NEW EcoFlow River 3 - Smaller & Cheaper...but BETTER?!? Definitely.
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Last week I got a deal that included the bag and solar panel for only $199 on the Ecoflow site! Crazy! 🥰
I have tried several different brands, but my River 2 units always outperform in every area.
Just purchased this AND a set of 45W solar panels for $199 on Amazon. Couldn't pass up that price for the combo deal. It's my first Ecoflow so I am stoked.
I think you ordered the old river 2 for $199
@@beebop4333 No sir. Unfortunately can't share a pic of my Amazon order, but it is indeed a River 3 with 45w panels for $199. I placed the order over the weekend, the bundle has since gone up to $209.
@ReeWrayOutdoors, I thought you had an ongoing spreadsheet with all the powerstation specs that you reviewed, but can't find it, only the power use one. Thx!
Thank you for the review.
The river UPS is rated for 20 ms, unlike the delta 3 plus, which is rated at 10 ms, so they are not the same. Also, the battery pack itself is IP54 rated, not the entire unit.
@joshreynolds7781 You're right! Apparently the original pre-releaae specs I'd gotten had changed and I didn't catch it before publishing.
@@ReeWrayOutdoorsstrangely, EcoFlow seems to be having a hard time figuring out what products they are releasing this year. When they first published these products, there was also a delta 3, which seems to have disappeared. The specs have also changed on several units. Don't know why
another great review, just ordered one with free EF ECOFLOW Backpack, Thank you Sir :)
If I were designing a power station in 2024 I'd have no USB-A ports and all 140W USB-C ports. I completely agree with your sentiment and I'm glad others are finally saying it.
Very interesting that the AC inverter is more power efficient than DC.
I'd like to see self-consumption (no load) tests demonstrated for AC and DC, the Delta 3 Plus self-consumption is like 35-40W on AC. That's quite a lot, I expect a smaller inverter to be much less though.
I can't wait till the River 3 *Plus* gets released, which does have a 10ms UPS like the Delta 3 Plus, unlike the regular River 3, which is 20ms. I am planning to replace all my old lead acid UPS units with the River 3 Plus.
For an entry level, small power station this is a very nice redesign. You won’t be able to run much on it but it would be super handy to charge smaller items away from a power source. The Amazon deal with the included solar panels as someone mentioned below would be the way to go on this at $199. That would be a very low investment to get your feet wet on what something like this can do. Nice review, thanks! 👍🏻
This is not a big issue for me as I really only need mostly the 12v side of this which the 12v plug hole will be occupied all the time, as used in mobile operations to power a CB and rear-view camera system and to charge up small rechargeable lights and have the solar panel which is 60 watts and the covers are rather in the way of my operations, as a survival set-up, the backpack frame is bare bones, I have is a rather larger carrying frame, designed for scavenging as I have a "bucket list" for the Zombie Apocalypse. The backpack system is really designed for 72 hour emergency pack designed to get you back to your safe house zone, allowing for 3 days grace where ever you are held up at.
Also the pack will hold the power system requirements, water, and filters for the gas mask, as they are relocated into the pack. It is to make it a lite as possible as a "standard" load-out, and still be able to battle the Undead, as stamina useage of trying to keep with the "normal" load bearing weight one can naturally hold. Having a "redundancy" system on yourself at all times.
The CB radio operates better for localized operational ranges, like in a group of a small community. The rearview camera system is mounted to my medivial steel plate helmet for quick glances for sisuation awareness. I would be the smaller groups communications and power centre, if none were not present. Also you could power up a mini Starlink system for internet usage if still operationally of coarse. The mission equiptment -> than can be attached if neccessay to the back pack ontop of the "standard" load out, as you might be taken back ground or an area and make a salilite HQ or a redundant safe house to fall back to, the additional thus is left there for that purpose.
As the objective is to carry the torche as long as possible and bounce back to an era of time that will now support us all. Try and cushion the fall of the collaspe and then "sencond generation" and provide innovation ergonomics to keep time in efficencey and effectiveness, and you will have to borrow from yesterday untill you can self maufactor and re-educate the next generation for it.
For some one the size of the unit for the River 3 could be of importance, could make them system just pop for them in getting everything to "fit", then it comes to cooling or keeping longivity for this tightness within the frame work of it, a dice role sometimes of slight pros and cons.
A very comprehensive test 👍 It would be even better if you can find out what type of inverter it is (Square wave or Sine wave?)
Patiently waiting for the River 3 pro.
Is it a 20A three prong AC outlet?
Solid video, thanks!
REALLY GOOD VIDEO. 👍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Hey in ups mode, if power goes out long enough to drain the battery, when the power comes back will it automatically power on and work again? Or does it need you to turn the ac output on again?
@frostyfroze7352 with the new EcoFlow app, it can automatically turn the inverter back on. Pretty cool stuff.
Wait till the smartest commenters find out that a desktop pc has a power supply brick that is 8x bigger than the brick on your laptop
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Always enjoy your videos. I have noticed on several of your videos that sometimes the DC load capacity tests prove to be more inefficient than the AC load capacity test. I would have assumed that the DC tests would show greater efficiency since there is no conversion of DC to AC. Would you know why one would get better efficiency on A/C over DC? Thank you for your videos and hard work.
Some of the new systems with large inverters, do this by running 48V battery systems instead of 12V. Pecron, Oupes, etc. So all the 12V is made by converting from 48V. Turns out this conversion is less efficient than going from 48V to 120V ac, in some. My Pecron e1500LFP is about the same, actually. This has ramifications for say camping, where the conventional wisdom of running as much on dc as possible, may no longer be true. The oupes Mega2 actually has 2x 48Vdc outputs, but unfortunately I am not aware of any truck or camping equip that uses 48v in the US.
@@dave_in_az Will that explains a lot . Several years ago I purchased a lot of 12V equipment like fans, electric blankets, lights and such for camping and I love that my little jackery 500 can run a 12V fridge for 44 hours and the other can run my cpap for 4 nights with the humidifier. Thanks for responding.
Great review. Best I’ve seen. I’m new to this. Thank you for stating the type of solar charging cable is required. Searched high & low nothing stating which one. Appreciate it
Great review
This is a good gift. Nice device!
Question 🙋🏻♀️ What brand Solar Panels do you recommend? Thank you for all the great videos you make. I’m a newbie to solar and just recently purchased an EcoFlow Delta 2 😊
He has a bunch of videos on panels, watch them for his already made efforts on recommendation. For the ecoflow delta2, its solar input is:
Solar Charging 11-60V, 15A, 500W max
So, be sure the Voc for your panels is less than 60V. If you use 2x panels, parallel or series will work fine, but it will only use up to 15A and 500W of power. In series, Voc adds, so they each need to be less than about 28Voc for cold temperature safe limits.
Good afternoon, through the EcoFlow app is it possible to turn off the confirmation button press “beep” sound?
Yes it is
would i be able to run starlink with this? i would buy it if i can
Im sure you can
Please explain the spreadsheet. It does not show how long the reviewed power stations runs devices. I only see a single worksheet, and honestly I don't understand the information in it. Thank you.
@Gwen3344 so first you'll need to download the sheet so you can edit your own copy. Then you would edit the AC Inverter cell to reflect 300W and the battery capacity cell to reflect 245Wh, matching the River 3 specs. The spreadsheet will then show in green what things it can run and the approx runtime of those things .
@@ReeWrayOutdoors Okay. Thank you!
@@ReeWrayOutdoors Thank you!
Are all the your UPS tests flawed? Even power stations without UPS will work in your tests, since they all have pass through mains charging. You're just pulling the AC cord out.
UPS tests are to see how quickly the device can switch from pass through charging to operating off the devices batteries / inverter. This is a good test of the UPS function, do some research into it and see if you can understand why it’s a valid test.