Ecoflow River Pro Portable Power Station

[Jimjo]

Hi - I have recently watched a review of the above (<Broken link removed> station) on You Tube (Yorkshire Pop Top Adventures) and it does look quite impressive.
We have a Ducato panel van with a standard leisure battery and solar panel. We don't do nor expect to do long periods off grid, but may do up to 3 days or so occasionally.
Rather than pay out for lithium battery and inverter etc this seems like a good alternative and probably cheaper for what we need although it still costs £699. Would welcome your thoughts and suggestions.
We would probably use it primarily for charging phones, iPad Pro (which we use as our TV) boiling the kettle and power for a toaster and hair dryer. The leisure battery can still charge the fridge and some LED lighting, but that would probably be the only draw on it. Gas would heat the van and hot water.

Thanks

 

[Guigsy]

720WHr is only 60Ah. A lithium leisure of that size is about £350. And it'd charge auto-magically with your existing solar, whenever you hook-up or when you drive.

It also only supports 600w of AC output. Which is a pretty slow kettle and a very unsatisfactory hair dryer.

 

[Jimjo]

720WHr is only 60Ah. A lithium leisure of that size is about £350. And it'd charge auto-magically with your existing solar, whenever you hook-up or when you drive.

It also only supports 600w of AC output. Which is a pretty slow kettle and a very unsatisfactory hair dryer.

Thanks for that - I’m not very good on this stuff - can you do a straight swap from a standard leisure to a lithium without the need for any other changes such as an inverter? Cheers

 

[Gaston aires]

Thanks for that - I’m not very good on this stuff - can you do a straight swap from a standard leisure to a lithium without the need for any other changes such as an inverter? Cheers

You only need an inverter if you want to run appliances on 240 volts. Even then you can only use those appliances with a lesser wattage than the inverter.
Phil

 

[Jimjo]

You only need an inverter if you want to run appliances on 240 volts. Even then you can only use those appliances with a lesser wattage than the inverter.
Phil

Thanks

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[Jimjo]

Thank you

 

[Jev88]

£669 would buy you 7 standard leisure batteries. You only need 2 or 3 for light usage off grid.

 

[Jimjo]

Thanks. My problem is space to take more batteries. Cheers

 

[Googlebot]

A lithium leisure battery at nearly twice the capacity of that plus a B2B charger will give you much more for less than that price.

You need a very beefy inverter which is heavy and large to run a kettle, and probably more than one battery.

They can be useful for some situations these power banks, particularly the day van types that also use them as vans at times and don’t want a permanent install.

The problem with inverters is that the associated energy use and requirements, quickly gets very expensive.

I would check if your van has a B2B already installed, and if the solar charger supports lithium as well, £500 should be more than enough for a decent lithium that will double your capacity for half the weight.

 

[busby]

£669 would buy you 7 standard leisure batteries. You only need 2 or 3 for light usage off grid.

Struggle for room in my van for one leisure battery,,BUSBY.

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[Jimjo]

A lithium leisure battery at nearly twice the capacity of that plus a B2B charger will give you much more for less than that price.

You need a very beefy inverter which is heavy and large to run a kettle, and probably more than one battery.

They can be useful for some situations these power banks, particularly the day van types that also use them as vans at times and don’t want a permanent install.

The problem with inverters is that the associated energy use and requirements, quickly gets very expensive.

I would check if your van has a B2B already installed, and if the solar charger supports lithium as well, £500 should be more than enough for a decent lithium that will double your capacity for half the weight.

Thank you - appreciate the advice

 

[Jamesh]

I would use one as a buffer between my power tools and my vans 2nd battery which it uses for internal lights, step etc.

Having a powerpack would act as a buffer and take a slower charge from the 2nd battery / alternator...

 

[Jimjo]

Thanks