INSANE Test Results: EcoWorthy 280Ah LFP Battery

The EcoWorthy 280Ah LiFePO4 deep cycle battery performs better than expected in a complete battery capacity rundown test test.

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[philmorrissette]

I have 2 of those, wired in Parallel at my Off-Grid cabin. They are awesome for the price.

[doughanawalt]

Glad to hear this. I have two of these, this is better than I was expecting for the price.

[hedleypepper]

Please please please an lfp battery should be compared to two lead acid batteries as lead acid can typically only be discharged to 50%

The lfp battery will typically weigh 1/3 of equally rated lead acid but as it can be discharged 100% it's actually 1/6 the weight of a comparable usable capacity lead acid.

Then typically 8 x the no of cycles in use able life to 80% capacity.

8 x 6 = 48
That's 48 x the lifetime capacity

[ronpearson]

It does not have low temp protection. They do say it can charge to -5C. I bought this battery this year and am use a Victron Smart Battery Sensor with my Victron chargers to prevent low temp charging.

[trevorbickle]

There’s a 24 V 280 W hour on Amazon and it has heating and its Bluetooth BMS. I’m thinking about getting that one and it has 7 kW. I thought that was pretty good amount. The name is HRX new energy. They seem like not a super big company, but they seem pretty good and they have a five-year warranty.

[drewa]

The likelihood of getting a retail unit with the level of capacity your unit has is highly unlikely. The sad part is usually companies like to send out “golden samples” to reviewers to make products seem better than they are because they know your going to test the capacity. I’ve read quite a few reviews saying their units of this battery tested quite a bit lower than advertised, and then they had to arm wrestle with eco worthy to get it replaced. Let’s hope that’s not the case most of the time but I’m always Leary when reviews say “the company sent this too me for free”

[bcboncs]

Newbie here. Ppl complaining about no low temp cutoff - could you store these inside a foam cupboard and is there any risk of high temp issues? Any built in management of high temp?

[Daraghfly]

Thanks for the interesting video, but as the company them selves sent you the battery i would not trust the capacity test as they may have used slightly higher capacity cells. I have see this happening before. I would tend to trust products that people got them selves and not paid or donated products. I have these batteries myself for home use and are working great so far. Thank you again.

[davidbreeden]

There are maybe some serious short comings with this battery, but despite all that, connected to a charge controler with temp protection and. My main issue I'd ballance seems to be off so over time it could get worse, but at best it means a lower capacity.... I messaged seller, eco worthy and no reply. So I think only thing to do is to try to notify possible buyers of the imbalance issue. Still might not be a bad deal, but also bough vater batter at slightly higher... maybe less than $.01 per watt balancing ses much better, also case, breaker, screen and so on.... these batteries are maybe totally different use wise, but for little more so far I see the vater server rack is much better... this is of course 48 vs 12v systems so ecowise is entry for people like me who are thinking home systems and so on... I'd say skip this and go directly 48v. If 12v system building this has been the best deal per watt hr I could find. At about $420 per 280 battery. Balancing appears to be an issue though. Want to see a total tear down and can't find one as to date.

[Jhnoo]

Thank you for the test.
Normally you would discharge a battery at 0.2C or a 5 h discharge.
For this battery it would be 56 A continuous.

[davidbreeden]

Nice video. I bought a few of these during their last ebay sale. Have a couple projects for these. For the price it couldn't be beat at the time. So expectations probably should be in line. Non of myn charged to the same voltage so connecting in seried for 48v i may lose some capacity

[lowermichiganadventures]

Now what I would like to see you do is take that battery and build it to your own homemade solar generator and how does that compare to your Eco flow Delta two max as for putting out power because by far it’s a considerably bigger battery I guess my question would be with the right and burger. Would that make for a crazy power station asking for a friend that really doesn’t understand the power stations as good as you.

[ewitte]

My delta2 max with extra battery is about 100lbs for 4096Wh. 60lbs for 3.5KWh is not bad.

[abarcza]

Hey great video of my man. Are you sure it has under temperature protection for charging? I was looking at the specs and thinking about buying this and it seems like it did not. Wonder if you tested that?

[DimebagDarrenLowe]

I'm about to watch this, but I have one of these too, so it will be interesting what buddy thinks., i have a Xantrex 1800HF for battery charging and power inversion.

[lowermichiganadventures]

4:12 so that battery right there would put out more than the Eco flow Delta max ??’ if this is correct and I’m not misunderstanding you we would like to see you build a power station with this battery and do a comparison. I think it would be a unique video Let me know what you think.

[bumpmodeiitch]

Bust that thing open son, see what BMS is in there. Build quality? Does high temp cutoff work?

[laderrickbrown]

Will this work for a 4k watt boat audio sytem?

[jjz]

Do you get to keep the battery? I see them going for $500-$1200 so ive been waiting to buy them until the prices stabilize, unless EcoWorthy just lies about its MSRP

[chrisb]

I do not see anywhere that says it has low temp charge cut off.