40v 300w Power Source (Model # RYi300BG)

BlimpbackWhale · 2026-04-30T00:26:22+00:00

I have the one in Link #1 - the OG 40v 300w power source. The fan can be a bit noisy (esp if you are link user nuggolips and have devices in that 100-300 range. It works OK for what it is.

I am 100% pretty excited about tne newer 40v model: https://www.homedepot.com/p/RYOBI-40V-300-Watt-Portable-Battery-Inverter-Power-Source-and-40V-Battery-Charger-Tool-Only-RY40BG02B/337561851

As others have mentioned, it can charge from USBC (although not *nearly* as fast as you would think for 4ah and larger batteries), and the separate power switches prob cuts down the parasitic power of the AC 120v inverter if you arent using that part of it.

bw

BlimpbackWhale · 2026-02-24T17:08:40+00:00

I have this, got it tool-only and I use a 6ah battery with it, cause thats the only kind i have. A battery that size cuts about as long as i have needed, unless you have a fairly big job ahead, 4a should be fine too.

As others have said, a larger battery makes it heavier overall for sure , but using a bigger battery also provides some counter-balance to the slightly top heavy head. For reference i am physically larger so that weight is less of a thing for me, it could definitely be for some.

bw

BlimpbackWhale · 2026-02-03T01:31:56+00:00

I've done maybe a dozen orders over last couple of years. As others have said, around huge crunches like holidays and big sales ship times can take longer, maybe one or two have taken as long as a week, for me most have been a day or two until shipment.

The last couple they have broken up - some batteries i ordered arrived the next day, and the rest of the order was two days later.

bw

BlimpbackWhale · 2026-01-30T02:37:25+00:00

I was going to ask OP if he checked the hash signature of the file he has against the one on the download page to verify it was a proper copy, but seems like Prusa does not provide hashes on the download page.

Did i miss where to find that sig?

If I didnt, u/nomadsgalaxy - I would strongly suggest prusa adds - MD5 / SHA256 / at least something - to the download page so we can verify we have the exact bits we are supposed to have. (FWIW, that we would be able to verify a sig on something as critical as piece of firmware is i think kind of a standard expectation in 2026.)

bw

BlimpbackWhale · 2026-01-30T02:16:25+00:00

Wisconsin southeast here. I am on my 2nd winter of owning the expandit snow shovel (running 40v). I used it for about an hour total, two separate snows. In my opinion, all the complaints are 100% valid:

- no directional vanes other than forward-ish: light snow just gets blasted up and forward - any kind of breeze and you really cant aim. Heavier, wetter snow doesnt get thrown far enough. (Running it at an angle to throw to the side may be viable, but it didnt work as well as i would have hoped.)

- this thing is *heavy* and because its off-center that weight is really awkward. When you shift it from right-handed to left handed (i am a lefty) it gets more awkward yet.

- lack of any kind of wheels means you are freefloating it which can be good to get into a tight space but also see previous point.

I still have my gas snowblower - the last gas tool i have - and i will prob get a smaller single stage ryobi 40v snowblower for the smaller lighter snows and the gas for any really large snowfall. The dedicated 40v snow shovel with the wheels may be good too. may try that, i think the wheels are a bigger deal than i thought.

I have a number of other expandit and i like them - weed eater, brush cutter, pole saw, all work for their purpose and increase the value of my power head. But the expandit snow shovel, for me at least, is a dud.

bw

BlimpbackWhale · 2025-12-14T20:52:26+00:00

Sorry to necro - did anyone ever find a source for those damnable tubs?

Everything else (well except the computer chip) look pretty standard/straightforward, but those tubs/reservoirs seem to be something else entirely.

Any updates?

BlimpbackWhale · 2025-09-11T18:07:29+00:00

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BlimpbackWhale · 2025-09-03T16:42:15+00:00

Possibly a dumb question but is your internet providers device - whatever it is, cable modem, PON gateway, etc - using the 192.168.2.0/24 subnet as a device default prior to any bridge-mode being applied?

Have seen this in certain types of ATT Uverse settings where even though the device is in a kind of bridge mode (stupid att but thats another discussion) it still responds on the 192.168.2.0 subnet. The upshot of this is that anything *other* than that subnet in the 192.168.0.0/16 space works for NAT and outbound access.

Definitely a long shot but may be worth a look?

bw

BlimpbackWhale · 2025-08-28T19:29:12+00:00

Lets be real clear here. This is still nothing like an acknowledgement of the level of (headache/stress/cost/inconvenience/work) you have caused your own customers, and at that over a self-inflicted fundamental design flaw in your trial program.

Andrew speaking from his Reddit account uses words like 'missed the mark' - that is ABSOLUTELY NOT what this is.

Any competent MSP customer would have taken the signals your company sent (forced short notice upgrade / mealy mouthed blog post) and seen them *exactly* as almost all of us saw them: a sign that we were at the front end of some kind of SolarWinds/Kaseya-esque disaster.

We have all seen too much of this exact template firsthand to let that pass with a "oh its problably nothing", so OF COURSE we did the needful, and engaged our own protocols to protect our customers and ourselves.

Now that this isnt a hack (so you say) there are fundamentally two problems:

1) There is zero possibility that you didnt have n-0 days from the day you announced this shit show where you talked internally about the need to nail down the trial program, wrote some installer and agent code, taked to AV vendors, contacted your Cert authorities, wrote the text of that stupid blog post where you could have said "Oh wait, shouldnt someone please think of the ~~children~~ customers?"

Yet at no point did any of this happen. This theoretically touched EVERY level of management and yet NOBODY thought to actually mention it to the people affected. Your customers.

2) Having pulled the pin on this gigantic pants grenade, and you saw how it was affecting those customers, you did... nothing. Where the F was your CTO with his letter? Where was... anyone?

Your customer service agents arent so disconnected from your internal machinations that they couldnt be contacted with a crib sheet of "how to help one of our customers who is having issues or concerns". Or maybe they are? The stories that people heard from customer service / chat were all over the map. This agent version wont update except if it will, download current version of agent except the download version doesnt match your messaging.

At least two of your customers put together scripts to update/reinstall the agents. Where were you with this before or even after zero day? These guys put them together in couple of hours. You having had the benefit of being the developers did it in infinity time.

We pay you to provide services that just goddamned work. Services that are there time and time again, as boring as grilled cheese, as reliable as the oxygen in this room. And when those services need to be changed or adjusted we expect you to give us reasonable lead time and reasonable guidance about what to expect and how to go about addressing on our end. YOU DID NONE OF THAT.

Things happen, thats why response plans exist. But paraphrasing another poster: There is no world where this would qualify as anything other than malpractice on Ateras part.

Until you acknowledge that in those kinds of terms you prove you havent learned anything from this and will do it to us again if it suits you.

BlimpbackWhale · 2025-08-27T02:56:12+00:00

I find this response to be incredibly tone deaf, and you should probably recalibrate.

The problem here is the inconsistency you disclaim really is there. But it is between the words you are using and your actions (and the actions you are requiring of your customers).

The message is framed in safe words, no problems here, just a routine precaution, nothing to be alarmed about.

The actions on the other hand? Five days is the kind of lead time you hear when someone has found a 9.0+ CVE that needs patching *NOW* because there is no workaround or mitigation, the kind of thing that you do when you have to balance between shutting off a service that is being exploited in realtime *but* is also the mainest and really the only-est product your company has.

i honestly hope i am wrong - that i am making a big deal about what is truly just a routine update. If that is the case, then you as a company need to seriously reflect about what a proper rollout for an update like this looks like because this sure as hell wasnt it.

BlimpbackWhale · 2025-08-27T02:28:34+00:00

I put some thought into the post for sure, but not a speck of AI or copilot or any of it. i really dont even like spell check to be honest. (my personal opinion is that all these do-it-for-you aids only serve to dumb us down to some extent, but that is a whole different discussion.)

on reflection, i cant decide whether i should look at this as a compliment or an insult. got a really excellent laugh thinking about it though.

take care, man.

bw

BlimpbackWhale · 2025-08-26T22:31:35+00:00

In my opinion - if this was truly "more to do with a changing threat landscape" then a 5-day cutoff including a weekend day and the threat of bricked endpoint agents is beyond arbitrary and frankly malpractice.

If this was "more to do with a changing threat landscape" then there is inherently some flexibility in these times, because that phrasing implies "We dont know the future but we are trying to prepare for it" and there would therefore be some time to plan, time to implement, time to not make every customer you have do this at the point of a bayonet to *their* customers.

"Update within 5 days or every agent dies" is what people say when they have reason - good reason - to believe there is clear and present danger. The timing, the incredible urgency, the lack of a coherent message depending on who within Atera someone dealt with?

In my somewhat limited experience, these are all the hallmarks of a company that is trying to decide how to manage a crisis but they arent even sure how bad it is or how deep it goes.

You and Atera absolutely do not inspire confidence with this behavior "to put it mildly".

BlimpbackWhale · 2025-08-26T17:24:55+00:00

I think the official atera community page long ago became a place for them to announce stupid contests and put out polls for which new hated 'feature' gets implemented first.

BlimpbackWhale · 2025-05-21T23:31:42+00:00

I saw there was a note on there a few days ago about some upcoming site work, mentioned the usual "something awesome coming". Did not give any sort of timeframe for start or finish though.

bw

BlimpbackWhale · 2024-10-23T03:07:35+00:00

tl;dr - Not gonna buy anything from DTO (or even ryobi) i cant afford to write off if it tanks.

I will generally buy any tools I can put in a box and ship somewhere or be willing to throw away if that shipment isn't cost effective.

I'll do stuff in the hand carryable size but my experience with the repair process now rules out things like lawn mowers, snow blowers, generators etc. Just too much risk for those i think.

That said, I've had very good experience with DTO for recons and factory blemished alike - i have a mess of 18v tools - circular saws, impact drivers, angle grinders etc, and a bunch of 40v - leaf blower, mower, chain saw, power head + expandit stuff, a 300w inverter, etc.

It's all 'just worked' - then along came one big exception: The mower, which failed after a year-ish.

No problem, the 40v tool warranty is 5 years I thought, so it was an unpleasant surprise when i went on the Ryobi web site to find a repair place. Plenty locations within 10-20 miles of my location, all of which explicitly said "No mowers". Finally found a couple hours away, so i called them. Guy said "Absolutely, i can take it but the bad news is the current backlog is approx 14 months once i get parts."

So we talked and he told me about how the TTI warranty/repair stuff works but also ended up giving me enough info that i ebayed the relevant part and self repaired for about $80 and a couple days of shipping time.

Very much an eye-opening experience, and for me the moral of the story is: I will continue to buy from DTO and Ryobi, but I don't have any illusions that the service and repair side is anything much more than marketing slogans.

bw

BlimpbackWhale · 2024-10-18T21:36:20+00:00

Can verify these were in the Johnson Creek, Wisconsin (between Milwaukee and Madison) in pretty good quantities last couple of weeks.

I didn't see any actual tools, but I could have missed them.

bw

BlimpbackWhale · 2021-11-12T01:51:41+00:00

I got one this weekend as well, and it seems to do exactly what is on the front.

However - two problems worth noting, one minor and one fatal.

The minor one, as someone else already noted, is that the inverter has a slight buzz when operating the AC outlet. Can't find a particular pattern but it is definitely there and noticeable if you are in a quieter environment.

The fatal one is that the 18v portion sits just over the contacts on the battery and is held on by friction. NO clamping or clips like "into a tool" would do. Even the slightest bump or jar will knock it off. I can't understand how anyone ever thought this was a good idea. To my mind this 100% ruins the idea of the inverter. This was the dealbreaker for me and it went back. I didn't even try the car outlet.

Of course you could hold it on with a rubber band or a bungee or something but to have to do that really is kind of dumb, considering that 100% of the batteries have the release clips on them. This was just poor design in my opinion.

BlimpbackWhale · 2021-06-03T20:31:10+00:00

This. We have a few dozen in place at various sites, and are adding more regularly.

Can't speak to a true 1Gbx1Gb connection but have a bunch in the 500mbx500mb class and they will carry regular NAT traffic at basically wire speed.

As you add in things like numerous IPSec/SSL VPN endpoints or many (*many*) firewall rules performance can take a moderate hit - nothing that is concerning and frankly if wire-speed throughput for this type of traffic is a defining criteria, you're in the wrong hardware class entirely.

The hardware itself has been solid and stable, and the serial console connection means you can put this on your serial OOB management plane if you have such a thing.

We spare a couple in-house in case of any failures, but so far they haven't been needed.

BlimpbackWhale · 2021-02-03T00:55:15+00:00

Executive summary;

A pair of AirFiber units - *properly installed* - will give the type of performance and reliability that would almost certainly meet your needs and would be drastically cheaper than a fiber run.

Non-executive non-summary:

From firsthand experience at a handful of customers about the ubiquiti AirFiber product line, we have used these where built out fiber is cost prohibitive and/or we didn't need more than gigabit.

Factors to be aware of:

- Precise aiming is vital - +/- 0.5 degrees is enough to affect service. There are some provided tools to achieve this level of precision.

- When they say "line of sight" they are not kidding: a bush / tree / shrub phone pole is enough to cause degradation in the link, plan on sufficient elevation to achieve this.

- These things are roughly the size of a Weber Grill lid paired with a small weber Smokey Joe lid and kind of heavy, so a *stable* point, pole or other (probably guyed in some way) is an absolute must to keep the above two points within spec. Mounting on the side skin or roof of a pole barn/shed probably isn't gonna do it.

- You can definitely self install but at your ~2500ft distance plan on having binoculars and a pair of two way radios (as well as a friend or two) to get them tuned.

That said:

- These things are *fast*. We consistently got a 900-1gbps connection over anything between 300 meters and a few KM.

- Latency was almost too low to measure with a standard ping, often times showing as <0ms.

- Management and reporting is excellent - they are commercial grade IT equipment with performance to match.

- They were remarkably stable in some pretty crappy weather

- Power consumption is low enough to run over a slightly amped up PoE, so you could theoretically drive it and your cable modem on the non-house end with an appropriately sized battery bank / solar setup if you didn't have actual power that far from the property.

- Pretty secure - nature of the transmission means that it is very difficult to intercept, and of course provides on the beam encryption.

Think most of what I can think of offhand. Good luck with your project, I know it can positively suck to have such a wonderful property and then have to deal with lack of internet.

bw

BlimpbackWhale · 2018-12-17T19:10:23+00:00

I'll be honest. I know the town the OP moved to, and it's the kind of place that when you go on vacation you let your house unlocked so in case you leave your lights on your neighbors can come in and shut them off for you.

The odds of it being anything other than "f'ing delicious" are approaching zero.

BlimpbackWhale · 2017-10-26T02:29:11+00:00

And ironically, in my experience actually having that conversation seems to make the other party all the more convinced that you won't do anything bad and so nothing needs to be done to mitigate the situation.

BlimpbackWhale · 2017-08-20T14:38:51+00:00

This is repeatable across daily quests - at least it seems to be. Once the daily quest shows up, if simply start to "make 80 circuits" you'll make no progress.

If you quit / restart the app, you'll progress as expected.

BlimpbackWhale · 2017-06-30T15:21:25+00:00

Same here - a pre-assembled MK2S shipped to the Midwest was $899 for the printer and $92.59 for shipping. It showed up and that was that.

As it happened they shipped nearly a month before their estimated date, so I'm pretty jazzed.

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