EcoFlow Alternator Charger

[Brian_B]

I have been reading about the 12 V charge plug being fried when charging ecoflow power stations. Does the same thing happen when using the 110 plug behind the console? I have the smaller ecoflow river pro 2 power station.

It would be much worse. The 110V inverter in the Bronco is a lot smaller than what a Ecoflow or similar charges from the wall outlet. They are expecting to have a full 15A household AC outlet, not a 400W rectified inverter wave. It probably won't melt like the rear power point does, but good chance of the inverter just shutting off on overload and/or popping the fuse.

Not to mention the efficiency hit of converting DC->AC->DC

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[crzyhawk]

I don't think this will work. If your only getting 80-100w before the converter, the converter is not going to get more (by the AC > DC inversion), in fact some amount of loss (inefficiency) will occur...if you do get more then patent your process and make trillions of $ by solving the (alleged) energy crises

80-100 watts are coming through the 12v port. the 400 watt inverter is a completely separate circuit. the converter will be plugging into the 400 watt 110v AC port, not into the 12v port. getting 180w out of a 400w plug isn't unreasonable or mindboggling mathematics.

 

[crzyhawk]

It would be much worse. The 110V inverter in the Bronco is a lot smaller than what a Ecoflow or similar charges from the wall outlet. They are expecting to have a full 15A household AC outlet, not a 400W rectified inverter wave. It probably won't melt like the rear power point does, but good chance of the inverter just shutting off on overload and/or popping the fuse.

Not to mention the efficiency hit of converting DC->AC->DC

The inverter doesn't work directly with the ecoflow, because the ecoflow requires a pure sinewave, and the built in inverter provides square sinewave signal. The signal is too 'dirty' for the ecoflow to use. That said, if you could do it, you'd want to turn down the ecoflow from it's max AC (which you should do anyways). It's a 400w inverter, so you'd want to set it to something lower than 400w. I usually charge mine at 500w on AC, but you can easily lower the value in the app as shown below.

 

[crzyhawk]

OK got the converter in today, and tested things out. TLDR: It works. The longer version is that it didn't work as well I as I had hoped. I'm able to charge the ecoflow off the inverter @ 101w. I'd hoped for a larger value, but I think the converter is the problem. It's advertised at 180w but that's a lie. Before I went out to the bronco and tested, I plugged it into the wall, and it put out...101w on shore power too.

Since I have two input ports on the back of my Delta 2, I plugged into the center console 12v port as well, and got 96w there so you can see the difference such that it is.

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