Agree - it's not a bad deal but you have to ask yourself whether a 150w inverter is much use and whether you have enough batteries to make use of it!

      • outlander on 13/10/2024 - 10:57

        Even 150w still has it's uses. One thing in particular is if you have an instantaneous gas hot water heater, during a blackout people might think they are covered. But it requires electricity to make the spark to ignite the gas. So that's one use.
        Or more generally, running things like laptops.
        Or a heated blanket. Imagine your going to watch your kids soccer game. Its winter, its freezing. But you have a heated throw blanket and this. Not so bad now.

        So there are uses, if you use a little imagination

  • locknuts on 12/10/2024 - 20:18
    +1

    2 of my EGO batteries have died. I don't trust them.

  • Wiser on 12/10/2024 - 21:06

    Anyone used clone ego batteries?
    Really tempting prices

  • Elyxar on 13/10/2024 - 04:04

    One issue I have with the kit I bought today was that the battery was manufactured 10-2021. I'm wondering if EGO are clearing out old stock. The 180W model is a more recent release and has significant improvements over the 150W so maybe they are going to or already have ended this product?

  • pepper84 on 13/10/2024 - 10:05

    Any similar concepts with other brands?

  • chewbot on 13/10/2024 - 12:53
    +3

    I went in heavy to the Ego world, buying a big package deal 4 years ago and multiple bonus batteries via redemption. I am far from professional but I have found them pretty good.

    The problem is, I always thought I would justify the expense of the package deals by then buying an inverter to make use of all the extra batteries i have.

    BUT, they still haven't released an Australian version of the more powerful multi-battery inverters that the other markets have had for at least 5 years.

    Things like:

    https://powerplusparts.com/collections/generators-power-stat…

    3000 watts

    Can use anywhere between 1 and 4 batteries at a time.

    For me, it's not even about the massive level of power output, but I really like the idea of being able to plug in multiple batteries and overlap when they run out to enable continuous power.

    • stumo on 14/10/2024 - 10:15
      +1

      I think thats because it uses simple switching to provide 120V AC from the 56V DC battery. So swithing it on +56V on the AC pins, then switching it in reverse -56V on the AC pins. You essentially get the full 3kW of power straight from the batteries just using a couple of mosfets.

      You can't do this for 240V, it would require a totally different design and it would be very expensive to do for 3kW too.

      • Elyxar on 14/10/2024 - 16:13

        I guess you could grey import one and only use electronics that auto detect and use voltage down to 110. Probably not worth the trouble though.

      • chewbot on 14/10/2024 - 23:13

        Thanks for that explanation. It does make me feel a little less frustrated.

      • parad0x on 27/10/2024 - 04:31
        -2

        You mean like one of those complex things that is literally the product name…. Inverter things that you can pick up anywhere for a dollars? That's why we don't have them? Then home come I can go buy a $30 inverter off eBay, hook up ANY DC battery source, such as a tool battery, and use exactly the same process to generate electricity?

        Simple switching… I think you're trying to take what you know about DC and Bridge the gap. Switch Mode Power Supply is potentially a term most people have heard of in reference to the boxes on a DC power cable. This is an extremely complex method of regulation, which is why when one fails it goes in the bin. However it has some advantages, even in DC buck/boost in comparison to a regular DC-DC converter. Being, very small, very efficient (Common DC-DC circuits used today would be happy to make 80% efficiency. SMPS can perform in excess of 98% minimum efficiency, under the ideal measurement circumstances. SMPS are anything but simple, and require one to consider these factors in.

        SMPS does as its name implies, and switches (alternates) the current. But the manner in which they perform it to DC has been heavily invested and researched because its the best way to use our power.
        (Taking electricity from one pin, then flipping in the other direction (50-60 times per second)… But what was described above was the reason why we can't touch it without proper knowledge of the texh, the safety and more.

        So when we come to Inverting DC to AC, it's a relatively new concept. Solar has driven its innovation insanely to the point where it is not that bad. But going in that direction Only amplifies the issues. A few cents worth of components is built into everything DC powered to ensure that its getting what it needs… This doesn't quite work the same in reverse because devices are built based on the tolerances of power systems worldwide. Which can be different, but it's not switched mode AC coming out of your sockets. Firstly it's been stepped up & down to 240v and various other higher voltages and all sorts but it's within a tolerance that appliances are built to. A diesel generator does not produce "clean" sine wave alternation - and ask anyone who's in reasonably big IT why he can't just plug the rack into a gennie from Kennards… They, and other appliances, require a much cleaner source of power in order for their electronics to clean it up to provide what's needed at the nano/pico Watt world they operate it.

        Why don't we have them? Safety, liability,, stupidity, warranty, insurance fire, risk. The list goes on. Australia is a nanny state when it comes to many things and electricity is one of the strictest regulatory systems. Just ask a decent sparky how much time he spends educating himself into the flow of compliant that is Electrical regulation. And for good reason too - though it does shit me that I'm a licensed data cabler, worked around LV for years, I've got my own regulations with regard to LV cable - but it's illegal for me to grab a $20 quick-connect from bunnings, literally clamp it over the wire till it closes and provides a power point (which is really handy to have at times for certain reasons).. Not even in my own house, insurance is instantly null and void and if they can provie)(or you can't prove a licenced elec did the work, there's all they need to deny a pay out.

        You're never going to see Bunnings selling a Ryobi 2kw Battery Inverter. Ryobi wouldn't put their name on it, Australia would find every way possibly not to certify it, but if it magically did, Bunnings wouldn't likely stock it….People would die directly from its use. Whether it's fires or electrocution or any other manner is irrelevant. The level of current that's being put out by the newer HP+ "smart batteries" would be absolutely insane at times. I deal with Li-Ion on a daily basis, for over 10yrs, and I still drop and run if I pick up a cell that's hot…. 1 thermal runaway and you've got 50+ 18v One+ batteries that are going to go off like fireworks, burn hot as hell and essentially impossible to put it out. US fire authorities best solution has been to tow it to a safest possible location - usually impossible with the weight of them, then simply letting it burn. It's more than fire, it's a severely rapid exothermic chemical reaction. All water can do is keep a bunch of batteries not in touching, cool enough to not ignite.

        240v & 110v require EXACTLY the same design. That's not true there would be minor variations, but have you not noticed that the only thing that's different when you order internationally is the plug? SMPS are capable of dealing with either. Just like Inverters can run off 12v/24v etc they could run of any arbitrary number, (certainly nobody is running 56v systems who knowns any electrical theory, but multiples of 24v are generally preferred (and 12v works out to be a good working range for 4x 3.7v batteries: 3.2-4.2 0-100%=12.8v-16.8v The 18650's that started all of this but why know nothing about because it's highly illegal - qualified or not), even when you go down in voltage, lithium cells are always divisible by 3, right down to a button battery…. True lithium AA's not 14500'even tend to run up to 1.6-1.7, so beginning from the lowest voltage swhich is actually 1.6and the higher the voltage of the DC, the easier it is for the inverter.

        So much more I could say, but I had to at least reverse the lies being spoken about something so lethal… And being the internet, everyone knows best and has the only opinion and "facts" that matter which might work fine in fantasy land, but in the real world.

        Trurh is, it takes very little power to kill…. In the range of 100mA, I've read figures as low as 7mA, but I was always told 10 across the heart and game over. Australia compensates for the added danger, by introducing the 3rd Ground/Earth prong. Electricity will always take the path of least resistance. The theory being that in the fractions of a second before you die, the electricity finds its way to Ground, and flips the circuit breaker.

        Now, a lifetime of shit like that along with cross section of wire guages, current and voltage capacity at various distances, limits on bend radius of certain cables. I genuinely have utter respect for electricians, except for those who treat data like 240v…. But that all changed with fibre certification. There's alot less copper being laid. I'm about to re-lay my network for the final time and I'm sending 3 pairs of fibre up 2 storey to the roof. 1 covers needs now, 1 covers needs in 15yrs, and I'll be too old or dead to use the 3rd, but 100G duplex or 100G to 132x 10G - who knows by the time you time it comes.!

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