EGO Power+ Nexus Escape Power Station - 150w Power Inverter - Lowe's

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06-21-2021 at 09:24 PM #2

I owned one of these things for about a day back when Home Depot was clearing them out. This represents a swing-and-a-miss by Ego. They call it a "modified sine wave" but according to my 'scope it wasn't not much more than a square wave. This limits what you can use with it. Inductive loads like AC fan motors are a no-go. Ego should have spent a few more dollars and slapped a real sine wave circuit on it.

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06-22-2021 at 07:40 AM #3

These were on sale 2 weeks ago for 15% off and stacked with other discounts. I picked up the nexus hub and it fried first use.

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06-22-2021 at 09:33 AM #4

Same price on Amazon if you wanted to get it cheaper with store card + prime day bonus coupons. https://www.amazon.com/Nexus-Esca...B07HCGMPZC

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06-22-2021 at 02:18 PM #5

Can this be used to power a CPAP machine?

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06-22-2021 at 02:34 PM #6

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These were on sale 2 weeks ago for 15% off and stacked with other discounts. I picked up the nexus hub and it fried first use.

Interesting. Yesterday it show $99 everywhere else online.

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06-22-2021 at 07:56 PM #7

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Can this be used to power a CPAP machine?

"probably should not use this on anything expensive", literally what a customer service rep said after explaining issues I had. These things can destroy many devices, they have a super rough output full of spikes of over 220 volts, I went through 4 of them before finally getting through to one of their engineers and learning this was not faulty units, they are just made that way. A $10 inverter generator m Walmart had a much cleaner output than this, I even tested several super old inverters from work and failed to find anything even close to as bad as this unit. Unbelievable. I plugged a $100 lasko fan into this and it fried it instantly, lots of other similar situations I have found on the internet. Avoid at all costs

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06-22-2021 at 08:22 PM #8

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"probably should not use this on anything expensive", literally what a customer service rep said after explaining issues I had. These things can destroy many devices, they have a super rough output full of spikes of over 220 volts, I went through 4 of them before finally getting through to one of their engineers and learning this was not faulty units, they are just made that way. A $10 inverter generator m Walmart had a much cleaner output than this, I even tested several super old inverters from work and failed to find anything even close to as bad as this unit. Unbelievable. I plugged a $100 lasko fan into this and it fried it instantly, lots of other similar situations I have found on the internet. Avoid at all costs

Thank you for the feedback.

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06-23-2021 at 12:16 PM #9

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I owned one of these things for about a day back when Home Depot was clearing them out. This represents a swing-and-a-miss by Ego. They call it a "modified sine wave" but according to my 'scope it wasn't not much more than a square wave. This limits what you can use with it. Inductive loads like AC fan motors are a no-go. Ego should have spent a few more dollars and slapped a real sine wave circuit on it.

do you know if the similar smaller Ryobi 18V version?

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06-23-2021 at 12:34 PM #10

Used this for a couple outages to power small electronics. Never have had a problem

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06-23-2021 at 01:05 PM #11

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Used this for a couple outages to power small electronics. Never have had a problem

Same here. Never had any issues

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06-24-2021 at 09:46 AM #12

Does not include the battery.

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06-24-2021 at 04:46 PM #13

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Does not include the battery.

hell no. there batters are like 300-400

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06-28-2021 at 05:03 PM #14

I have both ego and ryobi battery, and I have the inverter from ryobi. I don't see why this will be better than the ryobi one if they both output 150 watt... you can get the ryobi for much less than this if you do the battery deal......

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07-07-2021 at 04:15 AM #15

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"probably should not use this on anything expensive", literally what a customer service rep said after explaining issues I had. These things can destroy many devices, they have a super rough output full of spikes of over 220 volts, I went through 4 of them before finally getting through to one of their engineers and learning this was not faulty units, they are just made that way. A $10 inverter generator m Walmart had a much cleaner output than this, I even tested several super old inverters from work and failed to find anything even close to as bad as this unit. Unbelievable. I plugged a $100 lasko fan into this and it fried it instantly, lots of other similar situations I have found on the internet. Avoid at all costs

Wow, I have one of these and that is a worrisome comment. Is there something that I can plug into the device to prevent damage, or should I only use in specific cases? I find it great for camping and charging phones or portable projector. I was about to buy another..

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