I went ahead and bought it based off reviews like this one and tested it on several 90-100 (f) degree days in Colorado before taking it to Burning Man. We were attempting to cool our camper van and I figured I'd give this a shot. I hate to say it, but even with the intake vent inside and a head start with the van AC, it had next to no meaningful cooling power. Yes, the air coming out of the vent was cool, but it did nothing to cool the vehicle. This is a well insulated van with full thermal window coverings. Disappointed that I am back to square one with two weeks to go before we need it most!
I rented a Toyota Prius Prime last week in Colorado just for the reason that it has climate control and it's AC and Heater . Yes it was above 100F but the Prius was able to keep me cool all day and at night I used it to bring in the cool air with minimal usage of the battery ( I used 2/3 of the fully charged battery). I plan to use a Toyota hybrid van or SUV next time, it was very convenient because the Prime can be charged via AC outlet or via it's own motor and the battery and the HVAC is all integrated.
I used my Wave2 for heating one room at a time last winter. It’s nice that it’s portable. Now I’m using it to cool my living room. It’s been over 100 degrees lately here in Eastern WA. Today the forecast is sunny and 99 but was 107 the last 2 days. I set my home HVAC on 76. Home AC doesn’t come on until 3 or 4 pm. I’m also using a little portable swamp cooler in my electronics room. I only exhaust the wave2 hot air out the window so just one tube going out. My only complaint is the external drain must be on all the time. Directions say if humidity is below 70% you don’t need external drain. Humidity here averages 25-40% and I always need the external drain on or the tank fills up and I get a warning to drain it.
The intake and exhaust is best routed outside the controlled space. The back outlet will expel the temperature difference you are trying to control for. Is if you are trying to cool. The air coming out the back top vent will be the heat you are trying to remove from the space. Please use as directed in the user manual for best results.
The biggest problem with all of these type of cooling units is that if you are off grid it will be difficult to recharge the batteries day after day. Solar would have to be extremely large and you would have to have good sun all day. A gas generator would work but when you are in nature who wants to do that.
Not true unless it’s a cloudy day. Mine works fine on solar power. When the fan is on high it uses less than 400 watts. Hooking up 500 watts of solar and it will charge up to 400 watts.
I've been using the Wave 2 as supplemental heating and air conditioning in my living room. I bought it having a pretty good idea of its limitations. Learning the quirks and how to improve its performance has been a journey. Running the Wave 2 completely of of solar with the help of the Delta 2 Max has made it a worthwhile gamble. When I clicked the buy button I was fully prepared to lose. I have been using it effectively from 21 to 104 degrees F. My only regret is buying the add on battery. Which is now only a 3 inch riser that helps the Wave 2 drain better from my setup 😉 😜 Here in the wild weather swings of Lubbock, Texas I use it 365 days a year. Over time it has become less finicky and actually improved in performance as the mechanical parts went through their break in period. Being the first of its kind it truly is amazing 👏
@@arturopadron6666 most people that boondock don’t like to use generators. Large battery banks combined with these new DC chargers that can charge at 500-800 watts from your cars alternator/battery have peaked my interest. I am the type of traveler that likes to drive to a new location every day sometimes needing heat or cooling in my teardrop camper at night. I would be investing in a Wave 2 system if I hadn’t just installed a Propex heater.
@@arturopadron6666 it’s smart to have several sources of power if possible. I have 3 gas generators and lithium battery storage plus several solar power stations and 4 PV solar power arrays. If I had a creek or steam on my property I’d also have hydro power from flowing water. There’s a video on RU-vid and the guy built a water hydro power system using a old washing machine and car alternator. It’s amazing how much power that simple and cheap setup has produced over the years.
We have this unit from the very beginning when it was released. I have never used it in a car, always in house in a room plugged to the wall. At first last year it was in a small kid's room and now it is in the larger bedroom and honestly - color me impressed. Temperatures here are almost 40°C during day and around 25°C in night and even on lowest eco setting (23°C and one third of the fan power) it does considerably cool the room. I have it combined with window insulation around the exhausts and so far I am very very very happy with it. Relatively quiet, adjusting cooling progressively (instead of on/off cycles which suck) and the heat is not only bearable, but in the room it is comfortable. I am not a fan of EcoFlow (I have their River Mini Pro and it is a really awful unit), but this AC is perfect for me. Just to share something positive, because most of the comments here are not and I feel like it does not deserve so much backlash.
While the EF Wave 2 is the first portable mini-split solution, it is very expensive for what it can do and the proprietary nature of its power source makes it a non-sequitur for many buyers. For the same price as the Wave 2 you could get a much more capable mini-split system. For the combined price of the Wave 2 and enough power to run it off power stations and/or external batteries, you can set up that same mini-split, battery and inverter, but all of that is for stationary situations. The "portable" aspect of the Wave 2 is the real selling point. Even there, you can find other solutions, but none that are as easy to use.
TL;DR It is a solid product that does a good job of cooling or heating a single room until the source temperature hits specific "breakover" points while a charge lasts. It is flexible to setup, but there are a couple gotcha's when using solar charging, and you have to handle moisture output.
A year later I can say it works well, if you wait to buy it when they offer promo it’s worth it. My biggest thing is the power consumption. Cons the two large vents but it’s an AC unit so it’s has to have it 😅
2:06 This is just not how an heatpump works. If you mean to say that i fails to work at too low outdoor tempratures you are correct (the unit is not made for that), however, having the intake inside defeats the entire point of an heatpump..
@@NRYT2360a heat pump doesn't heat the air like a conventional heater. It 'pumps' heat as per the name. For heating you should have external ambient air intake and cooled air exhaust ducts going to outside the space you wish to heat. Otherwise all you have is an expensive fan with sub 800w heater
If you are pulling from the air in Your space then air out the front might feel warmer but you are not adding heat youlr are just focusing the heat already in the space
I just bought one without doing too much research, still waiting for the add-on battery so it's pretty much useless without that. My biggest thought in opening up and looking at a components, they spent a ton of time getting things designed to look very nice but they didn't spend a lot of time thinking about how the thing would actually be used. In my mind a portable AC would be best if it was built like a yeti cooler, flat, durable surfaces that are not easily damaged. It would also greatly benefit from the wiring being commonly made connectors instead of everything being proprietary I have two vehicles I want to use this with but it only came with one alternator charging kit, to get a second set of wires to be able to move the alternator charging kit from vehicle to vehicle I'm sure will probably be over $100 Seems like they could have just adapted a winch wiring kit. Everything is just designed like it's supposed to be used in an office, not outdoors in a campground.
That's true! I wanted to share that although it is a groundbreaking one of a kind HVAC system, it does have some limitations that most others don't really share.
mean while out side of usa.. thye rest of the world are running mini split systems .. and past few years the rv community are starting to use the mini split with great solar results.. a dual mini split is how i think im going with my boat in future..
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Thanks for the review! I recently got an old VW Transporter Multivan, it's a small van, and was thinking to get one of those. But do you think they will release a Wave 3 this year? Space is limited in the van, and maybe 3rd generation could be smaller than this (hopefully).
Im confused you said keep the front 3 inside, but the top is the exhaust and the read is an intake. Do you mean keep the front 2 inside and the rear, but put the exhaust (top) out the window?
Thanks for the awesome review. You said that you found the heating works better without venting the air outlet outside. Does the same hold true when using cooling? E.g does the cooling work best when just the hot air is vented outside and it uses air from inside the tent from both air inlets?
I’m currently in a tent and will set up the system tomorrow to test it out. But, overall this is a point cooling/heating system. So, I expect similar results. Look for the video in the next few weeks.
I have yet to figure out how something that pulls 550 watts can last all night long with juice left over from a approximately 3000 watt hours of combined battery? Seems to me like it would only run around 6 hours.......
I wish ecoflow had made a shroud for hoses on the FRONT lower return for AC mode so to keep the unit outside, and not have to cool outside hot air. Which makes me wonder, all this does it reverse direction, so I wonder if this could be put in max heat mode, left outside, but used it in the opposite direction with the two rear hoses to accomplish this?
Can you test this by not using the battery on the wave 2 and plugging in DC to DC on the Delta Max 2? That's what I was looking at plus maybe a 400 w panel
I tried both ways, and the difference felt negligible to me. But, I would like to get an insulated tent and try it to see if there is a noticeable difference. Unfortunately, I haven’t experimented with the AC in a well insulated room to get the full effect.
In a van if you use only 1 tube the ambient temp will never fall. The issue is that single hose ac configurations create negative pressure on the space and suck hot air from the outside in.
I hooked mine up with only the exhaust tube from day one. It works fine. I used it for heating last winter and now I’ve been running it all day everyday during these 100 degrees days of summer. It keeps my living room cool. My house AC set at 75 doesn’t come on until 3 or 4 pm.
Can you run this directly off from a 120v outlet without any battery? I plan on getting this to heat and cool the vault of the Cybertruck and it has 120v and 240v outlets in the bed where i'll be sleeping.
Why sucking in super cold air from outside instead of letting the thing circulate the warmer air of the room? That doesn't cause any vacuum and I'm pretty sure it will perform well.
@@Leberkasbepi Shit, you’re right. What about installing only one pipe to channel out the cold air, and let the Wave 2 take the air from the room? Having a little vacuum still sounds better than channeling winter cold into a heating device.
Honestly, this is a huge overpriced; more trouble than it worth hunk of junk. A few of my friends brought it and threw them out because of all the hoses and changes you have to make. I mean, who want to babysit all this crap. I have a 6,000 btu air conditioner with one hose. I simply built an a 10,000 amp hour battery storage system with solar and run it all day and night. I have heat also with the air conditioner so there are so many great options. The wave 2 with the battery is well over $1,300; my air conditioner was $358 out the door. I have using it for over 10 years without issue.
If you’ve been using it for 10 years it definitely burns a lot of power and weighs more than this. It’s 2 hoses, intake and exhaust. With a third to direct cold air if you want. It’s not very complicated if you take the time. The reason for 2 hoses as opposed to one is because it’s significantly more efficient than one hose. Instead of having hot and cold air traveling through one hose they each have one to travel through. It’s not for everybody but for ppl who want a stand-alone system you can bring almost anywhere without needing to haul a battery and all this is one of the only options. It’s pricey but you can either burn 1000w or 300w just depends how much you wanna spend
True, but I'm looking at this because I have awning windows that exceed the length of vent hoses in height. Its either get a Whyther unit but the parts are unavailable, void the warranty (probably on after market extensions, or have a 60-70+ pound unit at least two feet off the floor. None of these seem realistic. Niche solutions trigger niche prices.
🫣 You start off Bad Mouthing other RU-vidrs who have Reviewed this... That is an Arrogant and a Horrible thing to do. I disagree with your slander of other RU-vidrs reviews on this A/C Heating Unit. The Ecoflow Wave 2 is Unique it is one of a Kind. It is a 5,000 BTU Heat Pump. It does the same thing as a mini split A/C. Nothing else is this size and can do what this does. It is extremely Energy Efficient. If you use this in a room ( An insulated space.) no larger than 160 SQ Feet it will do an amazing job. It is Not going to use more than 400 Watts. On Average it will use 300 Watts.
Bruh all of what you just said is the complete opposite of factual. Most (factual) RU-vidrs who review these companies have gotten discounts or some sort of perks which for scientific purposes is 100% bias. There are tons (factual) of RU-vidrs who 1. Have never even used these appliances but review them 2. Have zero concept of how to experiment, any concept of how hvac works, or how this appliance genre can be used and not used. I just debunked everything you had to offer without trying. If you don’t have the feeling of standing fully corrected I’ll give you one last piece of factual information………..the Ecoflow wave or wave 2 could not possibly cool off 160sq ft room unless you were running it in the middle of a northern winter. The wave 2 is not the same as a 5,000btu window shaker by far. So we have an individual who ran their mouth with zero truth behind it who then goes and shouts out the most false information possible to prove herself wrong. If you wanted attention just ask we could’ve had a great conversation about the weather or something you know about.