@@ometofu I already have the big ego power station and 3 ecoflow power stations, a grecell power station and a golabs power station with a 900 watt solar array. I think this new ego 400 watt unit is an awesome little unit
Just ordered one, it will be handy in an emergency. One less cord to have while it is powering up a computer or maybe a small chest freezer for me. This is a real good reentry for EGO, to have a serious product in the portable battery power supply arena. Thanks for the videos.
I am buying one sole based on your video. Hey, big manufacturers.... Sponsor this guy and send him free stuff to test out. Great video. Keep up the good work!
Great video, thank you very much Since I have one Ego 765 Leaf Blower with a 5.0 Ah Battery, I don't use the battery for anything else Buying this converter would allow me to have local power for a while when I need it when working on my car, and I don't have an outlet nearby. I normally take out my Honda Generator to fill that need, but now I could get this Ego PAD5000 for those momentary usage which I think is great. This put this nice large battery to use for other things besides leaf blowing as at the moment I don't own any other Ego tools.
I think it’s important to clarify that bigger batteries CAN absolutely provide more power. However, many other things also need to be considered such as the power draw, and voltage configuration of the batteries. The power inverter had a maximum power level that is far lower than the limit of both batteries. Therefore, the larger battery will only give you a runtime advantage.
Yes, the video author clearly has not used the 2.5 ah batteries with an Ego snowblower before... can it power it? Yes. Is it as powerful as a 7.5 ah battery? Absolutely not. Runtime is not the only difference... The bigger 3000W Nexus inverter will even show you the wattage difference of what you can power when you install a single 2.5 ah battery vs a 5 ah or 7.5 ah battery.
My only comment, or question, would be, If you have it plugged into your home outlet, everything would work as well. Can it charge a rapid charger for continuous power when the power is completely out? For continuous battery swapping?
Thks for the videos and all the the tests you made on the nexus You have helped in making up my mind on the 400 inverter will be buying one soon. Especially since I already have 4 barrettes laying around which I could be putting to use to charge up other stuff Espically when I am in the backyard and the fact that I can run my fridge of freezer when the power is out this is truly priceless Thanks again😊😊😊😊😊
Thanks for testing the Nexus Inverter. Was there any testing done under different loads to measure how long 2.5, 7.5 & 12 etc ah batteries would last in hours/minutes?
I'll have to add that inverter to my list of Ego items to get. There are some solar panels that will output to USB-C. I wonder if that would work on that unit.
Interesting that the 400w Nexus can do something that the massive 2000w Nexus Power Station can't -- technically that means one could theoretically connect it to a solar panel and provide live power while keeping the battery topped up.
Rancias por tus explicaciones, tuve la oportunidad de decidirme a comprarlo, en mi zona tiende a irse la luz seguido y esto me va a ayudar con el refrigerador y varias cosas mas
HELLO! Have you done a test for the EGO PAD5000 100W in? In other words, have you investigated if the EGO battery on the PAD5000 can be charged with a 100W solar panel? That would be a super helpful video for campers all depending on the time it take because, if possible, you could have endless electricity. Thank you for your consideration!
Something to consider, did you see our 400w ego inverter solar test 5min SOLAR TEST EGO 400w Nexus Escape Inverter EGO PAD5000 th-cam.com/video/_v6pNB4KZTg/w-d-xo.html
Just got first unit. Love the lantern! Lol. Didn’t know there is this bright lights at the bottom! Going to test out my garage fridge with 10A to see if it lasts overnight…
Thank you… Great test! I love your channel. I’m considering this device. Question: Could someone use a 100w solar panel to charge a battery on this device? That would be ideal in a power out situation. At 100W maybe 5 or 6 hours to charge a 10Ah battery?
Great testing. I have varied sizes of portable pure sine inverters: a 300w and a 1500w and a 3000w. This one would be a definite buy if it were more centered between my existing 300w and 1500w (if it were 600w to 800w, ideally). Still, it seems so convenient! (And much more useful than the older 150w model.)
Very nice review. From all the different portable power solutions, I like this one the best. As the inverter and battery are separate. You don’t have to throw the entire thing away when the battery ultimately goes bad.
Total harmonic distortion on most pure sine wave inverters is actually lower than what your electric service provides. Meaning it’s actually ‘cleaner’ than the grid.
To be honest, I was torn between this of the power generator, and this seems to be a much better set up just due to the pastor if they would have brought the pass through to the generator, then we can talk
Alway enjoy your videos! One thi g to note, when tesfing tbe passthrough charging it would been begter to only have a power drain of less than 100 watts to confirm that tbe battery actually was increasing in the charge feagure. Meaning that it would take alot !onger but a trickle charge is actually happening. Just my 2 cents. Otherwise your reviews are done extremly well and always appreciated. Thx
For all us Nexus Power Station + Nexus Escape owners, l'd love to extend the life of these units with a LiFePO4 battery, ideally a 5KWhr 48v Server Rack. If you take your 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 LiFePO4 battery. This would be a great option for us in the EGO ecosystem. Thanks much.
Wow , great information and review , I definitely have to add this one to my ego products , i have the first gen , not overly impressed with it , but this one looks nice , I wonder if they will be doing some sort of update to the bigger nexus to be able to do the same passive charging while in use
I want to use my Nexus 400 Inverter to run a 110 volt 300 watt 60 Hz Heated camping pad. I have the Nexus 400 inverter and I have a Ego 5.0Ah batter. Any idea how long I can run my sleeping pad on this set up? Any calculator I can use? Thanks
Hey buddy I hear you. My house fridge doesn't pull 300w consistently, it might surge for a moment around 250w but mostly uses 60w. A lot of people get confused by the size of an appliance and think a smaller Appliance uses less wattage but as you can see from my statement above it's not the case
@ernie5187 I always try my best at the end of the day it's important to understand and I'm glad the information helped you now thanks for being a supporter of our Channel 👍🏻
This is great but someone please help me understand, how is pass through charging useful if we’re not using a solar panel. Why would you not just plug the device into the outlet you’re charging the battery with?
In the case of solar charging out and about I love that I can charge my phone while I'm charging the battery using solar. Other than that, I don't see any other use cases with this device
I bought the inverter and I have a four amp battery. My question is when i put the battery in the inverter and turn it on, one light blinks like I’ve already depleted 20% and I just took the battery off the charger. And after five minutes the battery and inverter is warm as if I have a load on it is this normal.
Hey Al, Great info - thanks for the video. My PAD5000 is actually arriving today - very excited! Have you ever tested the EGO Nexus Power Station for the same pure sine wave energy? Should be a quick, simple test - I'd be curious if the results are the same as their new inverter. Thanks!
Awesome testing…. You know I was wondering if you had a projector you could test this out on? I use a projector outside and was curious if something like this could power me through a couple movies??? Oh and is it capable of being charged via solar panel?
It looks like it has a 100-watt input through the USB C Port. If you had some kind of charge controller that could deliver up to 100 watts of electricity from your solar panels you should be able to charge it, but I don't think ego has put out anything themselves for anything but the Nexus power station
@@LrgPicture My original slow ego charger is 210 W I think and he said in one of his videos that the newer slow charger is 280 W just to give you an idea of the fact it's going to be kind of a slow charge. A 7.5 amp hour battery takes over an hour but I've never really figured out the exact time it takes to charge. I imagine it at a 100 W a 10 AM hour battery would take Multiple hours to charge so it might not really be worth the discussion without figuring out a way to rig up a standard charger To the solar array. Just food for thought (I was Curious about the same thing and also about charging with something like a cigarette lighter 12v outlet while driving is why I put all this info together 😉)
I have 400 W of solar panels attached to a solar controller. How would I go about charging my ego 400 W inverter to take advantage of pass-through, charging while running other equipment on the inverter
You can’t utilize your equipment unless you have a smaller solar panel, this isn’t made for high input wattage. USB c supports 100w, this is a quick test we did th-cam.com/video/_v6pNB4KZTg/w-d-xo.html
With all due respect, a 12.0 Ah battery will absolutely provide more power than a 2.5 Ah battery. The voltages may be the same but the Amps are not. The 12.0 battery will experience less voltage drop while used by a power hungry device. Just put each into a blower and see the difference
The larger battery is absolutely capable of providing more power, so yes, if you plug the batteries directly into a power hungry device, like a blower, you will see a difference. But in this application it is limited by the power station. So no, in this power station, you cannot draw more power.
@@notahotshot At 2:15 he says the 12.0 can't provide more power'. I was just clarifying that it can. The power station will just be a product of run time as you say.
HELLO and get me an answer please on this. I bought this product and plugged in an Alexa smart speaker with its AC Adapter only drawing a few watt. This inverter turning itself off after a few hours (about two hours) It piss me off cause my speaker has to reconnect to Wi-Fi again and again! Yes the battery is fully charged (4 Amp) also tried with 5 Amps should run for days. I'm thinking the inverter goes into sleep? How dare they if that is the issue? Or the power draw is so slow that it doesn't detect it? Well that doesn't make sense either . So while I run the speaker in my backyard I said ok I turn on the LED lights built in for more power draw. Same thing the inverter turn itself off. Than I tried only its led light running nothing else plugged in. It still turn itself off after a few hours (again about two hours or less) Either test or wasn't even a test just normal want to be use the ego battery never was lower than 75% or full. ONE more thing! The USB A 18Watt charger port on the inverter it sucks! I tried to charge an iPad mini on it and it would take hours so I don't believe it puts out 18Watt as it's marked on the inverter so had to take the Pad mini back in the house to charge it in no time with an other wall charger. I have not tried the USB C also claim to be 18Watt charger port on it. I'm force to return it to Amazon before the 30 days expires...Please TEST this and comment on it or both!
You have to draw more than 10w on AC or 100mah on usb... otherwise it will shutdown by itself after 2 hours. That's something described in the user guide.
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Finally! Ego did pass through charging. I wish the big ego nexus power station had that feature
I hope there is newer version soon. But for now. I will buy 2 of this!
@@ometofu I already have the big ego power station and 3 ecoflow power stations, a grecell power station and a golabs power station with a 900 watt solar array. I think this new ego 400 watt unit is an awesome little unit
A lot of good it will do you when it only charges at 57 watts!
@@Texasprepper it has a 100 watt pd port. It should charge at 100 watts
I heard the newer ones do have that feature.
Just ordered one, it will be handy in an emergency. One less cord to have while it is powering up a computer or maybe a small chest freezer for me. This is a real good reentry for EGO, to have a serious product in the portable battery power supply arena. Thanks for the videos.
Glad it helped thank you 👍🏼
I am buying one sole based on your video.
Hey, big manufacturers.... Sponsor this guy and send him free stuff to test out. Great video. Keep up the good work!
Thank you so much you know at the end of the day we are in ego fan but we enjoy this we enjoy what we do and thank you for your kind words
Great video, thank you very much
Since I have one Ego 765 Leaf Blower with a 5.0 Ah Battery, I don't use the battery for anything else
Buying this converter would allow me to have local power for a while when I need it when working on my car, and I don't have an outlet nearby. I normally take out my Honda Generator to fill that need, but now I could get this Ego PAD5000 for those momentary usage which I think is great. This put this nice large battery to use for other things besides leaf blowing as at the moment I don't own any other Ego tools.
I agree and thank you
I think it’s important to clarify that bigger batteries CAN absolutely provide more power. However, many other things also need to be considered such as the power draw, and voltage configuration of the batteries.
The power inverter had a maximum power level that is far lower than the limit of both batteries. Therefore, the larger battery will only give you a runtime advantage.
Yes, the video author clearly has not used the 2.5 ah batteries with an Ego snowblower before... can it power it? Yes. Is it as powerful as a 7.5 ah battery? Absolutely not. Runtime is not the only difference... The bigger 3000W Nexus inverter will even show you the wattage difference of what you can power when you install a single 2.5 ah battery vs a 5 ah or 7.5 ah battery.
@@TCPUDPATM yes that would be the entire point...
My only comment, or question, would be, If you have it plugged into your home outlet, everything would work as well. Can it charge a rapid charger for continuous power when the power is completely out? For continuous battery swapping?
Thank you for doing these tests! I’ll be buying it when it makes its way to Canada 👍
Really good reporting on products. You voice is so calm and professional.
Thank you very much I hope you subscribe and join the family
Thks for the videos and all the the tests you made on the nexus
You have helped in making up my mind on the 400 inverter will be buying one soon.
Especially since I already have 4 barrettes laying around which I could be putting to use to charge up other stuff
Espically when I am in the backyard and the fact that I can run my fridge of freezer when the power is out this is truly priceless
Thanks again😊😊😊😊😊
Thanks Edy yeah the 400w is super convenient
Thanks for testing the Nexus Inverter. Was there any testing done under different loads to measure how long 2.5, 7.5 & 12 etc ah batteries would last in hours/minutes?
Hi thanks , no haven’t done those tests
To get full 100 watts charging you need a usb-c cable rated for 5 amps. The standard usb-c cable only allows 3 amps or 60 watts.
Yup. Just found that out.
I'll have to add that inverter to my list of Ego items to get. There are some solar panels that will output to USB-C. I wonder if that would work on that unit.
Interesting that the 400w Nexus can do something that the massive 2000w Nexus Power Station can't -- technically that means one could theoretically connect it to a solar panel and provide live power while keeping the battery topped up.
Somewhat.. it can still pull out charge much faster than it can charge
Rancias por tus explicaciones, tuve la oportunidad de decidirme a comprarlo, en mi zona tiende a irse la luz seguido y esto me va a ayudar con el refrigerador y varias cosas mas
HELLO! Have you done a test for the EGO PAD5000 100W in? In other words, have you investigated if the EGO battery on the PAD5000 can be charged with a 100W solar panel? That would be a super helpful video for campers all depending on the time it take because, if possible, you could have endless electricity. Thank you for your consideration!
Something to consider, did you see our 400w ego inverter solar test
5min SOLAR TEST EGO 400w Nexus Escape Inverter EGO PAD5000
th-cam.com/video/_v6pNB4KZTg/w-d-xo.html
Just got first unit. Love the lantern! Lol. Didn’t know there is this bright lights at the bottom! Going to test out my garage fridge with 10A to see if it lasts overnight…
Great video. Just bought the EGO 400 and am trying it out.
It's definitely nice to have especially if you have batteries thank you for your comment
@tech made easy.....when I charged mine from a power station with 100 watt power delivery.....it will only take 57 watts. Please test yours.
I wonder if the inverter could power corded electrical tools? If so it might be a money saver for sure
Wattage and surge will be import. Especially the surge.
In addition to watts, could you also display the amps this uses?
Thank you… Great test! I love your channel. I’m considering this device.
Question: Could someone use a 100w solar panel to charge a battery on this device? That would be ideal in a power out situation. At 100W maybe 5 or 6 hours to charge a 10Ah battery?
It should be possible but it’s something I haven’t tested. You might wanna contact EGO and just make sure to be on the safe side.
Think I can run my old Milwaukee 12amp corded sawzall plugged into this thing?
I don’t think so. I think the surge is actually going to be the challenge. I don’t think it’ll be the wattage.
I noticed at the start they battery had 5 bars and very quickly went down to 2. That was awful quick....... Thoughts?
I wish I could tell you why, 1st time I’ve experienced that
Great testing. I have varied sizes of portable pure sine inverters: a 300w and a 1500w and a 3000w. This one would be a definite buy if it were more centered between my existing 300w and 1500w (if it were 600w to 800w, ideally). Still, it seems so convenient! (And much more useful than the older 150w model.)
Nice upgrade
Para dos ventiladores cuánto tiempo crees que alcanze a funcionar la batería 5 amp con el pad5000
What's the wattage of each fan
Very nice review. From all the different portable power solutions, I like this one the best. As the inverter and battery are separate. You don’t have to throw the entire thing away when the battery ultimately goes bad.
Thank you
Total harmonic distortion on most pure sine wave inverters is actually lower than what your electric service provides. Meaning it’s actually ‘cleaner’ than the grid.
Good to know
To be honest, I was torn between this of the power generator, and this seems to be a much better set up just due to the pastor if they would have brought the pass through to the generator, then we can talk
Check out the features on this one it's on sale and to me it's a really good buy from a reputable brand amzn.to/3IhA4LH
Alway enjoy your videos! One thi g to note, when tesfing tbe passthrough charging it would been begter to only have a power drain of less than 100 watts to confirm that tbe battery actually was increasing in the charge feagure. Meaning that it would take alot !onger but a trickle charge is actually happening. Just my 2 cents. Otherwise your reviews are done extremly well and always appreciated. Thx
Thanks Jim
For all us Nexus Power Station + Nexus Escape owners, l'd love to extend the life of these units with a LiFePO4 battery, ideally a 5KWhr 48v Server Rack.
If you take your 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 LiFePO4 battery.
This would be a great option for us in the EGO ecosystem.
Thanks much.
Can this be used as a 12 volt power source?
For the pass though charging what is the minimum amount of watts for it to charge
Not aware of a minimum but max is 100w
8:30 - the the sinus wave should be checked under the load not on idle ....
Does this inverter shut off if it detects the battery has dropped below a certain voltage?
I believe it does if there is no wattage being pulled.
Still nothing to plug a 220 in to? Are there any power source that will allow going off the grid? As always I appreciate your videos!
Thanks Donald
220w panel ?
@@TechMadeEzy Will anything allow going off grid?
@@donaldlee6699 not sure what you mean Donald
@@TechMadeEzy And I'm learning from you! On the power source itself is there a plug for 220 Volts? Thanks!
No 220v
Wow , great information and review , I definitely have to add this one to my ego products , i have the first gen , not overly impressed with it , but this one looks nice , I wonder if they will be doing some sort of update to the bigger nexus to be able to do the same passive charging while in use
Do you have a link to purchase that load tester you have?
Here you go
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I want to use my Nexus 400 Inverter to run a 110 volt 300 watt 60 Hz Heated camping pad. I have the Nexus 400 inverter and I have a Ego 5.0Ah batter. Any idea how long I can run my sleeping pad on this set up? Any calculator I can use? Thanks
Not long about 30 Mins assuming you don't have any surge on that, best bet is to get a larger battery
@@TechMadeEzy now im confused I watched you run a house fridge on your for a long while. Thanks for any help
Hey buddy I hear you. My house fridge doesn't pull 300w consistently, it might surge for a moment around 250w but mostly uses 60w.
A lot of people get confused by the size of an appliance and think a smaller Appliance uses less wattage but as you can see from my statement above it's not the case
@@TechMadeEzy ahh I see...I will try to find a heating pad that runs under 75 watts then. Thanks for helping me understand
@ernie5187 I always try my best at the end of the day it's important to understand and I'm glad the information helped you now thanks for being a supporter of our Channel 👍🏻
This is great but someone please help me understand, how is pass through charging useful if we’re not using a solar panel. Why would you not just plug the device into the outlet you’re charging the battery with?
In the case of solar charging out and about I love that I can charge my phone while I'm charging the battery using solar. Other than that, I don't see any other use cases with this device
@@TechMadeEzy Thanks. Have you seen any lower priced solutions to make that happen? Any recommendations?
@jabe6935 if you have EGO batteries I dint think there is a cheaper solution.
@@TechMadeEzy Thank you. I appreciate your videos and replies
Thanks for the great test video!!! It was very helpful!
Thank you
I bought the inverter and I have a four amp battery. My question is when i put the battery in the inverter and turn it on, one light blinks like I’ve already depleted 20% and I just took the battery off the charger. And after five minutes the battery and inverter is warm as if I have a load on it is this normal.
With no load that doesn't sound normal I would probably tell you to call ego support
I did. She told me to take it back to the store and exchange it.
@MUDDREED definitely
Can we solar charge it?
I would think through the usb type c but check with ego 1st to be safe.
You stated pure sine wave but some amazon reviewer stating it's not pure. So who's right?
Didn’t state is was, actually tested it, guess you didn’t watch the video
The bigger batteries DO supply more power. The 2.5ah batteries ate not powerful enough for my blower or mower.
I love them on my hedge trimmer though! ❤
So this should work like a UPS?
No
@@TechMadeEzy thanks!
Hey Al, Great info - thanks for the video. My PAD5000 is actually arriving today - very excited!
Have you ever tested the EGO Nexus Power Station for the same pure sine wave energy?
Should be a quick, simple test - I'd be curious if the results are the same as their new inverter.
Thanks!
Very nice yes it’s pure sine wave
❤Love your video demonstrations! More Brooklyn content please!
Thank you Jimi
The real test would be to test the sine wave under load actually.
Awesome testing…. You know I was wondering if you had a projector you could test this out on? I use a projector outside and was curious if something like this could power me through a couple movies??? Oh and is it capable of being charged via solar panel?
It looks like it has a 100-watt input through the USB C Port. If you had some kind of charge controller that could deliver up to 100 watts of electricity from your solar panels you should be able to charge it, but I don't think ego has put out anything themselves for anything but the Nexus power station
@@NoZenith ok thank you
@@LrgPicture My original slow ego charger is 210 W I think and he said in one of his videos that the newer slow charger is 280 W just to give you an idea of the fact it's going to be kind of a slow charge. A 7.5 amp hour battery takes over an hour but I've never really figured out the exact time it takes to charge. I imagine it at a 100 W a 10 AM hour battery would take Multiple hours to charge so it might not really be worth the discussion without figuring out a way to rig up a standard charger To the solar array. Just food for thought (I was Curious about the same thing and also about charging with something like a cigarette lighter 12v outlet while driving is why I put all this info together 😉)
I have 400 W of solar panels attached to a solar controller. How would I go about charging my ego 400 W inverter to take advantage of pass-through, charging while running other equipment on the inverter
It won't be able to handle it. Have to stay in spec
@@TechMadeEzy what would I have to do? Thanks for getting back to me so quick
You can’t utilize your equipment unless you have a smaller solar panel, this isn’t made for high input wattage. USB c supports 100w, this is a quick test we did
th-cam.com/video/_v6pNB4KZTg/w-d-xo.html
How long.. seams to go from 5 rings to 2 rings in a few minutes
Bars aren’t always accurate at times until you start using the battery
Very Helpful. Thank you
Thanks for the amazing video..👌
Thank you
Very helpful, Thank you!
Thanks glad it helped
I have to buy another unit and build an endless solar fridge. Lol
I need one!
You didn't answer the most important question. How long . how many receivers are less important.
Thanks!
Thanks for your support 👍🏼🔥
Very cool
Another video! Yea!
You do some amazing tests!
I try my best and I wanted to make them short and sweet so instead of putting it all in one video
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won't run all fridges.
Agreed
With all due respect, a 12.0 Ah battery will absolutely provide more power than a 2.5 Ah battery. The voltages may be the same but the Amps are not. The 12.0 battery will experience less voltage drop while used by a power hungry device. Just put each into a blower and see the difference
True but I think either battery is more than capable of 400 watts. It will just be more stress on smaller battery
The larger battery is absolutely capable of providing more power, so yes, if you plug the batteries directly into a power hungry device, like a blower, you will see a difference. But in this application it is limited by the power station. So no, in this power station, you cannot draw more power.
@@notahotshot At 2:15 he says the 12.0 can't provide more power'. I was just clarifying that it can. The power station will just be a product of run time as you say.
You lost me when you plugged into a grounding adapter. Why?
Lost you? My wall is 2 prong.
Or I have another unit and daisy chain first unit to 2nd unit….
That's a modem not router :)
HELLO and get me an answer please on this. I bought this product and plugged in an Alexa smart speaker with its AC Adapter only drawing a few watt. This inverter turning itself off after a few hours (about two hours) It piss me off cause my speaker has to reconnect to Wi-Fi again and again! Yes the battery is fully charged (4 Amp) also tried with 5 Amps should run for days.
I'm thinking the inverter goes into sleep? How dare they if that is the issue? Or the power draw is so slow that it doesn't detect it?
Well that doesn't make sense either . So while I run the speaker in my backyard I said ok I turn on the LED lights built in for more power draw. Same thing the inverter turn itself off. Than I tried only its led light running nothing else plugged in. It still turn itself off after a few hours (again about two hours or less) Either test or wasn't even a test just normal want to be use the ego battery never was lower than 75% or full. ONE more thing! The USB A 18Watt charger port on the inverter it sucks! I tried to charge an iPad mini
on it and it would take hours so I don't believe it puts out 18Watt as it's marked on the inverter so had to take the Pad mini back in the house to charge it in no time with an other wall charger. I have not tried the USB C also claim to be 18Watt charger port on it.
I'm force to return it to Amazon before the 30 days expires...Please TEST this and comment on it or both!
Best bet is to call EGO
(855) 346-5656
You have to draw more than 10w on AC or 100mah on usb... otherwise it will shutdown by itself after 2 hours. That's something described in the user guide.