this is from a company called Eco flow I have reviewed a few of their models before and the
river 2 Pro is a Perfect Blend really of power output compact size and it's got a very good
little handhold on it and it only weighs 7.8 kilos which is not a bad weight considering it
does output 800 watts it can Peak with the X boost mode they claim up to 1600 Watts now we do have a
capacity of 768 Watt hours and it will charge very quick only 70 minutes to fully charge this using
AC of course and you see down here I do have some Echo flow solar panels now this is called the 220
watt bifacial solar panel so I'll be testing the output of this to see how close to that 220 watts
can I get here in the current conditions and of course running through a few tests of the river
2 Pro now I just wanted to point out that this is not a sponsored video I am not being paid by
ecoflow now in the Box you will find our charging cable we have an AC cable for charging it now it
is very quick as mentioned it's only 17 minutes and here is our car charging cable finally a
quick start guide now the capacity of this one is 768 Watt hours and that's 40 amp hours each
of the taipees is 12 watts each or a total of 24 watts and one type c which is 100 Watts here that
does support power delivery it's very clear the information we get on the screen now it
wouldn't be shimmering like this when you look at it normally it's just on camera that's happening
so we have our hours remaining our battery life percentage right here we've got the output the
input all listed very clear to see this the DC side of things here you see it's got its own on
and off switch so when you power it on it's very quick it lights up with the status LED there now
we've got 126 Watts maximum output out of these DC ports here so we've got our typical cigarette
lighter plugged there and these two here support three amps each where the cigarette lighter is
10 amps Max now all three of the AC ports here do support a maximum of 800 watts and in total
you can get it up to 1050 watts of continual use but it can surge so the peak output of up to 1600
Watts which I'll be testing out later on for how long it can actually surge over the 800 on each
of these ports here so the total just remember that that you can pull so this is from the DC
side of things and the AC is that 1050 Watts on the right we've got our fan here so it does have a
BMS which is the battery management system plenty of sensors in there so fan passively called you
we'll hear this come on when it's under heavy load the Plastics they've used here Eco flow very good
build quality but like some others that I have tested out unfortunately there is no Qi standard
wireless charging pad on the top here which I would have liked to have seen because that's a
nice option to have especially if you're lacking the cables but your phone in emergency situations
does support wireless charging then you could have charged it unfortunately it's not there I
hope they can add it in other models on the left side is where the fan as you can clearly see it
there and as I said before like you will hear it come on now and then and later on I'll give you a
sample of the kind of fan noise you can expect out of the river 2 Pro our AC import plug here so this
is for the fast charging if you want to completely charge that 768 milliamp hour battery you can do
it in just 70 minutes so it's very quick and this is our other input there so this is for the solo
or the car charger and that is 13 amps Max so with solar it's 220 Watts maximum input which
is the same as the solar panels I've got from them which I'll be testing out then the portable solar
panel so this is going to be great for camping that you could set this up and I'll show you
how to set it up in just a second but it is a 220 watt solar panel it's called the ecoflow 220 watt
it's biofacial this particular solar panel has a 23 conversion rate and an ip68 waterproof rating
so this case doubles as our kickstand now it's got a hard part to it so obviously that's the
kickstand portion of it then we've got those little Clips I showed you for the mounting of
it to set it up so this part goes underneath you need to lift up the solar panel just a bit
get it underneath that and then the kickstand I need to lock it on here with this little clip so
I just skipped the video ahead I'll set that up now so I've got all four of them clipped on and I
need to push the panel forward as you can see and then get this at the back here to prop up those
panels add about a well about a 45 degree angle there of course angled up towards the Sun for
maximum efficiency there so let's see what kind of charging rate I can get out of these 220 watt
bifacial ecoflow solar panel so it is currently charging at 192 Watts here is the peak that I have
seen and if I optimize the angle of the panel a little bit more I could probably get around
200 Watts for a portable panel that's not a bad result at all and it's telling me there's about 20
minutes left to charge the remaining nine percent there are countless uses of course for a power
station such as this and one of them is electric power tools as long as it does not exceed 800
watts you are good to go this Bosch line trimmer here is 400 watts that I should be able to use it
for around about three hours or so with the river 2 Pro so I'm going to put it to the test I'll see
how it's going to handle it it should not be a problem at all been only 400 watts [Music]
another option is to charge it in your car so imagine you've got an emergency situation that
you have no power in your house you haven't had power for two days but you've got a full tank
of gas in your calf we'll take a petrol diesel whatever you can then plug it in start to charge
it or you're going on a really long journey and you've only got 50 battery you just want to top
it off then plug it in so I'll have a look and see what kind of charging rate I can get from my car
all right so it isn't too bad a hundred and six seven watts to charge it and it does tell me it's
going to take 22 minutes for me to charge eight percent off the battery at that current wattage
now a bit of a load here so I have a hair dryer here on the first sitting I'll test it out
and see if we're able to use something like a hair dryer with it okay so the hair dryer is
pulling around about 800 watts 600 at the moment and that will go for one hour and you can see that
the fan has come on I can hear that a little bit now we'll step it up to the next level [Applause]
following 800 watts another problem the the 800 watts and now one more this is bringing
it up to now one thousand and five Watts so that's over 800 Peak but it can in total
they say do 1050 Watts so this is looking good I'll see how long I can do this for
all right so overload protection just kicked in that was probably about 40 seconds that I managed
to run it over the 800 watts so that's not too bad it allows for a little bit of search there to
go over the the limit before that kicks in and it turned off the AC side of things so it's probably
timed out already okay so I can yes I can turn that back on now the fan icon is on [Applause]
and there we go AC is working again now I'm going to really overload it just to test out
that protection will it be able to boil water so this Kettle is going to pull I think well over
a thousand Watts so tuning in that on now and just unplug the hairdryer turn on AC of course
all right I don't imagine it's going to go for too long there we go 1017.
once it's pulling now the fan is on because it yes is under load so that's the active cooling
come on make sure it doesn't overheat and it will probably be about the same this will go for around
about 30 seconds or so before it cuts out okay I just heard it Go click and it's flashing there
overload it turned off now if you keep doing this over and over again eventually you would be able
to boil water but it's not really recommended because you are going over the 800 watts
then I have it charging so it's currently charging at about 840 watts and I will
load it up again this is just to test what it's like when it is charging and discharging at the
same time so turn on the AC again and wow that just clicked out straight away overload and it
stopped charging and it did stop discharging as well so it doesn't like to have huge loads over
a thousand Watts at the same time that it is charging at around 840 you can see it's gone
back now to charging at that 840 Watts but the AC side of things completely turned off then
what about the fan noise and any heat well I can feel quite a bit of heat coming out of that fan
the fan is constantly on when it is under load or you're charging because it is charging at
that high wattage about 840 Watts as we've seen displayed on the screen at least and here is
a sample of what you can expect it is a little loud when it is charging like this so it's not
going to be whisper quiet you will definitely hear it if you're sitting right next to it
the river 2 Pro does have app support and it is called Eco flow I'm running it here on Android
so straight away in the first screen we have a lot of very useful information so I can see
that the available time left is 16 hours and 24 minutes and this is calculating it in real time
off the current output which is 32 watts and we've got our input if I was charging it that
would show other information right here too as well but the best part is the settings so
there is a lot in here very useful settings too so you can see we can share the device
with other ecoflow accounts so you can limit the charging speed if you wanted to do that you can
turn it down the car input so instead of eight amps you could change that down to four if you
wanted to and the DC mode I just leave this on auto so solder recharging car recharging
are the two options but Auto seems to work just fine X boost so if you didn't want the surge p
week of 1600 Watts just disable it the battery so you can set the discharge and charge level here
this is a very good setting so if you didn't want to fully charge it then you can just put
that to say 80 and it will stop there so that's good firmware updates we've got the specs of it
temperature unit time outs here so the screen timeout AC timeout you can set that to there as
well so very handy straightforward application so after my testing now of the river 2 Pro I think
it's a decent model here that if you're after a more portable solution with a decent enough
power output to run most Garden appliances most things 800 watts and then it can hold and sustain
around a thousand Watts as you saw for about 30 40 seconds it's not a lot I'm a little bit
disappointed in the peak because I did think the X boost mode would be able to go up to 1600 Watts
but the overload protection kicks in before that but it's good to see that it does of course have
the overload projection overcharge protection it's got the battery management system with
it of course so that ensures that it is going to be a safe battery and I've got no problems
having this sitting at home and charging to within my house because I do know that it
is safety certified and it is using some quality battery sales those lfp cells which are good for
about 10 years the only disadvantages to me of this particular model here apart from you know
they can't really Peak over about a thousand watts is that it doesn't have a Qi Wireless
on the top I would have liked to have seen that sure we get the 100 watt type c Port that is
brilliant to have we get the three AC ports with the 800 watts very good again so all up if you are
looking for a model that is under a thousand US Dollars has a good power output and it's not too
large not too heavy not too bulky then take a look at this the river 2 Pro from ecoflow