EcoFlows $3,000 Solar Tracker - What Were They Thinking?

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0:00 - Intro
1:06 - Overview
3:36 - Testing
7:08 - Some Issues...

When it comes to Solar Trackers, there is a ton of options out there.. you Can build a DIY Solar Tracker for pretty cheap - or you can pay over $3,000 for the EcoFlow Tracker. Is it really worth paying for though? Thats what we wanted to find out!

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[jjman]

Imagine how much more power you can generate from $3400 worth or bifacial solar panels.

[justinfowler]

$3, 400 dollars is insane. That kind of money would buy a bunch more mounts and panels that would more than negate the minimal benefits of solar tracking. 👎

[eugenes]

Even if you absolutely need the early/late power, you could just buy 2 more panels and face them towards sunrise/sunset.

[weeksy]

I’m convinced EcoFlow’s entire customer base is fictitious rich outdoors types which marketers all simultaneously imagined

[TheCornucopiaProject-bdjk]

For that price, I can get many more solar panels. But I have to give EcoFlow credit for trying to cover the entire segment.

[USA-GreedyMenOfNoIntegrity]

If you’ve tested a lot of panels, you will find that laying the solar panel flat does better in cloudy winter weather. that’s one reason it lays flat.

[mwolrich]

what makes more sense is a single axis tracker, which is far simpler mechanicly (it just adjusts the “tilt angle” of the panels to try and keep them at 90 degrees to the sun), that is a simply hydraulic cylinder that can move like 10 panels up & down and costs far less. with all of that said, panels are so inexpensive now, just buy more panels, trackers no longer make financial sense

[dalel]

I'd like to see you review the Eco worthy solar tracker. It looks legit and it's way cheaper.

[cptbill]

Nice honest review . I am sick and tired of people praising every ecoflow product.

[Rostol]

with $3000 you buy 16 x 415w bifacial panels. you could buy 4 panels and put them in an arc covering the solar motion thru the sky, like aim one for the best 9 am sun, aim the other for midday, the other at 15hs, and 18hs (adjust the times and angles to your latitude and time of year)
you would get a LOT more energy for ~800

[nikscha]

The tracker "laying down" is probably the best thing to do when there's cloud cover.

[Moes_Prep_and_Tech]

Can you do the EcoWorthy Version of this? Its like 400 bucks and can hold a lot more solar. the only negative i can see is it looks a little complicated to assemble

[smirkingdevil]

It is interesting that you cannot use the app to input your GPS location, date and time, and have the tracker just track the Sun.

[fgregerfeaxcwfeffece]

Trackers made sense when panels where expensive. But now panels are so cheap it is a lot cheaper to just hang panels everywhere in any direction. So gz they made product for the past.

[bloepje]

the eco worthy dual axis trackers (it just tilts 2 directions, it doesn't turn) costs around 500 euro. One of the reviewers added 4 x 430W panels on it. I have 4 430W panels (trina bifacials) just on the ground and they ocassionally do 2.3kW..
I am really thinking about buying it, because left or right, I need to set up my solar panels more permanently... Like 3x4 to get through the winter in an off-grid situation.

[Mr_Nobody_CA]

Don’t worry. It will be 60% off during Thanksgiving sales

[timm]

Genius analysis and very fair comparison. I also don't know why it would use an active tracking system, prone to error and power waste, rather than inputing local time and GPS coordinates. Even an approximately accurate, deterministic sky tracker would be significantly better without being prone to dead time. It only need be accurate to, say, 5 degrees to be a boost over a static array.

Edit to add: If this syncs with a phone, the user doesn't even have to put in anything. It can check location and time during setup.

[michaelmartin]

This first came out years ago and was sold out for ages. As somebody said at the time, it made sense when panels were crazy expensive, but as the price has fallen through the floor recently, just make up for a shortfall by buying more. Unless, of course, you have super-limited space.

[colinkeizer]

Wow. That was the most valuable ten minutes of listening in my morning. Thanks!

[SonnyDarvishzadeh]

That's the price to cover a whole house in Germany! 36 x 435W Bifacial (57€/Modul) - 200€ delivery. With the other 1, 000€, I'll buy the MPPT, inverter, etc. All I need to do is to add 2 maybe 4 more panels for about 150-250 euros to cover the losses.