Ecoflow Delta Pro + Extra Battery $3112.78

ZeeOhhSix

Sep 30, 2024 05:01 PM

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According to my power company, I used 48kWh yesterday for my 1600 sq ft house. It was only 76 degrees. The cost was $7 of electricity. So I would need....6-7x the capacity of this combo to have one 'normal' day of power?

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ElatedHealth6110

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According to my power company, I used 48kWh yesterday for my 1600 sq ft house. It was only 76 degrees. The cost was $7 of electricity. So I would need....6-7x the capacity of this combo to have one 'normal' day of power?

That seems like a high amount of energy to use for one day assuming you hadn't used A/C or heat. These devices are good for running critical circuits, e.g. refrigerator, sump pump, freezer. You can't really expect it to run your entire house with no adjustment in usage during a power outage. Just my opinion...

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ZeeOhhSix

Sep 30, 2024 05:18 PM

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Quote from ElatedHealth6110

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That seems like a high amount of energy to use for one day assuming you hadn't used A/C or heat. These devices are good for running critical circuits, e.g. refrigerator, sump pump, freezer. You can't really expect it to run your entire house with no adjustment in usage during a power outage. Just my opinion...

Thanks for the input. I appreciate it.

Is that a lot of power usage? I really don't know. I just looked up the average Georgia household and it claims 1088 kWH per month, which I guess is a bit lower than my house. My lowest over the past month was 33kWh and my highest was 68kWh. We *did* have the AC on, as we always do at 70-71 throughout the day. I am just trying to gauge my needs to see what type of setup would work for us. My computer alone (and monitor) pull about 500watts/hour, and I use it for work 12 hours per day, 7 days per week, so I definitely need something substantial. I'm trying to avoid being like the mansion next door with the Generac that is so loud it can be heard a block away....but I'm sure they are cool and comfortable inside Smilie

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glickmpb

Oct 01, 2024 12:24 PM

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Unless you need clean power for sensitive electronics, buy a generator. The prices of battery backups is OUTRAGEOUS but people keep buying them for some reason. I bought a Ridgid 5700 wat generator for about $600 at the time and recently bought a Westinghouse Tri Fuel 14.5kw for $1600 OTD. I have a 5 bed house with 2 central AC's, 2 furnaces, etc... People are clueless as to how fast those batteries would be depleted in my house and look at the cost difference! Plus, once those batteries are dead they need to be recharged!

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Unless you need clean power for sensitive electronics, buy a generator. The prices of battery backups is OUTRAGEOUS but people keep buying them for some reason. I bought a Ridgid 5700 wat generator for about $600 at the time and recently bought a Westinghouse Tri Fuel 14.5kw for $1600 OTD. I have a 5 bed house with 2 central AC's, 2 furnaces, etc... People are clueless as to how fast those batteries would be depleted in my house and look at the cost difference! Plus, once those batteries are dead they need to be recharged!

"...once those batteries are dead they need to be recharged!"

Yes, thank goodness generators don't need fuel to run.

Here's a thought. Pair these batteries with solar panels so they can be recharged "by the sun." Better yet, buy solar panels AND the EcoFlow inverter generator so you have multiple options. You know, like, when you can't get fuel to your house after a disaster.

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TL88

Oct 01, 2024 07:18 PM

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>as we always do at 70-71 throughout the day.

This is definitely why your usage is above average. I set mine to 70 at night when in bed, but during day is 75.

You would need a substantial setup - not these portable batteries, but a full solar setup with a full wall of batteries. The Generac is definitely the better way to go if you want whole home, reliable, backup power.

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CyanLumber787

Oct 01, 2024 10:35 PM

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Quote from glickmpb

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Unless you need clean power for sensitive electronics, buy a generator. The prices of battery backups is OUTRAGEOUS but people keep buying them for some reason. I bought a Ridgid 5700 wat generator for about $600 at the time and recently bought a Westinghouse Tri Fuel 14.5kw for $1600 OTD. I have a 5 bed house with 2 central AC's, 2 furnaces, etc... People are clueless as to how fast those batteries would be depleted in my house and look at the cost difference! Plus, once those batteries are dead they need to be recharged!

Pair the battery backup with a generator to make your fuel last longer. These batteries would charge relatively fast on the generator and when you don't need so much power just use the battery, more power, use the generator.

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Huffdawg

Oct 02, 2024 02:49 AM

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Quote from glickmpb

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Unless you need clean power for sensitive electronics, buy a generator. The prices of battery backups is OUTRAGEOUS but people keep buying them for some reason. I bought a Ridgid 5700 wat generator for about $600 at the time and recently bought a Westinghouse Tri Fuel 14.5kw for $1600 OTD. I have a 5 bed house with 2 central AC's, 2 furnaces, etc... People are clueless as to how fast those batteries would be depleted in my house and look at the cost difference! Plus, once those batteries are dead they need to be recharged!

Yep just bought the westinghouse tri-fuel and will tie it into my natural gas line and never look back 🤙

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glickmpb

Oct 02, 2024 12:14 PM

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Quote from CyanLumber787

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Pair the battery backup with a generator to make your fuel last longer. These batteries would charge relatively fast on the generator and when you don't need so much power just use the battery, more power, use the generator.

The point is you still need a generator and its a fraction of the price of these expensive batteries. Whats the point??

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glickmpb

Oct 02, 2024 12:15 PM

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Quote from ianf

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"...once those batteries are dead they need to be recharged!"

Yes, thank goodness generators don't need fuel to run.

Here's a thought. Pair these batteries with solar panels so they can be recharged "by the sun." Better yet, buy solar panels AND the EcoFlow inverter generator so you have multiple options. You know, like, when you can't get fuel to your house after a disaster.

Thats why people buy dual fuel and trifuel generators! By the way, you know how many solar panels you will need to charge these batteries?? Just buy a real generator and save yourself tons of $$$.

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ganachain

Oct 02, 2024 12:46 PM

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A good point of these from the prepping angle is to get 3.6kWh or 7.2kWh with a backup battery and a 2-3 portable 400W solar panels and in a hurricaine helene situation where power is out for an extended time and you're going to run out of gas/LP/LNG you can, assuming no extended periods of overcast, charge up the Ecoflows indefinitely to run a fridge/freezer and some electronic equipment.

Ecoflow even sells a dual fuel generator so it can be an additional automatic recharge option when there isn't enough solar or you are running too many things and need to top off.

Solar panels only gain 3-5% extra efficiency TOPS when tilted to the appropriate angle for your latitude. I put a couple of 400w panels flat on some portable 6' tables in the back yard and got ~750W charging from two of them.

No doubt it's way more expensive to run a house off of solar generator than a gas/LP/LNG setup.

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burgerbob

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Oct 04, 2024 01:16 AM

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burgerbob

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Quote from glickmpb

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The point is you still need a generator and its a fraction of the price of these expensive batteries. Whats the point??

Temporary power for your fridge and freezer so you don't have to get up at 2am to roll out the generator. Or if it's still storming and your power has been out for hours and it's about to spoil. Or you live in a condo or apartment and can't run a generator.

Helene just hit us and a battery power station would have let us run the generator for a couple of hours to fill the batteries and then shut it off for most of the day, saving fuel and letting us go days longer. Sometimes you can't just go get more gas, because every station within a hundred miles is out of gas or has no power.

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brownricebran

Oct 04, 2024 02:38 AM

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Quote from ZeeOhhSix

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According to my power company, I used 48kWh yesterday for my 1600 sq ft house. It was only 76 degrees. The cost was $7 of electricity. So I would need....6-7x the capacity of this combo to have one 'normal' day of power?

What do you do to use that much power? What kind of HVAC do you have?

ZeeOhhSix

Oct 04, 2024 03:32 AM

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Quote from brownricebran

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What do you do to use that much power? What kind of HVAC do you have?

I don't know, honestly. We have nothing but LED lights throughout the house. Hot water heater is Gas. Stove is gas. We have 3 laptops that probably use 50 watts each, and a desktop that draws about 500watts. A monitor/tv attached to that desktop draws another 355 watts average per the manual. Now that I look at it, that's 1KW per day from the desktop and monitor. The rest must be attributable to the Air Conditioning, I guess. Just found a few old emails one from December 20th that was 30kWh and one from March 19th that was 33kWh. No air con being used then Smilie

I guess we just use 30ish kWh every day all year round.

quaked

Oct 04, 2024 03:35 AM

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Quote from glickmpb

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The point is you still need a generator and its a fraction of the price of these expensive batteries. Whats the point??

I'm in Houston and my power was down for four days during Hurricane Beryl and so I bought an Ecoflow Delta to pair with my trifuel generator. I shut off my generator at night to let it rest. I bought the Ecoflow Delta with 3.6kw to power the fridge, freezer and ceiling fans over night.

People waited in line for hours to get gas for the cars and generator. I'm a bit of a prepper. I have back up to the back up to the back up (gas tanks, propane, natural gas, batteries). I was fairly comfortable during the hurricane. Can't say the same for people whose generators broke or ran out of fuel

Last edited by quaked October 3, 2024 at 08:37 PM.

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