You guys sure do find easter eggs and creative ways to exploit them. First, power dumping and now the resume power feature. Keep grinding there is bound to be more.
I'm glad I watched the whole video because I was like " Ive ac always on is when your plugged into the wall outlet and when the power comes back on its supposed to keep the ac outlet on the powerstation on" nah that's cool man I never knew! Thanks!!
This is the single biggest missing feature that's kept me from buying any of these power stations. I want my computer to kick back on once the power is back after an outage.
@@AskIveSolar Nothing on the River 2 units I have but it also is not diaplaying some expected options after the latest firmware, I think it is due to the app version on my phone but that says it is up to date. Android 12 phone. Will check it again once the app updates.
Im still waiting for someone to see if this is on other devices. I saw a post that said they saw it on a base model EF river max. Which feels odd but I'll take it. I need to see if my base money has it now, that would be dope from a UPS point of view.
It would be even better if the unit remembered how much average power the AC had been using before, and then turn the AC on the instant there is sufficient solar margin to run it while still having something left over to continue charging the battery with. The algorithm could be something like "turn on when: >= 1% and prior recorded AC load < current solar input, OR turn on when >= 5%, whichever comes first". In anycase, hybrid inverters have done this sort of thing forever, its about time that power stations get the feature too.
@@AskIveSolar Ah, slight miss. I was just suggesting that the feature in the EcoFlow could be made more smart. I have no idea if existing hybrid inverters have logic like that or not. I just meant that existing hybrid inverters already generally turn on the AC in the morning once the battery is sufficiently charged by DC-coupled solar. I would expect most hybrid inverters would wait for around 5% too, but for a different reason. Hybrid inverters need to be able to control AC-coupled solar via UL1741SA, by messing with the frequency. This means that the battery has to have enough buffer in both directions to be able to balance any AC-coupled solar being controlled by the inverter and it can't do that without at least a SOC of 5%.
The River 2 got the update now as well. I also got it on my River 1 Max! It's awesome that Ecoflow still supports their old unit like this. I read that the River 1 didn't get it yet which is strange because the R1 is basically the same unit as the R1 max.
A major issue with the entire lineup of Ecoflow solar generators is that for the sake of saving weight, Ecoflow has incorporated, low, short duration surge, high frequency, transformerless inverters in their design. High frequency inverters are ok for powering devices like your laptop, incandescent lights and charging cells phones but their practically worthless and can actually be damaged by powering high inductance loads like microwave ovens, power tools, refrigerator freezers, and small air conditioning units. You may be able to power some of these high inductance loads when your high frequency solar generator is new, but over time, after repeated cycling, you will damage the MOSFET transistors in your solar generator. A much better choice is to purchase a solar generator that uses a low frequency, transformer based inverter. They last far, far longer and can easily power most high inductive loads.
Now that I have a power station I've been rewatching your videos there starting to make more sense to me now lol. Trying to understand watts, volts, amps, etc. In one of your vids, I think you said your TV is using 70w and I forgot how much your internet was using. Is it possible to plug a surge protector strip to a power station with your TV and internet hook to it. If so will the surge protector use less watts, volts or amps to run those two together. Or will the surge protector itself pull more power? Trying to save penny as you say. And save on the amount of outlets being used on the power station.
What's up boss. It's cool because as you start using them, like you said, this stuff starts to make more sense. The surge protector doesn't really impact the watts or volts or amps. I may add like 1 or two watts but it's negligible. All the surge protector will do is give you more outlets, protect the devices from power surges (which don't happen on power stations) and give you another point of turning something off.
@AskIveSolar LOL so that's a yes on connecting a TV, internet and Nintendo switch to the surge protector then plugging the surge protector into the power station without damaging the power station?
Awesome! Yea I really hope to see all the other brands get on the wagon with this. I understand the purpose of the companies automatically shutting off the inverter when the unit hits a low SOC, (to protect the bms from fully shutting off due to inverter losses and what not..) but least give the user the option to be able to control whether the outputs automatically re-enable after power is restored or gets recharged back above a set SOC. Because yea, unless the unit has an active wifi/app control to allow the user to remotely re-enable the outputs, your SOL until you can manually go turn them back on. Which can be a major pain... SPECIALLY if you're running your home wifi/network from the unit! haha smh. Well thanks for the video homie. And yea you got the last name right! haha Brr-rye-neee. 🤘
My man! Glad I got the name right and fingers crossed on this feature going mainstream. Yeah I was using the river 2 to run my netra initially when I didn't have any options and I actually failed to charge it up using a Wi-Fi switch and I had to have my cousin shoot over there and turn it back on. It sucked.
better teardown the bluetti AC30. I heard that it is not true run with LiFeP04 battery but instead lithium ion only. Waiting for teardown videos. thanks.
Not sure what th controversy was re th Bluetti auto-on aspect. It may be terminology confusion, but mine comes on automatically in th morning as soon as th first sun ray hits it.
Hmmm. That's interesting in relation to this. I'd hope that translates to it instantly turning back on when it gets power. Maybe I'll try 4 percent to 100 just in case it needs that "state change" to work
