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Using my Ecoflow Delta 2 to run all of my appliances 24/7.

greengooseman

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My DIY system has evolved over the years. My core item(s) has always been 36v Lithium Ion batteries and a Chinese 3000w 36v Pure sine wave inverter.
Ive acquired a little over 13kWh of battery storage. I'm running a side by side fridge, a TRUE brand commercial fridge, a chest freezer, and upright freezer, a wine fridge and an array of grow bulbs. All in all less than 11Kw of electrical demand per day.

This Christmas I purchased an Ecoflow Delta 2 w/ battery for $999 on Amazon. This little beast can run all above said appliances without issue. Not to mention its nearly silent compared to my jet engine fan cooled 36v inverter.

Hmm, what if I could use my Delta 2 instead of that noisy inverter. Well, yes you can and yes I did.

Simply put, I turned off my 36v inverter. Ran a pair of wires from my battery bank to an XT60i connector, plugged it into my Delta's solar port and that was about it. *I did add a low voltage cutoff to prevent it from draining my battery bank too low. Set for 32v cutoff and 35v restore.

I added my schematic and a few random photos.
 

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Fantastic.

I had my 36V battery bank run into my EcoFlow Delta Mini 24/7 for about a year until I recently sold it, I'm looking to get a Delta 2 Max here in the near future to replace it.


Edit -
I'm also running 36v NMC battery packs.


Double edit-

I forgot to mention that I wasn't really running a lot of stuff off of my Delta Mini, just incidental lighting in my living room, soldering irons, drill battery chargers, vacuum cleaner etc.

I basically used it on occasion in my little project corner as needed.

But that with my extra 5kWh of batteries connected to my EcoFlow that I could have run quite a bit off of it.
 
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My DIY system has evolved over the years. My core item(s) has always been 36v Lithium Ion batteries and a Chinese 3000w 36v Pure sine wave inverter.
Ive acquired a little over 13kWh of battery storage. I'm running a side by side fridge, a TRUE brand commercial fridge, a chest freezer, and upright freezer, a wine fridge and an array of grow bulbs. All in all less than 11Kw of electrical demand per day.

This Christmas I purchased an Ecoflow Delta 2 w/ battery for $999 on Amazon. This little beast can run all above said appliances without issue. Not to mention its nearly silent compared to my jet engine fan cooled 36v inverter.

Hmm, what if I could use my Delta 2 instead of that noisy inverter. Well, yes you can and yes I did.

Simply put, I turned off my 36v inverter. Ran a pair of wires from my battery bank to an XT60i connector, plugged it into my Delta's solar port and that was about it. *I did add a low voltage cutoff to prevent it from draining my battery bank too low. Set for 32v cutoff and 35v restore.

I added my schematic and a few random photos.
Just checking you just have the battery reserves on the Delta 2 set from 25% to 90% and not using any automations?

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