Ecoflow Wave 2 Air conditioning for Van life. (Not sponsored)
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2023
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The two tubes vs one tube, is to remove the negative pressure from and pulling the heat from outside into the van. Two tubes, you wouldn't get that negative pressure. It also cools better and more effective. It's the like a dual hose portal AC you put in houses. It also uses that exhaust to expel that vapor it removes too, so it's more efficient on getting that water outside instead of draining (in the cooling mode).
It took me a while to understand but it‘s true, the 2 tubes is always better than a one tube setup. What can be deceiving is the idea that with one tube the AC is getting colder faster because it is sucking already cold air in. But this is a deception and is not actually giving you a better result. The fact is, that air needs to be sucked into the AC and if the air comes from the inside of the room/car, then a negative pressure will develop and air will come into the room somehow, and that air will always be the hot air from the outside. So with the one tube, the air might feel colder faster, but the hot air will come into the room and the net result will be less efficiency compared to a two tube system. There is two reasons why the two tube system is better: firstly, if the one tube system is actually taking the cold air, then its taking that cold air away form the already colder room and some of it will be expelled again, and warm air will leak into the room. Secondly, the AC is creating that negative pressure and actually has to work harder to suck air out of the room, the more negativity it creates, therefore it has to use more energy to create the same results. In a two tube system, there will always be a pressure balance, and hot air will only come into the AC, never directly into the room. The AC then is well equipped to convert that warm air into cold air and expellees the rest out. Creating a more energy efficient cycle. I guess the main takeaway is that with an AC hot air will always come inside the room, but it is better to channel this hot air through the AC that is equipped for this and then keep a neutral balanced pressure with the room that it cools down. I hope that helped. It took me a while to understand myself. Cheers!
Finally someone who has tested both heater and cooling usually its just cooling obviously would be the season of when they was sending them out
Works well enough, achieved 15 degree difference (which felt cool inside the square drop trailer-in the shade, the lowered humidity helped a lot too) in 95F and 80% humidity weather here in Florida. I was also running two small USB powered fans to circulate the cooler air. My main complaint is not being able to mechanically/manually set the unit to external drainage. Every time the unit shuts down the drainage is reset to internal, which in turn shuts down the unit when really full, which happens a heck of a LOT here in Florida. The hoses, being proprietary sizes are also a PITA to hook up to anything commonly used in small trailers. The Wave 2 was outside the small square drop due to space issues, I also wish the company made a raincoat for the unit.....
not sure why it's controversial about it recycling the cold air already inside instead of pulling air from out side and cooling it. Look at your cars it's always gonna get way colder recycling the air already in the car. Turn recycle off on the car and the air will immediately get warmer
It is a heat pump! Not an AC. You must vent the “B” side (the back side of the unit) to outside air. If you don’t do this the B side will will pull conditioned interior air from the cabin and exhaust it outside. This will create a negative pressure in your cabin and pull in un conditioned air into the space.
Yehhhh a small hate pump isn't a replacement for another heating soruce which doesn't require electicity and can work even work well when it's -15C, It's a nice addition so that overnight you can leave it running with less fear that it will start a fire or poison you and it uses your solar pannels so if you have spare elecrisity it is nice to be able to use a heat pump, and obviously during the summer it's nice to be able to not fry and in that application you are going to be getting plenty of solar to run it assuming you have like 600 - 800W of solar you can almost run it 24/7 because it will on average draw more like 200 - 300W because it will turn off and on as the tempeture flucutates.
Surprised you have been able to run it for so long without the drain pipe and app setting switched on, what a joy when run without that and then move the unit to get covered in water 🤣 other than that i think it’s a great bit of kit.
Setting an air conditioner to 16’C is absurd. Not many aircons can work properly at 16’C. 22’C would have probably made the van cooler because the a/c would be humming along!
The correct saying is: “You can’t have your cake and eat it TOO”.
Very interesting findings - bit like heatpumps imagine if your van is well insulated would work a treat. Thanks for sharing - all the best, David 👍
Great video!
Understanding AC is often confusing. Ecoflow is quite useful as it is a true split portal ac. Most portable ac use an electric vaporizer like LG first did. Means switching between cooling and then venting moisture. So non split ac can’t constantly cool. Humidity is big factor in cooling. The traditional window unit ac has the compressor and radiator/heat exchanger on the outside. Any excess water just drips off to the outside. Meanwhile the fan usually pulls inside air which is cooled over the radiator then blown back into the room. Some units have an option to pull the outside in. Portable unit tend to be a single hose as they non split. So the exhaust and input tend come on one hose, which cool only half the time. It’s lot less efficient. If unit had dehumidifier mode, it would need a drip hose or after running for awhile the water trip test fills up and shutdown the unit.
Seems like you could create a cabinet for it to live and cut dedicated ports for inflow/airflow. If your trip doesn't require AC, have some port hole covers and leave it at home for more storage.
Great review, just bought ours, taking it camping in January over an Australian summer.
recirculating cooled air is how most domestic mains Aircon units work, there is no air drawn from outside. Vehicle aircon usually feeds fresh air instead, but on really hot days, you've probably noticed that setting it to recirculate cools the car faster.
Awesome review thank you 🎱
Hey mate, Great vid, I’m In Australia and do a lot of camping in a small hard top, roof top tent, very interested to know how much power it draws as I would like to hard mount it in my canopy, or are there other options out there that are more efficient for a smaller space and better suited for hard wiring ?
Awesome review 👌 be ideal in an awning in the heat of the summer when camping 🤷🏻
Lots of people on here not understanding how air conditioners / recycling works. The tube in / tube out system is a loop of air. This does the "cooling."