How Long Will The EcoFlow Power Station Run My Furnace? | Power Outage Emergency Heat

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[pepstein]

Just a minor point about Watts vs Watt-hours:

Your Ecoflow battery stores about 1000 Watt-hours of energy. Watt-hours, not Watts.

Watts: On average, over the 8 hours this battery powered your furnace, it must have been drawing about 125 Watts, but of course it would be much less than that when the furnace is idle, and more when the furnace is producing heat, as it has to power the fan.


Important implications:
1. To get the longest run time from your battery, turn down the thermostat
2. Run times will depend on the weather
3. Run time will depend on how well the house is insulated and how drafty it is

[bobkantor]

Another feature of the EcoFlow Delta's is that they will recharge to about 80% in about one hour when plugged into a wall outlet, generator, or inverter hooked up to a car alternator. I'd prefer to run my generator for an hour, two or three times a day, to recharge my EcoFlow than to run it hour after hour and overnight.

[ds]

I really like learning about how to keep the furnace going when the power goes out, which happens here. Thanks.

[outdoorzee]

It's good that the power bank will run the furnace for 10 hours, but one must remember that with just a 160 watt solar panel, and in the winter, it will take several days of good sunshine, to recharge your power bank back up. So that unit is really only good for a 10-hour emergency.

[soctnights]

I have my heating oil fired boiler setup in a similar fashion. I run the Ecoflows (2) at night because their quiet and startup my dual fuel generator during the day if grid power is still down. If a winter storm is forecast I plug the EcoFlow into the grid power and the boiler into the EcoFlow and turn it on. Power is passed thru the power station but if the grid goes down the EcoFlow battery power takes over. I don't like waking up to a cold house.

[christophersswhite]

Good review DIY guy 🤘🏼 respect from an Ontario HVAC guy

[davesmith]

The life of the EcoFlow will depend on the size of furnace and temp outsize. Your furnace could be a 80% or 90% with a one stage or two stage. Your 90% may have a condensation pump. When you turn of the furnace it is better let it cool down with the blower motor because over time a quick turnoff could damage your heat exchangers. The heat exchangers parts maybe covered on warranty but the labor to change them is expensive.

[davey]

One of the features I like in that Delta 2 is the 500W maximum solar input. It won't take that long to charge it using my solar panels.

[uhjyuff]

Hype! these types of tests are amazing! Well done.

[davidwilliford]

Something you must remember about ecoflow and similar rechargeable batteries is that your ambient room/operating temperature will greatly affect the battery discharge due to the inordinate amount of energy the battery expends on its internal cooling fans!

I ran 3 tests of an ecoflow 1280 wh batteries at ambient 70 degree F room temp., powering a small 35 watt fruit dehydrator. Simple math suggests that, at even 1200 actual watt hours, a batterry should easily power the 35wh device for the 12-15 hours required to dehydrate fruit. In fact at 80degree fahrenheit ambient temperature (and no external power source such as solar or 120v) in three tests the battery barely lasted 4 hours because it consumed 35 wh when only the dehydrater was running, but the batterry fan constantly cycled and when it kicked on battery consumption consistently jumped to 610 wh.

Ran this experiment a half dozen times with 2 different Deltas, results were within about 3 percent variance; nice little inverter package, but if the sun isn’t shining, then even at ambient 70f temps it’s internal fan energy draw renders it practically useless, even when only drawing a steady 35 watts over a half dozen hours. It does make a handsome doorstop, and if you have a sunny cloudless day and a few hundred watts of solar power panels properly aligned it can be useful, just not so much on a long 6:13 dark night:-)

[nightskylights]

If it's an emergency, then there's no need to heat or cool the entire house. Just one room is enough. In the winter, couple of space heaters, one for the room, and one to put near any sinks that back to outside, to keep the pipes from freezing. And the summer, just one small portable AC or fan. That's all you need to heat or cool just one room. Then with the power station and the solar panels you will never be out of power, or at least it will last you days, not hours.

[curtchase]

Nice setup for an emergency. This is a good setup for people that are electrically challenged. Simple to implement. Your electrical interconnect is just fine, but if it were me, I'd simply use a standard 3-way wall switch to route the furnace to grid or alternate source. I use them a lot for my solar projects here. When properly wired, just flip the switch! It only switches the HOT (black) wire. The neutral (white) is still tied to both grid and backup sources! Your setup with the plug may isolate both HOT and neutral wires.

[budmartin]

Great video. @8:09 the batteries are not actually at 0% which means no charge left otherwise the display will not be on, they actually drain the battery down to about 5% SOC (State of Charge) to have some buffer.

[theapplguy]

I remember in your PREVIOUS Video- the VTOMAN Power Station gave you 14 Hours of Runtime & the EcoFlow only gave you 10 Hours!
I took advantage of the $650 off coupon you linked when I purchased the VTOMAN 1000 and the TWO-100 watt Solar Panels all for $1150!, thanks Dave!

[onedilation]

This is one pretty awesome power station since it has a 5 year warranty that goes with it. My old power station only had a year of warranty then it went kaput.

[EverydayHomeRepairs]

Pretty Handy! I am a fan and have a bit smaller unit at home as well. I need to get those solar panels 👊

[EngineNoise]

Wow this is pretty cool that it can run for this long. Normally I would use a generator but this is nice for over night so you can shut it off

[Campr]

Nice video. Just picked up the EZ Generator switch from your other video and I already had the EcoFlow Delta2 which I use in my campervan. I never thought of using the power station to supply power to my furnace. Thanks!

[djl]

Some furnaces will not operate with a floating neutral, which most small generators have. Ground neutral plugs are available for your generator but I have not tried that yet.

[spoonyfart]

I’m just glad you didn’t call it a “solar generator.”