Chris here with ecoflow's new Power Stream this is a micro inverter I also do have this which
is the Delta 2 max now this has two kilowatt hour capacity maximum output is 2 400 watts and they're
rigid 400 watt solar panels now the maximum output of it is 800 watts so it does have its limits here
and in this video I'll be running through it and I'll show you exactly how the powerstream
micro inverter Works a little on our Delta 2 Max and these solar panels so inside the box of our
power steering micro inverter you find a warranty card that's a 10 year warranty which is excellent
a quick start guide which goes over everything how to connect everything up set it up the application
safety instructions right there too and this here is our bracket so that's for the micro
inverter you've also got this metal brace that you can use instead and it does say there that
it's recommended use is without the battery and we do get some screws for mounting this bracket
for the micro inverter cables included there are a lot and they are super high quality cables they've
included little velcro straps here so this is our solar cable clearly labeled there for solar and
you can't accidentally plug this into the wrong port on the micro inverter anyway it's a typical
standard uh solar connectors right they're high quality ones so we've got two of them because we
have the two solar inputs so it's 400 watts on one another 400 on the other and that makes it
800 watts maximum with the solar input with this unit here now the plugs themselves I'm
really impressed with the design of them how solid these are so you can see the contacts are really
good we have this metal outside Shield to it and it Clips in so the way it Clips in is that you
can't can't actually get it off easily you can't just pull it out because you need to be able to
pull these clips outwards first before you remove the plugs from the micro inverter which I will
show you shortly now the way they are designed too that any bending or tension or stress put on this
is not going to be an issue these are Rock Solid cables that's the solar cable then we have our AC
out cable so this is the important one that you plug into your own home here and then it's going
to be supplying from the inverter going out here and putting the power into your network your grid
you could say in within your house there again really high quality this cable and you won't be
able to easily just remove that and then this one here goes from the powerstream micro inverter and
plugs into your Eco flow battery station there your battery bank and it's using a different
connector there's a standard connector that you'll find across a whole range of models from Eco flow
with their battery stations and again really good quality all of these plugs these are called the
Eco flow super flat mc4 cables and they've got the standard mc4 connectors but look at how flat this
cable is it's absolutely tiny so the idea is this will go under a door or through around a window
and you can then close it or close that door you don't have to drill hole so this is perfect for
people that live in an apartment or a flat that don't want to drill holes or maybe it's not your
apartment or your Flats you're renting so you can use this instead and getting around the solution
a problem of drilling which maybe your landlord does not want so this is the powerstream micro
inverter it's IP67 really good build quality to it so it's very solid it's a solid unit here it
will have thermal paste inside it you have the components pressed up against this metal build
so it's acting as just a big heatsink for it too now IP67 so there's going to be no problem this
being out in the dust and the weather being rained on will not be an issue and you'll see
here at the front of it we do have a status LED you will see that flashing away at the back of
it we've got four solid rubber feet there are the mounting points there for the bracket or the brace
and an earth contact point right there now the plugs the quality of these is very good so you
see they've got little caps on and it protects the components there inside now they are labeled okay
so what is what is right here at the top so it's clearly labeled and you can't accidentally put the
wrong plug in the wrong position anyway so this one here is the ACL this is our wireless antenna
right here so if they had that internal there'd be no signal string so that's why they've done
it they've made it external there and if you want to know all of the specs here of our power stream
then just hit pause you can have a look at all of those details then but the main takeaway here is
that it is 800 watts maximum that is our output from this that it'll feed into your own home grid
and then the Eco flow smart plugs you use this in conjunction with the power station with everything
really and these can be operated remotely through the app so you could be imagine at work and you
can turn remotely on and off you can set timers on and off too with the application and you can
even see it overload protection so you can set it at a thousand Watts right up to 2.5 kilowatts
ecoflow does have these 400 watt solar panels so the rigid solar panels here can produce what
I've seen maximum about 350 watts and total I've seen just over 700 watts and I'll show you how it
is all connected up here so the rigid 400 watt solar panels the powerstream micro inverter and
the Delta 2 max and just for the purposes of this video to make it a little bit easier for me I have
them set up here out in the garden so the Delta 2 max you would have this inside your apartment
you would then have the micro inverter very close by because that cable is not that long it's not
designed to be separated that far away from of course the battery Bank itself here the Delta 2
max now the build quality of this Eco flow rigid solar panels are 400 watt ones is very good and
they have of course your typical solar connector you don't have to use their panels you can supply
and Source your own panels use those they will work well you just don't want to go over that
800 watts that's important you can't really do that and I've got my assistant here Vera who's
coming along to help me as you can see hi there say hello to the world she's always interested
in what I'm up to and doing so we've got then the micro inverter that's on the top there so this is
our Power Stream So that is going to be handling the flow of energy so to be charging the battery
it'll be sending some of that uh back into the house the great thing about the setup is that you
can simply just disconnect it so you've got that plug there remove it and you can just remove the
whole micro inverter there the Power Stream and we have then our separate battery Bank you can
take with you if you need to go camping you've got some other sort of need for it emergency use then
you've got it there and we have that 2 400 watts output the back of the data 2 max here as we find
our AC output ports so these ones 2 400 as I just mentioned maximum there but with X boost on it can
take you up to 3100 but only for short periods it will allow you that surge there to be able to
just go over that exceeded limit so it's great for more powerful devices maybe some power tools hair
dryers and trying to boil water and things which I will be testing later on in the video here so
this is our 12 volts part on and off here uh DC side of things so three amps maximum there then
we do have the car cigarette lighter socket there too as well as you can see and here we've got our
X stream charge so this is ACN charging and it can fully charge really quick just 53 minutes to get
up to 80 percent there is a switch here for the fast charging mode or slow charging mode if you
happen to overload it there's overload protection and the reset button is right here and we have
our Solar inputs so 500 watts this one here 500 watts here so that is a thousand watt solar charge
maximum the data 2 max does have active cooling so there's some fans at the top here it's actually
quite quite in use this particular model here both charging and discharging it they say around 30
decibels too with it so it's using of course the lfp battery cells there so they're the highest
quality ones that these battery stations are using so after 3 000 Cycles the capacity of those
batteries will drop down to then 80 percent which is very good and the lifetime of them well they
say they're going to be good for 10 years even if you are using it daily the front of the unit here
we have our main power on and off button status LED it does make beep noises but you can disable
that via the application and an on and off here for the USB ports this DC side of things here does
have USB type c they are both power delivery ports up to 100 Watts so they can charge your laptops
really quickly and then the type A ports we've got four of those two are more slower charging USB
type A's and then fast charge which support Quick Charge three these are the two blue type A ports
the screen is very clear gives us all of that key information we want so you can see the input
wattage output wattage here percentage of our Delta to Max and the remaining time that it can
last at its current discharge rate which is 56 hours because I've got nothing connected up to
it here at the moment ecoflow has really slimmed this unit down because the capacity of it being
the two kilowatt hours yet it's the size of what I see of much smaller capacities so they claim that
this is about 30 smaller than the competition it is a heavy unit however because this is about 23
kilos so it's got a bit of bulk to it there's no wheels but the handles on it are very good
they're nice and strong and the build quality is excellent of the Delta 2 max so I'll go inside now
and I'll show you how all of this works the best way to explain it is through the application where
you do get a clear idea of the flow of energy how the battery is being charged what's been sent back
to the house and those smart plugs too now I do like the graphics they use the Simplicity of the
application but then it does have all the specific kind of information you want and you can get a lot
of stats out of it so I've got two of the smart plugs hooked up I have the Delta 2 Max and Power
Stream here so let's have a look at the Power Stream now on first glance it will tell you uh how
much energy you have generated so 2.14 kilowatts today so far your current generation so the solar
panels at almost 600 watts the best I've seen them do is 700 smart plugs currently using this other
load so this is my house I've got a fridge freezer unit that's on the lights here right now and an
air conditioning unit so it's not running all of that some of it's going to be from the Grid 2 as
well and a battery status there so it's slowly discharging a little bit now if you get out of
this or before I actually do that I just want to show you all of these settings because there's a
lot in here now your AC output demand I've said it to the maximum here the 800 watts I wanted
to test that and when you touch the top of the micro inverter it gets really hot which is normal
because it's handling a lot of current that's going through it but it's passively cooling itself
too as it does that so you can lower that down if you didn't want uh for example 800 watts you want
to save a little bit on your battery not even use the battery maybe just one it will be solar set it
to 320 now so you'll see this later on now you've got other options here this is one of the best
ones too prioritize the power supply so you can get it to have the solar panels feeding straight
into your house and your current consumption all right or if you need to charge or want to charge
the battery for nighttime use or you're going to take it out you Pro Touch prioritize sorry the
charging of the battery and so that is all really good but you can schedule it too so you can set
times for that there's a lot of options in here the discharge and charge levels of that battery
so if you want to completely drain it you can it has the lfp battery cells they're pretty much the
best for the type of storage and you've got four thousand Cycles before the capacity drops down to
70 as I mentioned in the intro there you can set the charge level 2 for it now I've set my current
kilowatt hour rate here in Spain we're out at the moment I think it's about 24 cents per kilowatt
hour so that's what I'm using to calculate what kind of savings I'm getting firmware updates
had some of them already network settings it's pretty self-explanatory there so it's a lot of
options but my favorite screen is not this one but space when you get here you get the overview
you can see that I've saved Now 52 cents just not a lot uh the power used today there and
power generated and consumption right now this is live stats connected up wirelessly now if you tap
here this is my favorite screen I really love the way it represents everything you can see the flow
of our energy here so right now I have the solar panels going into the inverter they are then going
into other loads of my house and the smart plugs so one of them which is my tower PC at the moment
113 Watts power grid nothing we've got some of the energies going back into charging up the battery a
little and if I was to set the load from 320 Watts which I currently have a phone Chris at 800 then
it'll be the other way around some of the battery would then be helping boost that up to get that
800 watts total now you can go through all your stats all of your energy consumed generated from
day to week to month to year a lot of information in here really good so this is what you need
with a setup like this with a micro inverter anyway and finally I'll show you the uh plugs
here so I've got the smart plug here one of them set to the biggest consumer of the household uh
for us all on electric is our water boiler okay so this is using a lot of power at the moment
I don't have it on but you can manually turn it on and off you can set it on a timer so I could
have this only come on uh during the day when we're generating energy from the Sunshine from
the solar panels from ecoflow you can turn it off have it delayed off there there's firmware
updates and there's also this too as well overload protection very good so getting out of that I'll
just show you the last one which is my tower PC same thing there I can see it's currently
using 110 Watts it'll give me the stats of all of this which is great there so there's
plenty in here a lot of information and I just love how it shows the flow of where the power
is going what you're generating what you're consuming and you're using and this is great
now if you're wondering if this will be able to power your whole house I did a little test
I turned off the power at the switchboard and I tried to get this unit here to run at least just
the lights and some low powered items in the house but nothing happened at all so it's not going to
be a solution for blackouts the battery Bank itself is if you connect up to it directly but
it won't be able to run your lights your house and your household appliances at 800 watts this is the
limitation of this unit here so it's not going to be able to run for example your hot water cylinder
your hot water heater in our household it can't do that because that's about 1.4 kilowatts this
is only 800 watts and those domestic items your appliances for example your ovens stove tops all
those sort of things it's not going to be able to power those at all but what it can do is take away
some of the load from those items here because it's feeding that power into your house there so
that's really good it's going to cut down a little bit on your power bills it's not a completely
standalone solution that you'd just be able to run that now for people that maybe have a RV set up
that you normally would be powering you might be able to plug this into it and you probably
have a sufficient power there with the 800 watts depending again on on what you're using so it does
have its limitations but it is a really good setup and I like the application the way you can see the
flow of energy is very handy or the information you do get and the smart plugs too you can then
control those remotely you can see what kind of wattage they're using and they even do have the
overload protection and then the Delta II Max well this is a very good portable battery station that
has a lot of power using the lfp battery cells so that means it's good for around 10 years the 3000
Cycles as mentioned it will only then drop down to 80 the capacity of those batteries so this
unit here is two very powerful the 2400 Watts so thank you so much for watching this video here on
the powerstream micro inverter the Delta 2 Max and the rigid 400 watt panels here from eco mode hello