Ecoflow river 2

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Well the courier turned up today with a little brown box with a gouge out the card and a dent in the corner but the big chunk of foam saved it from any damage...

So promptly demonstrated its charge rate to my dad using his electric :lol: it was shipped at 24% power so in the 40 mins I was there It hit 92% before I finished it off on the drive home in the cig lighter.

So far it seems well made plugged the living room TV into it and after a few minutes to let it stabilise it was showing a fluctuation between 47w 50w draw from the battery and a approx run time from full to flat of 3h 50mins ... Which for its size seems very impressive ..

Will play with it more over the coming weeks and see how I get along with it
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Nice one, these seem to be the Market leaders atm.

They have listened to most of the other brands customer complaints and incorporated them into their products.
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pseudonym wrote: Wed Jan 04, 2023 8:47 pm Nice one, these seem to be the Market leaders atm.

They have listened to most of the other brands customer complaints and incorporated them into their products.

I did lots of reading the fast charge (1hr) on mains the LifePO4 batteries and the 5 yr warranty did it for me plus the inbuilt charging guts so just a IEC kettle plug to charge it plus in-built charge controller for vehicle / solar

Not expecting masses of power from it at an equivalent of 20ah but plugged the TV in to it so far and it's showing just Shy of 4hr run time. Main use will be off grid camping either solar or vehicle charge ...

Rolling power cuts the 1hr fast charge will be a huge bonus
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Yorkshire Andy wrote: Wed Jan 04, 2023 8:32 pm Well the courier turned up today with a little brown box with a gouge out the card and a dent in the corner but the big chunk of foam saved it from any damage...

So promptly demonstrated its charge rate to my dad using his electric :lol: it was shipped at 24% power so in the 40 mins I was there It hit 92% before I finished it off on the drive home in the cig lighter.

So far it seems well made plugged the living room TV into it and after a few minutes to let it stabilise it was showing a fluctuation between 47w 50w draw from the battery and a approx run time from full to flat of 3h 50mins ... Which for its size seems very impressive ..

Will play with it more over the coming weeks and see how I get along with it
Looking forward to your review of it mate as i know you are very good with this stuff , i have 3 of the small type now lol don't ask , but i keep looking at the eco mainly because of Funkyprepper lol now you are on it to so i think i will watch your review of it but it might have to be a treat .
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steptoe wrote: Thu Jan 05, 2023 12:01 pm
Yorkshire Andy wrote: Wed Jan 04, 2023 8:32 pm Well the courier turned up today with a little brown box with a gouge out the card and a dent in the corner but the big chunk of foam saved it from any damage...

So promptly demonstrated its charge rate to my dad using his electric :lol: it was shipped at 24% power so in the 40 mins I was there It hit 92% before I finished it off on the drive home in the cig lighter.

So far it seems well made plugged the living room TV into it and after a few minutes to let it stabilise it was showing a fluctuation between 47w 50w draw from the battery and a approx run time from full to flat of 3h 50mins ... Which for its size seems very impressive ..

Will play with it more over the coming weeks and see how I get along with it
Looking forward to your review of it mate as i know you are very good with this stuff , i have 3 of the small type now lol don't ask , but i keep looking at the eco mainly because of Funkyprepper lol now you are on it to so i think i will watch your review of it but it might have to be a treat .
I did a lot of digging I avoided the prepping YouTube lot some are as mad as a bunch of crazy people :lol: the camping and caravanners / van life/ narrow boat people are actually using them if that makes sense rather than buying one or being given a freebie trying it on the TV then sticking it in a cupboard ...
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Few pictures

Front panel
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Back panel kettle type plug

Yellow Is the solar and 12v inlet
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Just as a quick test

A mains 4w led reading lamp gives a estimated 16 hours + of run time

A 36" flat screen TV 3h50m ISH

Mobile phone fast charging on the usb c in "turbo mode" gives 22h of charging

220w heated clothes rack (resistive load) 56 mins which I find quiet impressive
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That's nice, will be interesting to see how it performs over time.
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deckard wrote: Fri Jan 06, 2023 9:51 pm That's nice, will be interesting to see how it performs over time.
Made a solar charge lead up last night hopefully we will get some sun tomorrow to see the rate of charge
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Well I've been using it for a few weeks to run a pedistal type room lamp with a 15w led lamp and the TV it's happily providing 3 3/4 hours of run time

Pulls about 50 -52 w when the TV is on "economy mode" which dropped the screen brightness a bit but saves about 10w of power consumption
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