Thank you. I really appreciate follow up reviews. Many like something right off then later down the line figure out the little uncomfortable bugs they didn't realize in the beginning.
I found a 3D printed item on E T S Y that eliminates use of the EF 5" collapsible hose. It's basically a bell reducer, with "bayonet" lugs that allows one to use a 3" diameter flexible hose. The lugs are compatible with the 3" Valterra RV fittings designed for waste disposal. Some teardrop/squaredrop trailers (campers) are using them to supply the trailers with a/c and/or heat. The bell reducer has threads to accept the 5" EF hose connector ring that attaches to the Wave 2 unit. I've done a test, and am running a 3" Wye fitting off of the bell reducer attached to the Wave 2, and supplying a/c to my squaredrop trailer, while simultaneously (via the 3" Wye fitting) supplying a/c to the rtt (roof top tent) mounted on the squaredrop trailer. The Wave 2 sits on a folding (portable) tire step on a trailer tire.
I’m using my wave2 right now in my living room. I have it on a cart with wheels so I can move it to the bedroom at night. I just hook the exhaust tube and made a window board to put it through. There’s no need to use the intake tube in my Opinion. I always use the condensation drainage tube. I learned early on that it will fill with water if I Don’t. Humidity here in Eastern WA State averages 25-40% but it produces a lot of water somehow. During winter I used my wave2 for heat. Same setup except no need for drainage tube.
Thanks for the honest review.Ecoflow dropped the ball on this product IMO.I understand this is lightweight,portable and inexpensive, but alot to improve on with this.I think most people that want the wave 2 in their vehicle are going to custom make something to fit better.Keep up the good honest content good sir👍
I purchased the wave2 when it first came out and I wouldn’t call it inexpensive. I like it though and I used my wave2 all winter at home. I keep it on a cart with wheels. I can heat or cool which ever room I’m in. My home is very well insulated and was built with 2 by 6’s instead of 2 by 4’s. Just having friends over makes the temperature go up in this house. Now it’s July and been over 100 degrees several days in a row outside. I’m using the wave2 in my living room. I use a small swamp cooler in my electronics room. Both run off solar power. My home HVAC is set on 76 degrees. It comes on around 3 pm each day so these solar powered coolers are helping keep my electric bill down.
Did you even watch the review? No ball dropping from Ecoflow dude. Quotes from the review include: “it really does the trick”. “More than adequate for my 144 square ft ”. “Huge help removing humidity.”“ Very happy with the setup.” “Very efficient AC power unit.””Nice cool air coming out”. “One of the easiest and most efficient solutions to portable air conditioning.” “Pretty decent solution for boondocking.” “Pretty affordable especially on sale”. Serves me well in workshop environment. Definitely take with me to more permanent installations. Pretty versatile. “Compelling for moving around to various installations. So yeah I don’t know what you watched or if you have your own agenda but your comments are BS. I suggest people watch the review and see for themselves.
@@Lowgradenarcolepsy I use my wave2 a lot in my house. I like the portability aspect. It wasn’t cheap though. I used it all last winter and this summer almost daily. Works great to save on electricity. I run it with solar power. We had a bunch of 100 + degree days and my home HVAC usually didn’t come on until 2 or 3 pm.
I have mine in my class A RV and it is amazing. Quiet yet powerful. Cools the space to perfection. Has absolutely revolutionised my time off grid where I hated sleeping in a sweat 😅
You hit nail on head, almost all these amateur you tube videos are too long, too much story telling. 99% of us who come here are looking for hard quick facts.
you have that set up wrong, you are sucking extremely hot air from your roof into the machine which makes it work so much harder to cool the air, leave the inlet pipe off so it’s sucking in progressively cooler air and as the air gets cooler the outlet air will be cooler also, this will cool the room so much more efficiently, I have this air con in my caravan and I works so much better with the inlet pike left off and a window slightly cracked (5mm)
It’s a dual hose air condition for a reason. Dual hose systems are more efficient then cheap single hose ones. If you only use one hose, you generate negativ air pressure that pulls hot are in from the outside or adjacent rooms back in the room you are trying to cool down. Cracking a window is the worst you can do. He did setup this system perfect.
@@holgerk6352 talk is cheap, I just used mine in our rx5 tent and it is 5 degrees cooler having the intake inside the tent using the cool air from inside the tent to cool run the the condenser rather than the constantly hot air from outside making the machine work harder to cool the air, are you American?
@@holgerk6352ok I’ve just returned from 5 weeks in north QLD where temps reached 38 Celsius, I did some testing with this thing, tried the twin hose out the window so I’m equalising pressure and in turn the unit is constantly working it’s butt off trying to cool 38 degree air, it was pretty much a losing battle, I did have the hoses apart so it wasn’t sucking in the hot air that was coming out, next I did it my way and only had the hot air expelled from the unit going outside, so this is where the fight begins, there is a slight negative pressure as the unit expels hot air it needs to be replaced as you say and absolutely correct, my unit works much easier when it is pulling in cooler air as the unit does it’s work, agreed I could see the canvas concave a little and hot air from outside must be getting in from all the cracks and crevices, this was not enough to make a noticeable difference, the van was much more comfortable doing it this way so it’s how I’ll continue to use it. I am about to head off again to where it’s up to 52 Celsius which is extremely hot and we detect at night only, that may be too much for this little thing but we do have a 240v portable air con to use if needed, I agree with your statement that you can’t beat physics but you can make it work to your advantage and bend the rules a little.
I use it in my van if the nights are going to be over 80 (rare for me). I bought the plastic window insert on Etsy, put the Ecoflow on my swiveled drivers seat, and insulate the exhaust hose with duct insulation from amazon. I then cover all my windows with van essentials magnetic covers. The Ecoflow will cool about 10 degrees below outside temp. For bed, I further insulate the cab area and use an extra long duct to the bed in the back. With the cold air blowing directly on me I am comfortable. This thing is nowhere near great, but in my mind it’s good enough and I didn’t need to drill holes or add another battery and solar panel to my van.
Thanks for reviewing. Great job. Ridiculous price on this. Maybe useful for tent camping. Just bought a Midea duo 14000 Btu portable AC for only $600. It is outstanding!
Appreciate the review. The window kit looks awful. I think Ecoflow finally outdid themselves on making something worse than their 400 watt solar panel “stand.”
Currently van camping in Michigan with my Wave 2 perched between the two captains chairs on a platform I made to support it. I use an xt60i cable and keep the wave battery charged from two lithium batteries in the van. For the window passthrough for the vent tubes I cut some 1" polystyrene insulation board and that works perfectly. Has the advantage of working the same in either side window. The EF solution looked like it would be inside out in your driver's window but maybe not.
Thanks for your comment. I also have two batteries in my van with a 2000w pure sine inverter and planning to by the wave2 either with or without the battery, don’t know what to do yet, but what xt60i cable do you recommend in case I want to keep my wave2 to charged getting power from my two batteries, I see some cable on amazon but they have low rates on wattage and amps. I plan to have my wave2 running for a few days without running my engine to charge the aux batteries and then the wave2 battery.. I would really appreciate any advice as I don’t know much about electrical power..
@@victorb2899 when you say 'with or without the batter' do you mean the optional Wave2 battery? If you don't use that, you are limited to running the Wave from 120v (inverter in your case). If you have the optional battery you can run/charge the Wave from DC power which is more efficient. I found that with the xt60i cable I was able to pull about 137 watts of power from my batteries. It isn’t enough to fully run the Wave but it helps offset the power consumption from the optional battery making it last longer. When I went to bed at night I switched the Wave to ‘eco’ mode and when it wasn’t actively cooling the power coming through the xt60i cable was enough to slowly recharge the Wave’s battery. Over the course of the 5 days I camped the Wave battery never went below 75% as it always pulled the ~137 watts from my two LifePO4 batteries in the van. In the past I have run it completely off AC using my inverter and that works fine too. Just be aware it uses more power that way. I have upgraded to two 410AH batteries and together they are more than enough to last through a trip. I love to be ‘cold’ when I sleep so I give the AC a good workout : - )
@@will_ren thank you for your reply. You have good battery storage . Sorry if my comment was confusing. I am replacing my deep cycle lead batteries with a single lifepo4 300ah as it fits exactly under the passenger seat together with the diesel heater, planning to add more later under the van. I’m getting the wave2 without its optional battery but instead I will power it from a delta2max, also delta2max has 2 xt60 ports and I plan use these ports to get power from the lifepo4 300ah battery to keep the wave2 running… but wondering how this will work if I will be using both xt60 cables connected to the same battery… also not sure how much wattage the delta2max’s xt60 ports can accept. Since the battery is a 12 volts the watts accepted by the xt60 ports on the delta2max could be the same like in your case (137w). If that’s the case I would be looking into a 12 to 24 volts boost converter and the watts input on the xt60 ports will be double or something like that. I also ordered this interesting RENOGY 12V/24V IP67 50A DC-DC Battery Charger with MPPT that has a max solar processing of 360w (they said a 400w panel will work with it), they said I can adjust the amps coming from starter battery to the house 300ah battery.. also can monitor the statistics on their app. I found that my van’s alternator doesn’t like too much pressure so I really need a battery charger for my house battery, (I was charging my lead batteries directly connected to the starter battery with a manual switch). The ecoflow 800w alternator charger is good but works optimally with their power stations only.. I wonder how do you charge your two lifepo4 batteries ?
Hey ReeWray - have you run it enough to tell me if it shuts off when it reaches the set temperature? Lots of people were complaining last year that it kept running past the set point and I haven't found any updates from folks. Do you know?
I'm a fan of EF stuff, however, the window kit device looks a bit lacking as far as being a functional design. I would probaly try to find a sheet of closed-cell foam, and then custom fit/cut it to fit the vehicle window for the hoses.
Agreed. I think it'd be ok in a pinch but for more regular use, seems like you could whip up something thats a bit less fiddly and a bit more air tight
You basically need an insulated partition for the front half of the unit. Like a heavily insulated curtain. Insulation for the vent tubes cuz they're carrying heat, cold. And you don't want it breaching the side you're on, and limitless power for this easily portable genius design..lol
I'm sure this works in states that rarely reach triple digit temperatures, but here in Texas I doubt that this unit would work during our summer months. As always good video.
That's a great point, and I suspect you're right. Should still work for small spaces that are at least semi-insulated - but a car in 100F Texas sun...pretty heavy lift.
@@SecretSauceyjuice the humidity was ok. I bought the weather full reflective sunshade and it actually worked to lower the heat around 25 degrees. It worked best when you have the reflective in the car for a day after driving the car. So if you had the ac and put the sunshade rig by after so the cooling temperature of the car is trapped in it - it cools it decently. You can comfortably stay in the car. Not hot not cool
ive been using it in my van.. and it absolutely struggles to even keep the temp under ambient at night.. duinno what I'm doing wrong or whats wrong with it. the app is showing output at 58-65 but my van NEVER gets cool.
That's embarrassing for Ecoflow, I wonder if that product designer is still with them! I've seen better solutions people have come up with just made out of wood and some nice looking 3D printed pipe vehicle window outlets! Shame Ecoflow!
If the ad on battery is charged to 100% and you don't even use it by the next day it will be 84% . It struggled to keep the cab of my semi cool even though the outside temp was only 76 at night. Don't waste your money. Chinese junk.
@@JordanB-lc4oi Fast charging isn't janky if it works, that "window kit" tho, extreme jank! Being from EcoFlow, I can only imagine what their charging for it! (And I own EcoFlow products)
Thank you. I really appreciate follow up reviews. Many like something right off then later down the line figure out the little uncomfortable bugs they didn't realize in the beginning.
I found a 3D printed item on E T S Y that eliminates use of the EF 5" collapsible hose. It's basically a bell reducer, with "bayonet" lugs that allows one to use a 3" diameter flexible hose. The lugs are compatible with the 3" Valterra RV fittings designed for waste disposal. Some teardrop/squaredrop trailers (campers) are using them to supply the trailers with a/c and/or heat.
The bell reducer has threads to accept the 5" EF hose connector ring that attaches to the Wave 2 unit. I've done a test, and am running a 3" Wye fitting off of the bell reducer attached to the Wave 2, and supplying a/c to my squaredrop trailer, while simultaneously (via the 3" Wye fitting) supplying a/c to the rtt (roof top tent) mounted on the squaredrop trailer. The Wave 2 sits on a folding (portable) tire step on a trailer tire.
where? link please :)
Great info, yes link please!!
Love my wave 2 !
Boy, good thing they didn't make the portable window kit out of a dark color, that gives off high heat when hit by Sunlight!
; ) ; ) ; )
I’m using my wave2 right now in my living room. I have it on a cart with wheels so I can move it to the bedroom at night. I just hook the exhaust tube and made a window board to put it through. There’s no need to use the intake tube in my
Opinion. I always use the condensation drainage tube. I learned early on that it will fill with water if I Don’t. Humidity here in Eastern WA State averages 25-40% but it produces a lot of water somehow. During winter I used my wave2 for heat. Same setup except no need for drainage tube.
Thanks for the honest review.Ecoflow dropped the ball on this product IMO.I understand this is lightweight,portable and inexpensive, but alot to improve on with this.I think most people that want the wave 2 in their vehicle are going to custom make something to fit better.Keep up the good honest content good sir👍
U dropped 🫳 the ball
I purchased the wave2 when it first came out and I wouldn’t call it inexpensive. I like it though and I used my wave2 all winter at home. I keep it on a cart with wheels. I can heat or cool which ever room I’m in. My home is very well insulated and was built with 2 by 6’s instead of 2 by 4’s. Just having friends over makes the temperature go up in this house. Now it’s July and been over 100 degrees several days in a row outside. I’m using the wave2 in my living room. I use a small swamp cooler in my electronics room. Both run off solar power. My home HVAC is set on 76 degrees. It comes on around 3 pm each day so these solar powered coolers are helping keep my electric bill down.
Did you even watch the review? No ball dropping from Ecoflow dude. Quotes from the review include: “it really does the trick”. “More than adequate for my 144 square ft ”. “Huge help removing humidity.”“ Very happy with the setup.” “Very efficient AC power unit.””Nice cool air coming out”. “One of the easiest and most efficient solutions to portable air conditioning.” “Pretty decent solution for boondocking.” “Pretty affordable especially on sale”. Serves me well in workshop environment. Definitely take with me to more permanent installations. Pretty versatile. “Compelling for moving around to various installations. So yeah I don’t know what you watched or if you have your own agenda but your comments are BS. I suggest people watch the review and see for themselves.
@@Lowgradenarcolepsy I use my wave2 a lot in my house. I like the portability aspect. It wasn’t cheap though. I used it all last winter and this summer almost daily. Works great to save on electricity. I run it with solar power. We had a bunch of 100 + degree days and my home HVAC usually didn’t come on until 2 or 3 pm.
I have mine in my class A RV and it is amazing. Quiet yet powerful. Cools the space to perfection. Has absolutely revolutionised my time off grid where I hated sleeping in a sweat 😅
You hit nail on head, almost all these amateur you tube videos are too long, too much story telling. 99% of us who come here are looking for hard quick facts.
you have that set up wrong, you are sucking extremely hot air from your roof into the machine which makes it work so much harder to cool the air, leave the inlet pipe off so it’s sucking in progressively cooler air and as the air gets cooler the outlet air will be cooler also, this will cool the room so much more efficiently, I have this air con in my caravan and I works so much better with the inlet pike left off and a window slightly cracked (5mm)
It’s a dual hose air condition for a reason. Dual hose systems are more efficient then cheap single hose ones. If you only use one hose, you generate negativ air pressure that pulls hot are in from the outside or adjacent rooms back in the room you are trying to cool down. Cracking a window is the worst you can do. He did setup this system perfect.
@@holgerk6352 talk is cheap, I just used mine in our rx5 tent and it is 5 degrees cooler having the intake inside the tent using the cool air from inside the tent to cool run the the condenser rather than the constantly hot air from outside making the machine work harder to cool the air, are you American?
@@holgerk6352 sometimes you need to think for yourself and work things out.
@@FroggysGoldProspecting you can not beat physics
@@holgerk6352ok I’ve just returned from 5 weeks in north QLD where temps reached 38 Celsius, I did some testing with this thing, tried the twin hose out the window so I’m equalising pressure and in turn the unit is constantly working it’s butt off trying to cool 38 degree air, it was pretty much a losing battle, I did have the hoses apart so it wasn’t sucking in the hot air that was coming out, next I did it my way and only had the hot air expelled from the unit going outside, so this is where the fight begins, there is a slight negative pressure as the unit expels hot air it needs to be replaced as you say and absolutely correct, my unit works much easier when it is pulling in cooler air as the unit does it’s work, agreed I could see the canvas concave a little and hot air from outside must be getting in from all the cracks and crevices, this was not enough to make a noticeable difference, the van was much more comfortable doing it this way so it’s how I’ll continue to use it.
I am about to head off again to where it’s up to 52 Celsius which is extremely hot and we detect at night only, that may be too much for this little thing but we do have a 240v portable air con to use if needed, I agree with your statement that you can’t beat physics but you can make it work to your advantage and bend the rules a little.
I use it in my van if the nights are going to be over 80 (rare for me). I bought the plastic window insert on Etsy, put the Ecoflow on my swiveled drivers seat, and insulate the exhaust hose with duct insulation from amazon. I then cover all my windows with van essentials magnetic covers. The Ecoflow will cool about 10 degrees below outside temp. For bed, I further insulate the cab area and use an extra long duct to the bed in the back. With the cold air blowing directly on me I am comfortable. This thing is nowhere near great, but in my mind it’s good enough and I didn’t need to drill holes or add another battery and solar panel to my van.
Thanks for reviewing. Great job. Ridiculous price on this. Maybe useful for tent camping. Just bought a Midea duo 14000 Btu portable AC for only $600. It is outstanding!
Appreciate the review. The window kit looks awful. I think Ecoflow finally outdid themselves on making something worse than their 400 watt solar panel “stand.”
Currently van camping in Michigan with my Wave 2 perched between the two captains chairs on a platform I made to support it. I use an xt60i cable and keep the wave battery charged from two lithium batteries in the van. For the window passthrough for the vent tubes I cut some 1" polystyrene insulation board and that works perfectly. Has the advantage of working the same in either side window. The EF solution looked like it would be inside out in your driver's window but maybe not.
Thanks for your comment. I also have two batteries in my van with a 2000w pure sine inverter and planning to by the wave2 either with or without the battery, don’t know what to do yet, but what xt60i cable do you recommend in case I want to keep my wave2 to charged getting power from my two batteries, I see some cable on amazon but they have low rates on wattage and amps. I plan to have my wave2 running for a few days without running my engine to charge the aux batteries and then the wave2 battery.. I would really appreciate any advice as I don’t know much about electrical power..
@@victorb2899 when you say 'with or without the batter' do you mean the optional Wave2 battery? If you don't use that, you are limited to running the Wave from 120v (inverter in your case). If you have the optional battery you can run/charge the Wave from DC power which is more efficient. I found that with the xt60i cable I was able to pull about 137 watts of power from my batteries. It isn’t enough to fully run the Wave but it helps offset the power consumption from the optional battery making it last longer. When I went to bed at night I switched the Wave to ‘eco’ mode and when it wasn’t actively cooling the power coming through the xt60i cable was enough to slowly recharge the Wave’s battery. Over the course of the 5 days I camped the Wave battery never went below 75% as it always pulled the ~137 watts from my two LifePO4 batteries in the van.
In the past I have run it completely off AC using my inverter and that works fine too. Just be aware it uses more power that way. I have upgraded to two 410AH batteries and together they are more than enough to last through a trip. I love to be ‘cold’ when I sleep so I give the AC a good workout : - )
@@will_ren thank you for your reply.
You have good battery storage . Sorry if my comment was confusing. I am replacing my deep cycle lead batteries with a single lifepo4 300ah as it fits exactly under the passenger seat together with the diesel heater, planning to add more later under the van.
I’m getting the wave2 without its optional battery but instead I will power it from a delta2max, also delta2max has 2 xt60 ports and I plan use these ports to get power from the lifepo4 300ah battery to keep the wave2 running… but wondering how this will work if I will be using both xt60 cables connected to the same battery… also not sure how much wattage the delta2max’s xt60 ports can accept. Since the battery is a 12 volts the watts accepted by the xt60 ports on the delta2max could be the same like in your case (137w). If that’s the case I would be looking into a 12 to 24 volts boost converter and the watts input on the xt60 ports will be double or something like that.
I also ordered this interesting
RENOGY 12V/24V IP67 50A DC-DC Battery Charger with MPPT
that has a max solar processing of 360w (they said a 400w panel will work with it), they said I can adjust the amps coming from starter battery to the house 300ah battery.. also can monitor the statistics on their app.
I found that my van’s alternator doesn’t like too much pressure so I really need a battery charger for my house battery, (I was charging my lead batteries directly connected to the starter battery with a manual switch). The ecoflow 800w alternator charger is good but works optimally with their power stations only..
I wonder how do you charge your two lifepo4 batteries ?
THANKS i haven't unboxed mine yet. i would have been shocked at window kit! if your staying put you should cover windows from sun. 🤔
Do you really need intake hose set up
Have you heard of the Eco-Worthy ECO-PS2000(US)? there's no info on it anywhere
Hey ReeWray - have you run it enough to tell me if it shuts off when it reaches the set temperature? Lots of people were complaining last year that it kept running past the set point and I haven't found any updates from folks. Do you know?
I'm a fan of EF stuff, however, the window kit device looks a bit lacking as far as being a functional design. I would probaly try to find a sheet of closed-cell foam, and then custom fit/cut it to fit the vehicle window for the hoses.
Agreed. I think it'd be ok in a pinch but for more regular use, seems like you could whip up something thats a bit less fiddly and a bit more air tight
You basically need an insulated partition for the front half of the unit. Like a heavily insulated curtain. Insulation for the vent tubes cuz they're carrying heat, cold. And you don't want it breaching the side you're on, and limitless power for this easily portable genius design..lol
Can you sleep with the noise?
I'm sure this works in states that rarely reach triple digit temperatures, but here in Texas I doubt that this unit would work during our summer months. As always good video.
That's a great point, and I suspect you're right. Should still work for small spaces that are at least semi-insulated - but a car in 100F Texas sun...pretty heavy lift.
@@ReeWrayOutdoorsI am trying it down in Texas and on a 103 day and it cooled down the car about 10 degrees lol
@@Ysomultilingual How was humidity that day? The more humidity it has to deal with the less temperature change it can exert.
Camped yesterday in my insulated van 98f outside humidity 20 ish.
Can't even bring the temp down by 5 degrees.
@@SecretSauceyjuice the humidity was ok. I bought the weather full reflective sunshade and it actually worked to lower the heat around 25 degrees. It worked best when you have the reflective in the car for a day after driving the car. So if you had the ac and put the sunshade rig by after so the cooling temperature of the car is trapped in it - it cools it decently. You can comfortably stay in the car. Not hot not cool
ive been using it in my van.. and it absolutely struggles to even keep the temp under ambient at night.. duinno what I'm doing wrong or whats wrong with it. the app is showing output at 58-65 but my van NEVER gets cool.
Same here. Idk if I have a bad unit or everyone on yt is bs'ng.
Most reviews I’ve seen claim it doesn’t work over 70 degrees .
Cool
Watch the police give you a ticket once they see you slerping in your car with that on..
As a van solution it’s trash. As a tent solution it might be ik
That's embarrassing for Ecoflow, I wonder if that product designer is still with them! I've seen better solutions people have come up with just made out of wood and some nice looking 3D printed pipe vehicle window outlets!
Shame Ecoflow!
Wow. That looks pretty ugly. Why would anybody want this in a car?
If the ad on battery is charged to 100% and you don't even use it by the next day it will be 84% .
It struggled to keep the cab of my semi cool even though the outside temp was only 76 at night. Don't waste your money. Chinese junk.
Window kit=Extreme jank, expensive, extreme jank.
Jank??? I thought so..what about the so-called generator with the extra fast charger??
@@JordanB-lc4oi Fast charging isn't janky if it works, that "window kit" tho, extreme jank! Being from EcoFlow, I can only imagine what their charging for it! (And I own EcoFlow products)