AUTOMATIC Battery Backup for your ENTIRE HOUSE! - Ecoflow Smart Home Panel

This is the

ecoflow

delta pro and when I showed you this last year it became a bestseller and that's because it's ultra portable, puts out a ton of power, and is easy to use, but even during that review it was missing one. key feature and this is how it connects directly to

your

home

. Now this is compatible with standard switches and transfer

panel

s, but those things are all manual. People wanted a solution that would make power transfer completely

automatic

and that's where this box comes in. This is the

ecoflow

smart

home

panel

and is the interface between the ecoflow delta pro and

your

home's electrical system.

Now when all of this is connected you have a fully

automatic

power

backup

solution and in this video we will look at how one of these are installed and what the purchase entails now here my friends were in his basement he already had two delta pro along with two sets of batteries, but we immediately ran into a problem, his basement is finished and there's a lot of stuff in there, so we couldn't fit all those delta pros, the batteries and the

smart

home panel right next to us, the circuit breakers , so we wanted to place this panel a little further away and that will require some plumbing to extend the distance between the smart home panel and your existing circa panel and while there are many electrical projects that I like to do myself, this will not be something you are going to recommend to most homeowners who can do it themselves, so you decided to hire an electrician now that this ticks everyone's boxes. electrical codes in the US so anyone can install it, but some electricians won't know the eco flow brand and may have no idea what you're looking for them to do, so I sent them the specs for the unit and a They took a look at it and realized it was something they could easily install.

The most challenging part of any electrical installation will be how things are going to be laid out, so we knew where a breaker panel was and found the location. We wanted to mount the smart home panel and unfortunately between these two points you could put a conduit behind your heating system and that would be how we could run the cables between the two panels, next we needed to open the smart panel home panel to install the relay modules now these are included with the kit and you get one module for each of the 10 circuits now this panel will not power everything in your

house

you have to choose up to 10 circuits that you want to have power during an outage and the circuits that Choose can be 120 volts or 240 volts, meaning you can run things like a water heater or even something like a well pump.

Now we need to make our electrical connections to the existing breaker panel. It has red and black wires, the way this panel works it connects in line with your existing circuits, those red wires will come from your existing breaker panel and the black wires will go back into the panel completing the circuit and because you may have circuit breaker circuits. 20 or 30 amps, they have a different relay module for each one. Zika Flow includes those in the kit, so the electrician will install the appropriate module in each of the circuit slots. This electrician did a great job on the installation.

It wasn't really easy because he was about 12 feet away from the existing panel. They now include enough wiring in the kit that if you are right next to the breaker panel you wouldn't need any of these pipes or junction boxes and the install would be much easier, you're probably wondering how much all this work cost. My friend paid a thousand dollars and that's here in Massachusetts where things are generally pretty expensive, but he was also told that if he put the panel right next to the existing breaker panel that the installation charges would have easily been less than half of That amount, it took the electrician about four hours to complete the job and when he is done, this is what you will get, you will also have a 30 amp circuit breaker installed in your existing circuit breaker panel. panel and this is used to charge the delta ecoflow pros because it is 30 amps you can get super high speed charging anytime they need to be completed now with the delta pros connected to the smart home panel this is ready to go you will notice There are a couple of LEDs on the front there is one for each of the delta pro connections and there is also an LED that indicates that the street power is on and that is the first test I wanted to try to turn off the main breaker and this would simulate a loss of energy. to the

house

, but this is where a setup like this is even better than a gas generator because it's completely electronic, the switch was instant, he has his home office hooked up to this thing, none of the computers in the room blinked when power went out, even if you had a top of the line generator, you will lose power for about a minute or two while a traditional gas generator makes the switch.

Now you can use an app to control all of this and monitor your circuits if you are using with any type of solar input, you can see how much power is coming in, you can see if the devices are charging with electricity from the street and how much power each is using. individual circuit. Now this will be even better than one of those detection systems. Because it actually knows the exact amount of power per circuit, you can also turn circuits on and off, now that may not be a feature everyone needs. It's cool how electronic this thing is and gives you complete control. the silver button in the center for years I worked in data centers and all

battery

backup

systems had to have an emergency shutdown button.

There are many people who already use the delta pros outdoors for camping or even as backup power at home, but now with the smart home panel, you have the ability to connect it directly to the grid and you can get a total interface to view what is happening, how much power you are using and whether you have already had delta pros or are considering them and If you want backup power, the smart home panel is definitely a great addition to the line and now you can have a complete power solution anywhere any time you want, but I think one of the smartest features is that these things are still portable if you camp once or twice a year. you can unplug them while it's on take them with you and the only thing you lose is your house won't have backup power but you kind of get double duty out of these you guys know a lot of my videos are about DIY and me.

I like to do things myself, so if you're interested in installing one of these yourself, be sure to read all the documentation or watch the video ecoflow made where they show each step of the process. The video was to show someone how this can be installed to hire an electrician and some of the steps you want to take and what the benefits could be if you decide to make this purchase.