Відео

While I couldn't say for sure but the Delta 2 has 1800W inverter, while it is pumping water it may also turn on the heating element to heat the water up which will likely push it above the 1800W. If this is the case you could try using the X-Boost feature which will allow the inverter to generate up to 2400W at the expense of the stability in voltage. You're washing mashine may be okay getting slightly lower votlage but more amps for a short period of time which may allow it to continue working. While I don't think it would damage your washing machine there is a small risk with this option. An alternative would be to run your washing machine with a cold wash so the heating element isn't turned on.

@@MattWells0 thank you for your reply.. it"s occur while pumping the water out.. this happened just when connected to the battery not the grid power 😕

@@yaserazrak clearly the washing machine is doing something the Delta 2 does not like. My limited knowledge of a washing machine while in the pumping out stage is that a pump turns on long enough to start a siphon and it is the siphon that actally removes most of the water from the machine. I don't know if it is true of all washing machines though. The only thing I can think of, and I am really clutching at straws beyond my knowledge, is if the siphon is continuing to move water through the pump which is back feeding electricy to the power source. A grid wouldn't notice power being back fed but an inverter definetly would have an issue with this. If this were to be the case, having a small load turned on around this phase of might be enough to cancel out the backfeeding of power. I was thinking about a lamp but they tend to only draw 10W, you might need something more like 50W (an older incandecent lamp or maybe fan). I will say that I am really just guessing at this point but it might be easy enough to test.

@@MattWells0 thanks again.. didn't cross my mind that this is might be the issue.. I'll try again. My gratitudes

You are most welcome, I'm glad to have helped. You can add the "[Device Name] Solar In Power" for your Delta 2 but sadly it is difficult to track the battery state as there are bits that aren't accounted for correctly because Ecoflow aren't sending the data.

@@MattWells0 Thanks, I wanted to mention that "EcoFlow-Cloud" just stopped working for me, so that's not good. I need to do more troubleshooting. Still, I'm happy that I know how to use HACS. That will keep me busy.

@@wastenotwantnot5953 That does happens from time to time. I think the Ecoflow MQTT server disconnects all the connections randomly, perhaps a server update or something. The way I got around this is to have an automation that ran every 5 minites that checks the Status is "assume_offline" and if it is restart the Ecoflow Cloud service.

Thank you for watching :)

Hard to say, if it is overcast but light you can actually get better solar as the clouds bounce the light more. If it is a dark overcast day you can get practically nothing. On the January 12th I got a total of 300wh from an array of 2500w panels. Winter is absolutely brustal, for example in total in December I got 36kwh, April was 110kwh, this month (today is May 5th) I'm already at 20kwh. I don't have accurate data from last year but I believe in August I got closer to 180kwh.

@@MattWells0 thankyou , basicly I'm going full-time Vanlife and wanted something simple to power everything like a ecoflow and solar but just wondering if it's doable 🤔

@@Billy88London to run off solar in summer I would expect you could. I don't have exact numbers but I suspect you could probably get 800w (I'm guessing) on the roof of your van and I would expect that from spring until automn that would be enough. There is also an accessory that Ecoflow sell called EV X-Stream Adapter which will allow you to charge the battery from an EV charger which would take about an hour which could be helpful. Failing that there is also the option of charging using the 12v accessory socket while your engine is running but that would be slow at about 100w (36 hours for a full charge). It depends on your loads, if your trying to run a full desktop computer for 8 hours every day probably not. If you have a laptop and phone along with boiling a kettle every few hours probably last a few days of bad weather.

@@MattWells0 thankyou so much mate your the only one that has helped me , yea basicly IL be running everyday stuff like a Tv fridge freezer charging mobiles toaster. Cooker and kettle I may try gas , is it loud when charging through the mains ? as I could try doing that in a library gym McDonald's etc but if it's very loud I think I'd get asked to leave 🤣

@@Billy88London it isn't quite when charging at full speed, but you can reduce the charge rate to make it quiter. 800w charge rate is where it becomes very audible but it would then take 4 hours to charge. I have been considering changing the fans out for some quiter ones but I haven't done so yet. If you are using a portable fridge you would probably be okay so long as it is powered by the 12v accessory socket. TV is probably fine, if you can convert it to run off DC rather than AC as well, even better. Best advice I can give you is to look at how much power the equipment you need uses. Decide how long you want to be able to run that equipment for, assuming you have no way to charge your battery and size your battery accordingly. You may find a Delta Max 2 may be enough, or an extra battery is needed and me lower than the Delta Pro. If you know the weather is going to be bad, avoid using your toaster for a couple of days.

I'm quite happy with it. I used to run my computer direclty from the Delta Pro's inverter and it would generally last between say 5:30 and 11pm depending on the games I was playing. Problem is if you forget the power will suddently shut down without warning. I now use a PowerStream to feed power into the house mains which a Ecoflow Smart Switch telling it how much power the computer is using so when the battery runs out the house power will continue un-interupted. Just be aware that this is a full gaming computer not optimised for power usage. Can use between 250w to 500w depending on the game. At 250W it could play into the early hours, at 500W it it will be about 3 hours. If you have a power monitor use it to see how much power your computer use while playing games you like. A Delta 2 is 1kwh which would run my computer at 250W for 4 hours and 500W for 2 hours.

My understanding is that this normal way of wiring things in the UK but I am not an electritian so don't quote me on that. It has been running for nearly 2 years and I have not had an issue. Where I have had an issue is with an MC4 connector that I had clearly been crimped badly and was heating up quite a lot. The copper in the cable had clearly degraded and gone very stiff, the wires going into the box still feel normal. I am going to be moving house soon so it might be a good opertunity to put ferrals on the cables, I didn't have any at the time but I do now.

A tumble tryer is definetly an expensive way to try clothes, outside on a nice day is best but I now have a good dehumidifire it uses a lot less power and has the added advantage of helping to keep the humidity in your house down when the clothes are dry as well.

I'm afraid that I have no idea. I have started using the Ecoflow-Cloud Home Assistant addon which has been forfilling my needs github.com/tolwi/hassio-ecoflow-cloud

@@MattWells0 Hi i added the ecoflow cloud too, but idk if i get all stats, which entitys did u put into the battery of the energy dashboard. they all have other names now.

@@XandorionI use "Solar In Energy" in Solar production and for Battery system "Solar in Energy" for in and "Discharge Energy to AC" for out although now I am looking at it I'm not completely convinced that it is doing what I thought it was...

Hi djoeneh, you can tie a Delta Pro to the grid using an Ecoflow PowerStream but it is limited to a maximum 800w and really to make it work with variable loads you need Ecoflow Smart Plugs as well. I wont claim that it is a complete replacement to a Tesla Powerwall but it is what I have an it is helping to lower my power bill.

Hello, thanks for your reaction, I found out you can use the powerstream with a iobroker script to regulate the output(i can read out my mainbreaker in realtime) this can work for me

thanks :)

I might have to do the same this coming Christmas. The one just gone I had to dodge 3 named storms each with gailforce winds and I saw gusts of over 60mph. My display has been beaten a bit this year and servived (mostly).

This is my garden, I have a video on how I made it last year although I have changed stuff for this year: ua-cam.com/video/IFoYtZriMZA/v-deo.html

Thank you very much! I look forwards to seeing what you do next year :D btw I can give you links to stuff on my channel without having my comments deleted by the algorytham if you have any more questions :)

Thank you :)

Thank you :) have you got any more pinball stuff coming soon?

@@MattWells0 always fixing something 🤪

Hi, sadly Ecoflow broke the original addon used in this guide and it no longer works, there is now another addon that you install here github.com/tolwi/hassio-ecoflow-cloud

@@MattWells0 This is also the Git project that I integrated. I see all the values in the statistics. But when I try to add these to the energy dashboard, I can't find any entries from the addon that I could add.

@@1972SCOTCH it will only work when the senor has data (so after you have had solar for maybe an hour) but it will be called something like "sensor.[device_name]_solar_in_energy" sadly the PowerStream is no able to be shown in the Home Assisant Energy Dashbaord yet I'm afraid.

I'm just over 1.5 years at this piont, its going strong and I'm still happy with it. Capacity still seems good you just need to do fully cycle it from time to time to ensure the battery % remains accurate. I have a video here checking the capacity at the 12 month marks ua-cam.com/video/f6kJkuEPy_A/v-deo.html In UK Nov/Dec/Jan almost no solar even with 9 250w panels (3s3p) but that isn't an Delta Pro specific issue An "upgrade" I have made is the Ecoflow Power Stream (their microinverter) and the last update finally fixed a problem I have been upset with where you can't charge with excess solar from the PowerStream and the Delta Pro's own solar panels at the same time. I was going to make a video about the PowerStream but I didn't like it until now, maybe next year when we start getting more sun again.

That is how I run them now, little sad that I can't see 1800W any more, maxes out at around 1200-1300W now but it is much safer.

No it hasn't been fixed but there is another integration that is similar that I have using for the last few months github.com/tolwi/hassio-ecoflow-cloud

hi Raho, I now use the Hassio Ecoflow Cloud integration ( github.com/tolwi/hassio-ecoflow-cloud ) the installation is almost the same for setting up HomeAssistant although changes a little when setting up devices. As for the PowerStream I have been writing the code for this integration and they are using different ways to control it so it is only able to read the information from the PowerStream at the moment but I would like to add the ability to change the base load.

I will have to remember that for next year. I'll be interested to see how it will compare as I now have a PowerStream connected to it.

Sadly that is the case for the NCM batteries. I do feel that the original Delta Max was designed for use while camping, picknicks and camping which 1000 cycles would last a very long time but not for daily use. After somewhere around 16 months my Delta Pro has done 360 cycles while has lost some capacity (5% I think I tested it out as, I do have a video on that) is still more than capable of doing what I want with it. If you were to use it like I use my DP it would be at 80% capacity in 3.5 years. How do you intend to use it?

I am assuming you are taking about ecoflow's own solar panels. While the answer is yes, you could connect them in parallel using an MC4 Y connector the Delta 2 can only accept 500w of solar. This is can be useful as it means on a less than ideal weather day you are more likely to get the 500w maximum.

@@MattWells0 astronergy's 400W panels

@@OriginalThisAndThat yeah I'm afraid the Open Circuit Voltage (VoC) is nearly 40 volts so you can't connect the panels in series which would put the voltage up to 80v when the Delta 2 only supports 60v and higher than that does risk damaging the Delta 2. If you were to have more than 1 solar panel it would have to be in parallel. This combines the amps for those panels could product up to 25 amps short circuit current (isc) while the Delta 2 spec says it only supports a maximum of 15 amps. Usually you can have higher amps on a solar charge controller than they are rated for (this is often called Over Panelling) but you cannot do that with volts. I do this with my Delta Pro, however it isn't officially supported by Ecoflow, if you do it, it is at you're own risk. The advantage of over panelling is that you will sustain the maximum power input of the solar charger for longer during the day, and can capture more solar energy on days where a single panel cannot capture the full 400W it is rated for due to cloud cover for example.

@@MattWells0 Ok. Thanl you.

My solution was to add more solar panels, I'm now up to 9 in 3 strings of 3 panels which has a peak of just over 2kw. It has to be a really dark cloud day for me to now have enough power to run my work computer.

Yeah I have no do doubt that 2DPs+extra batteries would power a house for a day or 2, maybe more with care. I have actaully done a test of a washing machine and tumble tryer in another video. The only down side is it is an expensive settup, in 220v world the only way to combine 2 DPs is with the Smart Home Panel by which point there are definetly cheaper solutions available but does fix the short comings of just having the DP units.

@@MattWells0 building from scratch is lot cheaper. But these plug and play systems will catch up

@@sun-sea-solar I wasn't even nessassarilly meaning a DIY solution, more along the lines of if you are after a house power solution like Powerwall, Powervault or xStorage which are designed from the ground up to power your house rather than a portable solar generated that has the ability to power a home. I haven't looked at the costing so I may be completely wrong with this assumption. Looking at about 20kwh Ecoflow system would be £16500 + installation, the Powervault 15174 (installation included) so more closer than I thought dependong installation cost of the Ecoflow system.

Are you saying that the BMS wont ballance while the battery is being charged? I have to say that would dissapointing if true =/

@@MattWells0 It will but the fix if it shifts to where you have a longer charge or run time at either end ( 1% and 99%) then a fill discharge, recharge then let it sit will recalibrate it. It is true of any power station and not just an Ecoflow thing.

@@rjbfreelander2 you know, I think I might have inadvertantly done this while doing this test, I have noticed that the battery has been lasting longer than I was expecting. Although this might just be because of the way I have arranged my solar panels compared to last year, but it could just be that the trees that normally block the light in the summer haven't really started to make leaves to block the sun. Either way next time I do the test I will make sure I fully charge it and leave it to balance.

​@@MattWells0 Best way to go about it that. Just took delivery of an Ecoflow River 2 today. Arrived 30% so topped up via solar and will do a full cycle then leave over night. Plan is to have it take over as the main cycled unit dealing with device charging. The River Mini W will need to find a new use. Looking forward to your future updates. All the best.

I would love them to send me a new one xD I am, sadly, not popular enough yet for Ecoflow to notice me so I doubt that I will get that oppertunity, maybe if I keep my fingers crossed. Something that I can say though is that I did actually work on a capacity test when it was still fairly new, sadly I lost the video, but I remember the results putting it very close to the 3.6kwh promised so it was at least at one point able to do it.

That is kinda normal unless you are buying a charge controller of inverter individually. Even the most effecient DC-DC voltage converter can only do about 98% effeciency, when you start converting from AC to DC about 90% effecient and DC to AC about 85% effecient (rough numbers). So a total loss of about 22% is actually very resonable but perhaps not something I would expect a normal consumer to know/understand/care about. You ask a very good question, I am happy with the Delta Pro, I am glad that I bought it as it does exactly what I want it to do. However, I wouldn't buy it again, not because it isn't a great product but because it has allowed me to learn so much about batteries/solar/inverters and if I were to be given the option I would buy the cells and make my own power wall like Offgrid Garage or Digital Mermaid. With that said without having first bought the Detla Pro I don't think I would be in a place now where I would feel comfortable doing that.

I love Off Grid Garage, but I’m thinking about selling all my battery’s, inverter, smart shunt, battery charger and MPPT and buying an Delta Pro.

@@christianmarler21 oooh how big is your battery and what equipment are you using?

Yes I have noticed similar things, I have cycled the battery to achive this because it does notably "forget" how much capacity it has. This is completely normal for battery monitors, think it is calle drift, especially with LiFeP4 where you can't use the voltage to work out how much capacity is remaining until right at the start and end of the charge cycle. I will have to remember about leaving it off for 4 hours though as I don't think I have been doing that.

Thank you, I'm currently working on a video showing the remaining capacity of the battery after 1 year, I should be releasing it this weekend :)

On a not aweful day (yesterday for example) my Delta Pro starts noticing charging around 6am (like 10W) but not until more like 8:30 before I start seeing 200W then back down to less than 50W at 5pm. It really does depend heavily on the weather though today it didn't get above 8am and never got above 200W. Make sure you do your best to point the solar panels as directly at the sun as you can, it really does make a huge difference.

​@@MattWells0 thanks for the reply, really appreciate it! Yep, tried again today and, lo and behold, our 750w of solar is generating a whole 30 watts for our river 2 max. It's a start and, more importantly, it's WORKING!

@@imnottellingyoumyname3050 my array should be able to generate about 2800W but the Ecoflow Delta Pro can only use about 1300W the way I have it wired at the moment I would imagine on a nice day around 12-2 is when to expect to see around the 750W the panel is rated for. How are you finding the River Max 2? It looks like a very solid battery pack.

​@@MattWells0 it's great mate. It's a temporary measure that currently keeps us going on our boat that we live aboard. Just want to say your videos were so useful in helping us understand that was possible so thank you very much for doing what you've done. We kept all our laptops running and charged the river max 2 up 45% today. Videos like yours have helped us so much; we were heading to the local library 4 times a week to charge up. You've probably helped us save a good 6 hours a week. Can't tell you how grateful we are!

@@imnottellingyoumyname3050 ooooh what boat do you have? Part of the reason I got the delta pro is because I wanted to be able to get an idea of power requirements so that I could also live on a sailboat and see the world.

Sorry I'm not at home to check so I'm going from memory. Once you have connected energy monitors (such as ecoflow or home assistant glow) there should be an option on the menu for Energy which is the graphs at the end of the video

@@MattWells0 no problem, I was able to figure it out

Thank you, I have to say I enjoy doing these light shows and is something that I think about on and off for much of the year. I hope to have another view out soon, hopefully this weekend so please keep an eye out. It is odd to me that you're so keen to get rid of Biden, from an outside perspective I see him positively.

@@MattWells0 We have the Bill of Rights and the Constuction here that he's pissing all over not to mention A Man is Not a Women and country's need borders. AND he's said to be involved with China along with his son. Bad time in history for the U.S.A. but we did it to ourselves.

I think it can be but it does depend on how you use it. I use mine to power my work and gaming computers mostly and at the time of purchase I worked out that it would take 4-5 years to pay itself back. To find out if it can work out for you is find how much power the devices you intend to use takes (in watts) and how many hours a day you expect to use it for and multiply them by eachother to find out how many watt hours you will need and device that by 1000 for kilawatt hours which is what electric company normally charge in. For example my computer uses 250 watts and I may would likely have it on for 16 hours most days would give me 4000 watt hours so 4 kilawatt hours (kwh) or about £1.20 a day. You can take the cost of the solar generator and dviide by that number to work out how many days (roughly) it will take to pay it off. It does get a little more complicated in the winter for example, in the UK there isn't really enough sun, especially with bad weather, to generate enough power to quite charge it and use it at the same time.

Is that the one with 500Wh capacity? That's fantastic if it is

​@@MattWells0 yes it's only 512Wh... but I have been playing. I connected 2 of my 4amp Ryobi one+ batteries to the XT60 port in the back . Witch gives me an extra 128Wh :) and I do have a 12V 100Ah LiFePO4 battery that should give me another 1200Wh. but I have not tested it yet

@@IamMotorHomeless You know, I hadn't thought about connecting power tool batteries for charging but that does make a lot of sense, especially in your case. If you can get hold of some eScooter batteries at a good price they may work out well for you, jehugarcia has a video about it ua-cam.com/video/j4hGq7VdsBQ/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/FhhND-AG1Jw/v-deo.html

@@MattWells0 I have not seen that one, I have been watching @TheKilowattChallenge he is using old 18650 Cells that he seems to 'find for free'

@@IamMotorHomeless I have made a 7s battery or of 18650s using jahu's design, I don't intend to make a video about it at some point. Mine came from old laptop batteries that I shucked

Hi Bjorn, I am aware of this, it was actually broken about 4 months ago, a couple of weeks after I published this video. However, from what I understand Ecoflow have opened the port that is used again on the Delta Pro in the very latest version of the firmware that was released a few days ago whoever I cannot confirm this myself. github.com/vwt12eh8/hassio-ecoflow/discussions/58#discussioncomment-4864313

@@MattWells0 ty ty ty, the firmware have not reached me yet, i hope that the person that were in charge for making life difficult for at lot of people, and for reducing the product to a brick and hurting thrust and sales now and in the future was reassigned to blowing up ballons in china :)

I haven't had issues with it at all, it has just worked for me and still happy after 10 months and 250 battery cycles. Generally the usage had been at around 250-300w powering computers.

I understand the fear, it is a huge amount of money to spend, I was very hesitant about buying it and it took me a couple of weeks to finally make up my mind. Mine had worked flawlessly in the 10 months since I got it, and when I have had questions Ecoflow support have always been quick at getting back to me. However, I don't know what they would do in the event of a warranty claim. 2 years is normal for a warranty period for this kind of device and I would expect it to break just because it is our of its warranty period. Given they have information on the product page of 3500 and 6500 battery cycles that it has a good chance of doing that which at a cycle a day would put it in the 9 to 10 year lifespan.

I still have my delta pro, still happy with it

Hi Martin, this is an interesting question and something I have only had a very brief look at and come to the conclusion that wind with solar generators isn't really a thing. They are designed to work with solar panels, wind requires additional electronics to manage the excess power that wind produces without damaging the turbine. The only way I could think of is to have a buffer battery which the wind turbine charges but since the solar generators I have seen only has a single DC input you would also need to add the solar into the buffer battery. By the time you make a big enough buffer battery to push enough power into the solar generator you may as well just make your own complete system. I think it is possible but I don't think it would be easy to do.

If you look in your router's admin panel (usually found at the IP address 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1 but not always) you will likely find a list of devices and their IP addresses often called something like "connected devices" or "DHCP reservations". Each one is different so I can't really give you specific instructions on how to find it but on that list there will be a device that starts with the Hostname like "EcoFlow_xxxx" that will be the one with your address. Please be warned that this guide may no longer work for you, Ecoflow did a firmware update about a month after I released this video that stopped this Home Assistant addon from working. There is a lot of work going on to get a fixed version working again and I will be posting a new video about it when I can. By all means give it a try but it may or may not work.

You are quite right, there will be likely be some voltage drop with the cable I am using, I knew that when I made this video, I think I even hinted at it although didn't say it. I have been intending to run the numbers but I haven't gotten around to it. What I can tell you is since I made this video I have now got 9 solar panels and depending on the time of year I either run a 4s2p which gives me 120-140v in the summer which I have seen pulling in 1700W for breif periods. Or as it is now in winter 3s3p for about 80-100v and around 1300W peak, not that I see that to often. I can feel some warmth from the cables when it is pulling 1700W, I am unsure if that is just because the sun is heating it up for if it is the resistance of the cable at around 18amps. Either way I am happy enough with this cable that I cannot justify spending the money to get anything better. Something that I had considered doing is this cable has 3 conductors, I'm only using 2 of them, I could pair up the spare conductor with one of the other 2 and reduce the amount of resistance (half?) in one direction at least. I was thinking about making a video on it but I haven't gotten around to doing it yet.

Probably not so long as you are using good cables, if the panel uses the standard MC4 connectors they are probably fine. That isn't to say that other connectors are wrong or dangerous, they are just most common. For a more technical answer 100w panel is probably about 12v so a maximum current of about 9 amps. The wire will likely have a number on it followed by "awg", if the number is lower than 20 they should be okay but the smaller the number better, I would probably want at least 18 awg. The lower the number the thicker the cable is. What breakers, fuses and other things like that are mostly for is to stop to much power going through cables which can only carry so much current (amps). If they carry to much they can heat up, in extreme cases can cause fires. If you do want to get a breaker find it what power your cable can handle (there are charts all over the Internet for this) and find a breaker that is about that current (in amps) or a little bit less that is rated for DC (direct current), most are AC (alternating currently) and cannot handle DC. If you are ever unsure please do ask a qualified electrician.

I'm really sorry you have had a bad experience with them. I bought my Delta Pro from a third party receller and not Ecoflow so I have no experience with purchasing from them directly. However, when sending questions to Ecoflow's support they have always been helpful and quick to get back to me. Just a quick look on their website it does seem as though you overpaid for an Ecoflow Delta Max 2000 which is $1599 on sale, with a regular price of $2099. Please do check your invoice to see exactly what you paid for. My advice would be to return the device for a refund if you are unhappy with it.

@@MattWells0 hey Matt. I purchased mine from the Canadian website. My receipt that was emailed to me also says " deltamax 2000 + 220w solar panel black friday -2022. $2199." When I called the company and spoke to a rep, he told me I'm not the only one to call to complain about not receiving the solar panel. I emailed them to find out about returning the item I was emailed back from the company and informed I would have to pay $70 for shipping and another 3.6% of the purchase price of $2199 because I paid using PayPal as a penalty. This info is also on their website. My experience so far with this company has not been good.

@@DaveC-sx3gl From what you have said it does sound like Ecoflow have royally screwed up. In the UK we have laws to protect consumers of this (Trade Act 2021 for a start), but I am unfamiliar with Canadian law but I would imagine that you would have something similar.

@@MattWells0 yes I have sent out a few emails to those government agencies charged with protecting the public from these sorts of issues. Hopefully it helps.

@@DaveC-sx3gl I really hope that you get it sorted out, I can see why you wouldn't want to do any more business with them. I would like to know what happens when you get a resolution if you happen to think of me at the time.