you're here because you've narrowed down your search for a portable solar generator between
the BLUETTI EB 55 and the ecoflow River Pro the question is which is the better unit let's find
out hello I'm Wanderer001 and this is my comparison or versus video for the BLUETTI
and ecoflow portable solar generators here I do have individual full reviews up there in
the corner if you're looking for a deep dive into the full review of either of these this
is more of a quick hit comparison video to help you make an informed decision so let's actually
start with one of the biggest things which is battery size they will list this as Watt hours
the BLUETTI over here has a watt hour of 537 the ecoflow has a watt hour battery of 720. so this is
actually the larger battery however we then look at output so that's how much wattage you can get
out of each individual unit starting again on the left with our BLUETTI this has a maximum of 700
Watts out with a surge of up to 1400 Watts now our Eco flow right here has a maximum output of
600 watts with a maximum of 1800 surge using X boost which is an interesting feature that most
ecoflow portable solar generators have in that it will lower the voltage so that you can get
more wattage out now the only issue with this is if you're using something like a hair dryer
or a heat gun you're going to notice an audible change using X boost because that lower wattage
means that the tool is not actually performing at a hundred percent as you can hear here
and he gone with X boost so low which was no problem before but now
you can see I can do the high now without it tripping even with that feature really
have to give it to the BLUETTI for having the more output without having a fancy trick next thing is
well what type of battery do you have what is the battery makeup or chemical makeup of the battery
BLUETTI has been known for using their lipo 4 which has the distinct advantage of more charge
cycles meaning you can charge this battery 2500 times before you'll notice any battery
degradation to 80 percent our River Pro here uses a more commonly found lithium ion battery
which only has 800 Cycles before you'll start seeing battery degradation to 80 percent so again
in this particular instance your BLUETTI has an advantage over ecoflow next let's talk about Form
and Function both of these batteries sit at about 16 and a half to 16.8 pounds however ever once you
start including some of the other peripherals that you'll need to operate them things get a
little heavy really quick meaning the power brick that you'll need to charge the BLUETTI with adds
an extra five pounds cable that you need for charging the ecoflow here barely adds any weight
talking about those Chargers we're going to dovetail into two things one is noise
and noise meaning fan noise each of these units has fans on the side of it allowing it
to cool with the ecoflow with the ecoflow you have a variable speed controller for the fan
and you can set it for I'd prefer quiet or I'd prefer maximum cooling BLUETTI you don't have
that option it's Max fans all the time and the chunky power brick that comes with it also has
a fan that never turns itself off in a quiet room you will noticeably hear them as you can see here
all right foreign
but with that extra fan noise do you get extra charging capacity meaning how quickly can I
charge the units well here's the thing BLUETTI here takes three hours to fully charge and
this is the one that has these smaller internal battery our ecoflow here takes one hour to get
to 80 percent and roughly two to maximally charge because this using a single cable has the ability
to fast charge the unit so if you're looking for something that can be charged in a short amount of
time this is definitely going to give the win to the ecoflow here and that is because the Eco flow
can have a maximum WAP hole from your wall of up to 660 watts BLUETTI only 200. now these are both
solar generators so you can plug a standard solar panel into them both of the inputs on these are
200 Watts Max pulling from solar so they're kind of tied there BLUETTI does have a trick where you
can both solar charge and charge from your wall at the same time giving it an advantage over the
Eco flow but if you're getting this you're either in my opinion going to be solely charging it from
the wall to speed charge it or you're going to be using it outside to pull down solar which in that
case they're tied for solar and this one wins when utilizing it just for electrical zooming
in a little closer well obviously we're going to talk about displays because that's important the
information that you get from these will let you know exactly what you have going on over here on
the left you have the BLUETTI and what that's going to show you is right here this is a giant
battery cell that normally has 20 percent ticks and that little red icon there means I am almost
dead I need to charge this however there's still charge left in this but I have no idea
how much because this only breaks it down into 20 increments as you could see one of the things that
I did not like about charging this was when I got up to the top I did not know if it was actually
done charging well I did find out that the giant power brick that comes with theBLUETTI does turn
green there's a little red light on it that turns green when this is fully charged the other things
that you get with this you have your input wattage and your output wattage so that's kind of standard
I like seeing what I'm pulling and what I'm putting into the unit over here on the ecoflow not
only do we have a battery percentage we have input wattage we have output wattage and then you've
got this large number right here as well as this little circular icon around your percentage well
the circular icon again is a visual representation of how much battery is left in the unit over here
this 99 hours this is actually going to give you a live runtime for whatever you have plugged into
this so if you plug a computer into this you're going to know exactly how many hours you could
run that particular item for over here at Lou Eddie you don't get that feature both of them
do support pass-through charging so you will be able to have input going into the device to charge
it and then output power whatever device you're trying to use the actual solar generator for next
we're going to cover Form and Function and some unique features of each battery uh one thing I'd
like to point out the bright white light on the button for the ecoflow is easy to see and you
have a solid button press over here on the BLUETTI it's very light green hard to see outside and the
buttons tend to be very jiggly also screen times out on this one you can actually set your actual
timeout for this particular one and part of that is because as Eco flow has a companion app that
you can have on your smartphone to control and make changes to how this functions so that is
a very unique feature that ecoflow has so not only can I make changes to the display it also
gets firmer updates so in the future if there's something that ecoflow thinks they could do better
with this whether that's optimal fan speeds for temperature or hey maybe if I tweak this a little
bit you'll discharge a little slower and get to keep more of your battery that's all done through
the application and firmware updates that only ecoflow has BLUETTI once you have it you have it
that's it another unique feature of the ecoflow is an expandable battery so you can pretty much
pick up something the same size as this plug it in and you will double the capacity of your ecoflow
battery now that is sold separately but is again A distinct feature of the ecoflow River Pro compared
to the BLUETTI eb-55 that is not to say that the eb-55 does not have its own unique features one
being the lay flat handle that is definitely something that you're going to notice this is
a solid plastic piece that while sturdy to help pick up and move around you're not going to really
be able to pack this in as nicely as you would with this which has the lay flat handle not only
that if I tilt the eb-55 forward you're going to notice right up there that is a wireless charging
pad built into the top of that that is a very unique feature in my opinion and realistically
if ecoflow moved the handle there's a lot of space that they could have done something similar but
they did not the last bit that I'm going to talk about is the placement of the light and I know
that seems like a very trivial thing however the way way that ecoflows are designed all of
your information is on the front here you do have your charging port and outlets on the side of it
but everything else is in the front including your LED light so if you're trying to use this
you got to flip it around in order for the light not to shine in your face however on
the eb-55 the light is located on the back so to me that's actually a pretty good design idea so
that it's not shining in your face the last thing and this is actually the last thing that I want to
point out is number of actual usable ports so over here on the eb-55 you have four electrical outlets
only two of which have a false grounding on the ecoflow you have only three but each of them has
the false grounding coming over to our USB style you have one USBC and then four usb-a over here
you have three usba and only one USBC you get more ports on the eb-55 than you do with the
ecoflow River Pro question is how usable are they because like I said you only get two with
the false grounding so now that we've covered the major differences in a comparison between the two
final thoughts which one is the right one for you I am not going to give a cop-out answer saying
it's up to you if I were to do this all over again and could only purchase one because I do have both
if I could only purchase one again I would go with the ecoflow River Pro again because this
is a top-in-class display it has the expandability yes it's lithium ions I'm not going to get as many
cycles charging it as I would the eb-55 but the display the expandability and the app the app that
can constantly make it better to me make it the superior portable solar generator especially if
you're in a grid down situation and you need to know exactly how much time you have left on the
device you have plugged into it that makes this invaluable realistically I kind of relegated this
one to I'll throw it outside charge it up with my solar panel and then I charge my my phone my
camera batteries all that off of this but when I need to know how much time I have left in a power
outage I use this one hopefully that has helped you make some sort of decision as to which one
is the right choice for you again in the corner there if you have any questions I have in-depth
reviews of both of these so you should go check those out as well with that being said I have
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