expired Posted by DesertGardener | Staff • Mar 16, 2023
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expired Posted by DesertGardener | Staff • Mar 16, 2023
Mar 16, 2023 10:02 PM
Ecoflow DELTA 1300 Lithium-ion Power Station + 160W Solar Panel
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For your home?
If you want to power some small things for a few hours on the first night of an outage, yes.
If you're in a multi day outage and want to use things in your home, no.
You can power a normal size fridge for about 7 hours, but if you mix in using a microwave or coffee maker, using lights, having a modem and router running with a pc, you're looking at like 1.5-2 hours, maybe slightly longer if the sun is shining. If you're going to run a typical space heater, MAYBE an hour of juice. The problem is if you are using this during the day, it simply won't recharge fully and when the sun goes down you are not going to make it with lights/basic electronics for more than a little bit.
The efficiency rating of this setup is absolutely horrible, like 55% if I remember right. so for every 1000w you put into the battery, you actually are losing 450W because of the very poor battery bank. Lithium ion batteries are normally in the mid 80% efficiency level, but because of how wasteful the charging unit is on this unit, you're going to lose a bunch of that juice. Most quality pieces are in the 73%-89% range. Look up Solar RTE, or round trip efficiency .
As stated above, if this is used every once in a while as a battery bank that you are charging from the sun, it's not that bad of a deal, but if you think this will get you far during a power outage, especially if you are in a cold climate, you really need to buy something quality.
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Ton of LiFePO4 trollers will come in ....
Ton of LiFePO4 trollers will come in ....
The Delta 2 (~1000 Wh) + 160W panel was available last year for $900 on wellbots. I would avoid buying from Ecoflow on ebay, they have some scummy practices
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and $629.30 for the 1300 standalone (w/o the panel). https://www.wellbots.co
reviews of the 1300.
https://greencitizen.co
https://youtu.be/xjl3s1CdYII
and $629.30 for the 1300 standalone (w/o the panel). https://www.wellbots.co
reviews of the 1300.
https://greencitizen.co
https://youtu.be/xjl3s1CdYII
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i see it's now $899 w/solar and $749 w/o, with your code.
UPDATE: see this thread for an ecoflow store ebay refurb delta 1300 at $425. https://slickdeals.net/f/16528345-ecoflow-delta-portable-power-station-1260wh-certified-refurbished-river-series-1-476?attrsrc=sea
Thank you for this! Much better discount. I just updated OP
For your home?
If you want to power some small things for a few hours on the first night of an outage, yes.
If you're in a multi day outage and want to use things in your home, no.
You can power a normal size fridge for about 7 hours, but if you mix in using a microwave or coffee maker, using lights, having a modem and router running with a pc, you're looking at like 1.5-2 hours, maybe slightly longer if the sun is shining. If you're going to run a typical space heater, MAYBE an hour of juice. The problem is if you are using this during the day, it simply won't recharge fully and when the sun goes down you are not going to make it with lights/basic electronics for more than a little bit.
The efficiency rating of this setup is absolutely horrible, like 55% if I remember right. so for every 1000w you put into the battery, you actually are losing 450W because of the very poor battery bank. Lithium ion batteries are normally in the mid 80% efficiency level, but because of how wasteful the charging unit is on this unit, you're going to lose a bunch of that juice. Most quality pieces are in the 73%-89% range. Look up Solar RTE, or round trip efficiency .
As stated above, if this is used every once in a while as a battery bank that you are charging from the sun, it's not that bad of a deal, but if you think this will get you far during a power outage, especially if you are in a cold climate, you really need to buy something quality.
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As noted above, unless you plan to charge these from solar, think long about it. It's expensive to 'fill' these from a wall outlet. I plugged the goal zero into the AC when I first got it, and got a utility company notice that my bill was going to be much higher due to significant increase in usage.
And you HAVE to charge these every ~3 months or so. They also should be stored at room temp, not out in a garage or outside.
We get 1-12 hour outages here a few times a year. What I have will cycle my refrigerator and my gas furnace, and run the whole house fan overnight. That's all I need.
My next car (2-3 years out) will be electric and have an interconnect with the house to use the cars batteries for storage and to run the house during an outage. The Ford Lightning has this capability now, and I'd expect it to become standard.
That will run a household for a few days with moderate usage. So we can factor in the cost of whole home battery backup towards the purchase of a car, and see what it costs to add solar to that around the same time.
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