EcoFlow has
800W EcoFlow Alternator Charger on sale for
$199.
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About this product:
- Charge while you drive, and stay powered up on the road
- Charger uses onboard DC-DC converter to restore your EcoFlow power station's energy while you drive
- 800W turbo alternator, 8x faster than traditional in-vehicle auxiliary power outlets
- Top up 1kWh in only 1.3 hours
- A 3-in-1 fast charger, maintainer, and jump starter keeps your battery in mint condition
- Charge: Use your car's alternator to refuel your portable power station
- Reverse Charge: Recharge your vehicle starter battery or RV house battery using your portable power station
- Battery Maintenance: Extends your vehicle starter battery or RV house battery life by using lower electrical current
- Suitable for a variety of vehicles, including SUVs, pickups, and RVs
- Expands existing RV house battery capacity
- 2-year warranty
Top Comments
It is useful to charge power centers like the Ecoflow units faster than the typical 100W or so you'd get from a cigarette lighter plug style adapter you find in most vehicles (or RVs).
Ok. Got it.
>you can use this to quick charge using your vehicle/RV charging system
Wait, you've lost me.
>to charge an Ecoflow battery bank.
I'm sorry, I can charge the thing I am trying to charge by using the thing I am trying to charge to charge itself?
Don't have to connect directly to starter battery. But better be sure wherever you connect this to can handle 800W+. I connected this to the battery service terminal under the hood. Starter battery is under the trunk floor in the back. There's a 175A fuse inline to service terminal so more than enough amperage to handle this. The included 16ft cable is 6AWG with 125A fuse. Ring terminals are M8 size.
Normal starter battery voltage is <13V. Once engine starts, alternator ups that voltage to >13V. Once engine shuts off, voltage drops back to <13V. Default setting on this would prevent drawing any power from your battery while engine is off. Once engine starts, this automatically begins charging your power station. Once engine shuts off, this automatically stops drawing power to keep your battery from getting drained. This start/shutoff voltage setting can be customized in the app but default worked for me out of the box.
In case your starter battery is drained and cannot start the car, this can go in reverse and use your power station to charge your starter battery. This is done with just a simple tap in the app.
On EV or certain hybrids with no alternators, this still works (and better IMO). The car uses DC-DC converter to reduce 400/800V traction battery down to operate 12V devices and to charge the starter battery. This is also a DC-DC converter that increases 12V to 60V to charge your power station. This hardly puts strain on the car's DC-DC converter as long as it can handle additional 800W+ load. You can always lower from 800W draw from this in the app by swiping left or right.
This can work on non-EcoFlow power stations via solar input at 60V/500W max, provided you DIY your own cable (supposedly official EF cable is on the way): https://youtube.com/shorts/uVBrNY...I80vRe-bdV
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Ok. Got it.
>you can use this to quick charge using your vehicle/RV charging system
Wait, you've lost me.
>to charge an Ecoflow battery bank.
I'm sorry, I can charge the thing I am trying to charge by using the thing I am trying to charge to charge itself?
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Ok. Got it.
>you can use this to quick charge using your vehicle/RV charging system
Wait, you've lost me.
>to charge an Ecoflow battery bank.
I'm sorry, I can charge the thing I am trying to charge by using the thing I am trying to charge to charge itself?
You use an EcoFlow battery bank.
You want to charge your EcoFlow Battery bank faster than a 110v hookup.
Think of this as a second alternator making the electricity to power your battery bank but faster than if you were just using 12v->110v inverter.
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Ok. Got it.
>you can use this to quick charge using your vehicle/RV charging system
Wait, you've lost me.
>to charge an Ecoflow battery bank.
I'm sorry, I can charge the thing I am trying to charge by using the thing I am trying to charge to charge itself?
It is useful to charge power centers like the Ecoflow units faster than the typical 100W or so you'd get from a cigarette lighter plug style adapter you find in most vehicles (or RVs).
It is useful to charge power centers like the Ecoflow units faster than the typical 100W or so you'd get from a cigarette lighter plug style adapter you find in most vehicles (or RVs).
I've read elsewhere that this utilizes the "excess energy" from the alternator of a vehicle as if you're somehow scraping energy that's otherwise unused... that doesn't sound right at all but comments like that in various other places and all the hype makes it misleading.
overall I think this is just something that lets you charge your unit much more quickly when out on the road and you don't have access to an AC outlet that can output high enough... it's not something that helps save money, you're not going to be getting "free" energy from "excess energy" from your alternator or anything like that.
And, from what I saw with this, yes - you'll need to wire this up to go through/around a firewall somewhere on your vehicle
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