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800W EcoFlow Alternator Charger
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EcoFlow has 800W EcoFlow Alternator Charger on sale for $199. Shipping is free.
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Thanks to Community Member Esente for sharing this deal.
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
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- Details of EcoFlow's return policy (here).
- Additional Information:
- This offer matches the recent FP deal.
- Please see the original post for additional details and/or view the Wiki and forum comments for further helpful discussion if available.
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EcoFlow has 800W EcoFlow Alternator Charger on sale for $199. Shipping is free.
Thanks to Community Member Esente for sharing this deal.
About this product:
Thanks to Community Member Esente for sharing this deal.
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
Editor's Notes
Written by SubZero5 | Staff- About this store:
- Details of EcoFlow's return policy (here).
- Additional Information:
- This offer matches the recent FP deal.
- Please see the original post for additional details and/or view the Wiki and forum comments for further helpful discussion if available.
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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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As long as you have a ~20A or greater source available (e.g. 7-way trailer plug, or dedicated 10AWG cable/ 20A fuse direct to battery) you can make up a lead with a XT60i plug on the end which will enable 'solar' mode on your River Pro. This will allow it to charge at ~15A, halving the time to charge the unit. This is what I plan to do for mine.
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It is as you say, a smart charger. It has some smarts to not charge when the engine isnt on/isnt driving. It is also adjustable in how many watts to charge it at. Mind you most vehicle alternators are 100A or higher nowadays, thus 100A= 1200 watts, more or less.
Could you recharge from your 12V outlet? Yes. Its capped somewhere around 8A at 12V, so less than 100w.
Keep in mind this unit is only compatible with the ones with the ecoflow xt150 connector. Anything else is not compatible. However this keeps your solar/dc xt150 ports free.
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Based on all the DC-DC alternator based charger, this has no peers.
There are a few like the new Pecron 500 watt and various Victron. They all need to connect via XT60 which is 400-500 watts maximum. Then you have to have the right gauge cables to cover the length. I have a Victron and cabling runs "hot" that concerns me.
Now, all of them have a minimum cut-off. Victron doesn't. But Pecron , Bouge, and Ecowortht does. Where you can set a specific volt. If your main battery dips under 12.8 volts, they stop pulling power. Same with this 800wa, YOu can dial it in where it starts charging at a certain volt. The Victron, you need some trigger.
My AGM battery rests at 12.8-13 volts. When I crank it, it is 10.8 volts to start and the alternator starts charging running at 14.4 volts to charge a battery. If you rev it up to 2000 rpms, it maintains that 14.4 volts. I tested this with a Bluetooth battery meter because I was having problems with one of my cars. Most new cars work like this.
So, my assumption, is once it the alternator goes above a specific volt (you define in the app), it starts to draw power. And when it starts drawing power, the alternator needs to keep up with it to maintain that 14.4 volts to charge the starter battery, the running equipment (air con, stereo, lights), and whatever is left over goes to the leisure battery (in this case, the Deltas power station ). Now there are some "smart alternators" that don't run at 14.8 but will go down to 13.8 when there is a low load while driving. So they don't overcharge the starter battery.
So the concern will be how much load does it affect the alternator; always running at 14.++ volts.
The advantage of the ecoflow is it goes pass the xt60/xt61 limitation with those thicker gauge cables that can run 15 feet and supply up to 800 watts. And it has bidirectional charging. An ecoflow powerstation can top off your starter battery.
Correct me if I am wrong.
If you need to mount the whole setup inside a car or camper van, then it depends on where the starter battery is. Many are already inside the car so no need to go through firewall. Install process is not much different from people who DIY their backup camera, dash cams, stereo amps, subs...etc. Some people can DIY, others won't.
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Based on all the DC-DC alternator based charger, this has no peers.
There are a few like the new Pecron 500 watt and various Victron. They all need to connect via XT60 which is 400-500 watts maximum. Then you have to have the right gauge cables to cover the length. I have a Victron and cabling runs "hot" that concerns me.
Now, all of them have a minimum cut-off. Victron doesn't. But Pecron , Bouge, and Ecowortht does. Where you can set a specific volt. If your main battery dips under 12.8 volts, they stop pulling power. Same with this 800wa, YOu can dial it in where it starts charging at a certain volt. The Victron, you need some trigger.
My AGM battery rests at 12.8-13 volts. When I crank it, it is 10.8 volts to start and the alternator starts charging running at 14.4 volts to charge a battery. If you rev it up to 2000 rpms, it maintains that 14.4 volts. I tested this with a Bluetooth battery meter because I was having problems with one of my cars. Most new cars work like this.
So, my assumption, is once it the alternator goes above a specific volt (you define in the app), it starts to draw power. And when it starts drawing power, the alternator needs to keep up with it to maintain that 14.4 volts to charge the starter battery, the running equipment (air con, stereo, lights), and whatever is left over goes to the leisure battery (in this case, the Deltas power station ). Now there are some "smart alternators" that don't run at 14.8 but will go down to 13.8 when there is a low load while driving. So they don't overcharge the starter battery.
So the concern will be how much load does it affect the alternator; always running at 14.++ volts.
The advantage of the ecoflow is it goes pass the xt60/xt61 limitation with those thicker gauge cables that can run 15 feet and supply up to 800 watts. And it has bidirectional charging. An ecoflow powerstation can top off your starter battery.
Correct me if I am wrong.
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