[Dewalt power station]

On 6/28/2020 at 8:31 AM, Mdsd77 said:

Your testing bellow would be interesting to see on 4. 15ah flexvolt batteries that just came out 🤔

 

First I will say I am disappointed in myself for not doing the research I should have done, it was all right there in front of me but my hopes got the best of me for sure...

 

My previous post above shows what times I had running a regular light.

 

This time I ran the Dewalt hybrid fan from the power station with a 25 foit 12/3 cord to the fan.

 With (4) 9ah Flexvolt batteries installed.

 

The hybrid fan, which in my opinion is the best tool Dewalt makes, has very good airflow even at low speeds, and pushing great air at high.

 

This test was performed by setting the fan on Medium for all involved...(in 75 to 77 degree Ambient temp controlled environment)

 

- powerstation w/4 9ah Flexvolts installed. = test #1 = 38 hours ---  -test#2 = 36 hours

 

- using the fan on one 9ah battery it ran for 31hours at same medium setting.

 

- the power station stated warning beep at those hours above, all batteries indicated 1 bar, I assume that this is low end the power station starts to want to shut down....

 * I then placed a used 9ah battery from the power station into the fan and it ran another 2 hours no problem.... So add 8 more hours of run Tim to the fan test = potential 46 hours.

 

BUT - if I inserted a  single 9ah battery four times after depletingI would get 124 hours of operation at that medium setting.

 

Big difference in times!

 

I understand it's made to run tools, not refrigerators or other home appliances etc... And it may work well Running tools, and I wouldn't be running a fan constantly like that as well, but the testing shows it is not an alternative to using a single battery and doing a swap out..31hours single battery install vs 38hours power station is not that great of a difference.

 

I was fortunate to find one at goodwill for $100, and I will keep it as a charger, and have the ability if needed to use as a power source.  I intend to build a pure sine wave self contained inverter apparatus for running everything else, using the power caps available on eBay.  I have so many batteries from different platforms, so this may be the way to go for my needs.

 

Now that Big Red has a inverter on the market, I am sure Dewalt will have their own here shortly if there is one thing I have learned, they do not sit around and let anyone pass them up.

And yes it will be $$$$ , But when the need is there, it will be worth it.

 

My next test will be running the Ryobi band saw, and the 7491 Dewalt table saw. And a shop vac (Ridgid)  these are the only corded things I own.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Dewalt power station]

On 1/11/2020 at 10:56 AM, Biggie said:

I grabbed mine for 199 bucks plus tax few years ago looking to grab another one and there now 499 most places bare and 549 in some other places this is nuts almost 350 to 400 dollar price jump its insane for a bare tool should of grabbed 2 of them at the 199 dollar price range when I got the one at my local lowes store wow......

 

What's the deal with pricing on these power stations?  I bought one two years ago now and it was a good deal but it was $199 for the bare tool.  If I remember right they were supposed to be $400 but were pretty easy to find for $300-350 at that time.  The other day one showed up in an ad for acme and it's now $500 for the bare tool.  I know dewalt tools took a small price increase when the tariff stuff happened but to go from $400 to $500 seems like a pretty big jump.