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Available:Features (River Pro):
- Three 600W Outlets and 720Wh Capacity
- Recharge from 0% to 80% in One Hour
- Compatible with 80% of Home Appliances
- Control with Ecoflow App
- About this deal:
- Our research indicates that the EcoFlow River Pro Portable Power Station is $119.01 lower (21% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting from $549.
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- Rating of 4.7 from over 50 Costco customer reviews.
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The Delta Mini has a 882 Wh NMC battery, where as the Cyberpower has a 216 Wh SLA battery. So the Delta Mini has 4x the battery capacity.
The Delta Mini has a transfer time of 30 ms, which is not good enough to act as a UPS for computer equipment. The Cyberpower has a transfer time of 4 ms.
The Delta Mini can charge from 0% to 80% in less than an hour, or 96 minutes to 100%. The Cyberpower takes 8 hours to fully charge.
The Delta Mini has a MPPT solar charge controller, so you can connect solar panels to it to charge it. The Cybrpower cannot.
The Delta Mini can be charged from DC sources, such as a 12V car outlet. The Cyberpower cannot.
The Delta Mini has X-Boost, which allows it to run *some* devices up to 1800W by lowering the voltage. This mostly works with devices with resistive heating elements. Without X-Boost, it's officially rated for 1400W. I've personally used it to make coffee with my Nespresso, which peaked at 1460W. The Cyberpower has a max output of 1000W. Go over that, it will overload and shut off power.
The Delta Mini has USB-C PD 100W charging port built-in. The Cyberpower does not.
The Delta Mini can be app controlled with many adjustable parameters. The Cyberpower cannot.
I think that would've been the biggest discount vs buying from Amazon as that bundle is $1050 right now whereas the Solar panel bundle is $850 right now with $100 off so buying the River Pro and the solar panels is $730
EF ECOFLOW RIVER Pro Portable Power Station 720Wh with Extra Battery, Double Capacity from 720wh to 1440wh, Solar Generator for Outdoors Camping RV, Home Backup Emergency https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09G2RW...RHM4Z
EF ECOFLOW RIVER Pro Portable Power Station 720Wh with 160W Solar Panel, Power Multiple Devices, Recharge 0-80% Within 1 Hour, for Camping, RV, Outdoors, Off-Grid https://www.amazon.com/dp/B091Y65...NPV1Q
OP should also update the original post with the Solar panel but it has a separate thread created here now so they could get merged: https://slickdeals.net/share/iphone_app/t/15468160
https://www.costco.com/ecoflow-16...16854.html
Good find as previous deal 2 months ago was 94 TU: https://slickdeals.net/share/iphone_app/fp/668200
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What are you all doing with these?
I am wondering if the EcoFlow River Pro Portable would be an option as a sump pump backup battery in the case of a power outage.
My sump pump runs at 725W roughly when in use. Judging by the power station with a peak of 1200W, is it okay to use it?
Thanks in advance.
But if you are looking at the Delta and Solar Panel - HSN has a Great Deal today! https://www.hsn.com/products/ecof...ne/9921438
So is your plan to spend thousands on these units (for any kind of decent run time i am assuming) and stack them then haul them all to an EV charging station to recharge every day? Otherwise, running out multiple times per day to charge a single unit to run your fridge? Oh, and *hoping* that the EV charging station has power too? You're also assuming that access to that kind of power is readily available - I don't personally live "in the boonies" but the nearest EV charging station is 20+ minutes away and there aren't many around. I could do it at home but I'd have to plunk $$ for the charging station too (to get quick recharge times). Meanwhile, there are absolutely oodles of gas stations everywhere and you can store just about as much gas as you want to last you several days with a gas generator (and who knows you might use the gas anyway). [and many gas stations have generators that allow them to pump gas during power outages]
Sorry but these just plain don't make sense as any kind of home power outage mitigation.
I still love them, but that is annoying AF.
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Ugh. You know gas stations have these things called generators that run off of..... gas (or diesel)? What are gas stations sitting on top of thousands of gallons of? gas and diesel. Will every station have a generator? No, but most will. Plus, you can store as much gas as you feel comfortable with - even huge generators will only run through 6-7 gals of gas every 10-12 hours at half load, or let's say 0.5 gals/hr. Want 3 days of backup? get 7, 5 gallon gas cans. What else uses gas? Most cars. Gas keeps very well if you put it in a good container and keep it sealed, worst case you rotate like most people do.
Any battery unit you can cough up simply doesn't have enough local capacity to be a serious backup for a home, not even a powerwall, ESPECIALLY when you consider the cost.
So is your plan to spend thousands on these units (for any kind of decent run time i am assuming) and stack them then haul them all to an EV charging station to recharge every day? Otherwise, running out multiple times per day to charge a single unit to run your fridge? Oh, and *hoping* that the EV charging station has power too? You're also assuming that access to that kind of power is readily available - I don't personally live "in the boonies" but the nearest EV charging station is 20+ minutes away and there aren't many around. I could do it at home but I'd have to plunk $$ for the charging station too (to get quick recharge times). Meanwhile, there are absolutely oodles of gas stations everywhere and you can store just about as much gas as you want to last you several days with a gas generator (and who knows you might use the gas anyway). [and many gas stations have generators that allow them to pump gas during power outages]
Sorry but these just plain don't make sense as any kind of home power outage mitigation.
Whatever, don't buy it then. I'll have my convenient power station when I lose power for a few hours, which happened 7 different times this summer. But the power never went out for longer than 6 hours or so, luckily.
Edit: I'll add that the power outages always happened during one of the crazy thunderstorms that we had here in New Jersey seemingly once or twice a week during the summer. Running a gas generator outside during said storm is not very feasible.
Also, if you live in an apartment, and not your own separated home, a battery power station makes a lot more sense than a gas generator.
Your statement of "this doesn't make sense at all for power outage mitigation" is dismissive and not thought out.
I don't have enough knowledge to justify his claim...
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PFC Sinewave UPS Senes
CP1500PFCLCD
https://www.amazon.com/CyberPower...r=
If handy enough, you can replace internal battery with big external one to let run longer. Some more expensive UPS has terminal/socket to let you attach compatible external battery
UPS sizing is not straightforward, they should just list the Wh of the batteries rather than stupid VA. Ultimately that unit seems to have (2) 12V, 9Ah batteries, or say about 200Wh (the power conversion won't be efficient).
It's basically the difference between a swimming pool's size in gallons (Wh) and how much the pump can move (gallons per minute) (W)
A cpap pulls like 40W (googling) and ~ 200W when the motor kicks on. 200 and 40W << 1000 W so the UPS is fine there. To get an idea of runtime, we divide the Wh of the unit by the running watts of the cpap ~ 5 hrs or so. That's a rough estimate, but being such a low watt draw should be more accurate than some high consumption device.
Plus, on the inside is just a regular sealed lead acid battery with +/- terminals. Theoretically you could swap batteries or use some larger other battery and some wiring. Or you could just get a REAL battery, a tender/charger of sorts and inverter or DC cord (better) and probably run for a very long time for the same amount of money, just in a less portable package.
So is your plan to spend thousands on these units (for any kind of decent run time i am assuming) and stack them then haul them all to an EV charging station to recharge every day? Otherwise, running out multiple times per day to charge a single unit to run your fridge? Oh, and *hoping* that the EV charging station has power too? You're also assuming that access to that kind of power is readily available - I don't personally live "in the boonies" but the nearest EV charging station is 20+ minutes away and there aren't many around. I could do it at home but I'd have to plunk $$ for the charging station too (to get quick recharge times). Meanwhile, there are absolutely oodles of gas stations everywhere and you can store just about as much gas as you want to last you several days with a gas generator (and who knows you might use the gas anyway). [and many gas stations have generators that allow them to pump gas during power outages]
Sorry but these just plain don't make sense as any kind of home power outage mitigation.
If your phone or laptop is lowbat and you just want to charge, would you really want to fireup your 5kw noisy generator in the middle of the night just for this little need of electricity?
Conventional Generators are good but they also have to stop at some point. You do need to fuel them up isn't it? However the they are perfect tool to charge power stations. These power stations can be fully charged by a 2 kw generator as quick as 2 hrs and you can use them for hours while your generator rest and your ears rest.
Again, you have to have both. They are not competing products.
If your phone or laptop is lowbat and you just want to charge, would you really want to fireup your 5kw noisy generator in the middle of the night just for this little need of electricity?
Conventional Generators are good but they also have to stop at some point. You do need to fuel them up isn't it? However the they are perfect tool to charge power stations. These power stations can be fully charged by a 2 kw generator as quick as 2 hrs and you can use them for hours while your generator rest and your ears rest.
Again, you have to have both. They are not competing products.
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