Rivian Mom
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Having a home in Florida, we also want to be prepared for Hurricane season or other severe weather events. My husband is someone that has always been intrigued by these DIY whole house systems, but at the end of last year he decided to do a deep dive into the EcoFlow products. He wanted several early product release reviews and started planning and budgeting his setup.
Until recently, we would use a 10kw generator to power some lights and my refrigerators during power outages from severe weather events. Our generator was almost 20 years old and was nearing the end of its useful life. So earlier rather than purchase another generator, we decided to invest in two Ecoflow Deltrap Pro Ultras and their Smart Home Panel 2 when it was offered as a new product discount in January 2024. Spent around $4,700 per Delta Pro Ultra and $1,200 on each Smart Home Panel 2. Each Smart Home Panel has an automatic transfer switch and can handle 100 amps total or 240v/60 amps. These purchases also qualify for the 30% tax credit, so it was a lot of money, but still hard to pass up at the time.
Had an electrician perform the install and it was $2,500. This was a little pricey, but he decided to opt to use one of Ecoflow's recommended installers instead of a local electrician/friend. The sin tall took about 5 hours to complete.
The Smart Home Panel on the left has all of our critical loads for the house. A total of 18 circuits for lights, fans, refrigerators, internet, etc.. The Smart Home Panel on the right has the downstairs AC and upstairs AC units and my EV charger circuit of the R1S. We keep the two Delta pro ultras hooked up to my critical loads panel on the left, but can switch one over to the panel on the right if I want to run any of my AC units during a grid outage.
I can I tell you from direct experience, the two Delta Pro Ultras and the Smart home panel 2 worked flawless during a recent 12 hour outage. We lost power at 3am and I didn't even realize it switched over to the batteries it was so seamless. At around 11am, I plugged in the Rivian to one of the batteries along with my two 400 watt portable solar panels and was able to supply just under 1,900 watts of power (1400 watts from the R1S and the rest from what little sun we had). He had to make sure the battery did not pull more than 1400 watts from the R1S because the R1S would trip if it ran 1500 watts continuously for more than 5 mins, but at 1400 watts it would run constantly without tripping. In this scenario, he was able to recharge one of the ultras from 40% at 11am to around 90% in a little over 2 hours. This resulted in around a 5% drop in the state of charge from our R1S.
He was planning on repeating this cycle of charing one battery while using the other until the power came back on, but at around 3pm our power was restored and the Smart Home Panels switched back over to grid power seamlessly.
All in all it was very successful real world application. Our house was nice and quiet while all of our neighbors had generators running. This turned out to be a great alternative while we wait for a more permanent V2H solution from Rivian.
Until recently, we would use a 10kw generator to power some lights and my refrigerators during power outages from severe weather events. Our generator was almost 20 years old and was nearing the end of its useful life. So earlier rather than purchase another generator, we decided to invest in two Ecoflow Deltrap Pro Ultras and their Smart Home Panel 2 when it was offered as a new product discount in January 2024. Spent around $4,700 per Delta Pro Ultra and $1,200 on each Smart Home Panel 2. Each Smart Home Panel has an automatic transfer switch and can handle 100 amps total or 240v/60 amps. These purchases also qualify for the 30% tax credit, so it was a lot of money, but still hard to pass up at the time.
Had an electrician perform the install and it was $2,500. This was a little pricey, but he decided to opt to use one of Ecoflow's recommended installers instead of a local electrician/friend. The sin tall took about 5 hours to complete.
The Smart Home Panel on the left has all of our critical loads for the house. A total of 18 circuits for lights, fans, refrigerators, internet, etc.. The Smart Home Panel on the right has the downstairs AC and upstairs AC units and my EV charger circuit of the R1S. We keep the two Delta pro ultras hooked up to my critical loads panel on the left, but can switch one over to the panel on the right if I want to run any of my AC units during a grid outage.
I can I tell you from direct experience, the two Delta Pro Ultras and the Smart home panel 2 worked flawless during a recent 12 hour outage. We lost power at 3am and I didn't even realize it switched over to the batteries it was so seamless. At around 11am, I plugged in the Rivian to one of the batteries along with my two 400 watt portable solar panels and was able to supply just under 1,900 watts of power (1400 watts from the R1S and the rest from what little sun we had). He had to make sure the battery did not pull more than 1400 watts from the R1S because the R1S would trip if it ran 1500 watts continuously for more than 5 mins, but at 1400 watts it would run constantly without tripping. In this scenario, he was able to recharge one of the ultras from 40% at 11am to around 90% in a little over 2 hours. This resulted in around a 5% drop in the state of charge from our R1S.
He was planning on repeating this cycle of charing one battery while using the other until the power came back on, but at around 3pm our power was restored and the Smart Home Panels switched back over to grid power seamlessly.
All in all it was very successful real world application. Our house was nice and quiet while all of our neighbors had generators running. This turned out to be a great alternative while we wait for a more permanent V2H solution from Rivian.
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