How to power your Whole House with a battery generator - Ecoflow Delta pro

In today's video, I'm going to show you how to

power

my entire

house

using a

battery

backup system. Now this is an all in one unit but it is capable of providing 240 volts of electricity which is very important because it is ultimately comparable to

your

typical gas

generator

and that means it should be able to run all of

your

appliances and that includes things such as electric dryers, well pumps or other large items such as your electric stove. The additional benefit of this connection is its flexibility. I already have a gas

generator

, but I wanted to be able to use both this

battery

and my gas generator when I needed it, so here I installed this special switch.

This is a 30 amp switch that allows me to switch between two different generator inputs. Normally, I only see one of these inlets installed on the outside of your

house

because you have to run your gas generator. Outdoors, this is what I'm using for my battery setup. I am using two Ecoflow Delta Pros along with one expansion battery per piece, this should give me around 16,000 watts of run time and I can run almost 8,000 watts of

power

loads. This is just a standard 30 amp Reliance generator plug. This is the same type you use for your gasoline generator. Now I'm going to use this normal generator cable to connect it directly to the input and then the other end goes into the special device called the Hub, this is what connects two Ecoflow Delta Pros.

Now many of you may be curious about this switch box and the way it works is quite simple, it is called three pole. 3 pole double throw switch means I'm actually switching three different wires, they are two hot and my neutral wire, the center position is actually the connection to my electrical panel which goes up through this wire and then connects to the circuit breaker The lock has a lever on the side and when I move it I break the connection to this input and now I'm basically in the off position and this is really just like a Frankenstein switch, I press the lock and now I'm switched. to my outside entrance so this really gives me a lot of flexibility in having these two outlets anytime I want to use them so I can run a battery system indoors or I can plug in my gas generator outdoors.

Now, let's give these things a real test and see. If it really works this will give me some light while there is no power, that's my interlock, this is my generator and I can't start it until this board is out of the way, this is just a mechanical type of interference board when I launch. my main we'll see what happens so now the house has no power so this would be exactly what would happen during a power outage that beep is just my UPS so my eco flows are on. I have my switch set to the entrance. position you'll want to make sure all your connections are good now you can see with the main one on top.

I can slide that plate up and that means my interlock breaker is now on but of course I can't turn my main power back on until this goes off, that's the interlocking part, you can choose one or the other, the eco flows are on, but we have to turn on the 240 volt adapter and that is done by pressing this button, so let's turn it back on and see what's happening. here you can hear the fans. I think they are working, so normally you would be running this on your iPhone. This is what we have. You are interested in the 853 watt output on one device and if we look at the other 450.

Now I hope in the future they can combine a type of combined view of the 240 view, but right now you have to go in and check each one from an electrical perspective , this was very easy, you don't have to have that switch if you only have one input if you are only going to mount it indoors then the big question is how long can I keep it running, this will vary, anything you can turn off during a power outage , of course. I'm going to extend the amount of run time. Everything will be fine. The first thing I want to test is the microwave which is empty so I don't want to run it for more than a couple of seconds but it seems fine.

Lights are easy. Try a garage door opener. it's working fine here's my heating system now this is a pretty high efficiency propane system but remember most heating systems don't use electricity for the fuel they use electricity to run motors and pumps but that's it a much lower electrical demand than the heating part itself. I also have two refrigerators in this house, this one is an older one, you can already hear the compressors running fine, this one is the newer, more modern one, and this one is still running, so it will be a big deal to test this dryer.

I don't know if they're going to be able to make it work because remember I have two refrigerators on, a bunch of lights, all the little outlets in your house that work, if we can make it work there, we're good. I'm really impressed, yes you can see that 3600 watts in a 2900. Now remember, this is not just my dryer running, the

whole

house is running in addition to my electric dryer and when you test a well you have to let the water run for a while . a little bit so that your pump turns on normally when the pump turns on when I'm using the battery or the generator I'll see the lights dim a little bit so we'll see if that happens I don't really see any kind of dimming so It's safe to say. that the pump is working fine now that I'm back downstairs these things still seem to be humming, another tip is to use battery systems for backup power when you turn on your gas generator, it doesn't really matter how much power what you're using will generally run at the same speed unless you have an inverter generator, so for the most part you could run all the appliances you want, but you will burn gas quickly using the average 4,000 watt gasoline generator. about 15 gallons a day running at full load, that's a lot of gas to have on hand, but the benefit of the batteries is that if you go and start turning off the lights, the batteries will only draw the exact amount of power that is needed, but what now?

What do you do when the charge runs out? You have to refuel this properly, it doesn't use gas. You have a couple of options. The first is that you can still use a gas generator. Now Ecoflow makes one that is completely automatic and you can plug it in. I put it right into these and it sounds really cool, but I haven't been able to try it out yet so I don't want to tell you it's a big deal to buy until I see it first hand. My plan is. Run my gas generator whenever these batteries reach about 20 percent.

I will connect the AC outputs of the gas generator directly to the charging cables on the back of the Delta Pros. The point of this video was to show you that you can power your entire house using a battery backup and it is actually quite simple to use, it is not the perfect system for everyone, many people will simply want to use their gas generator and that is okay, the Power backup depends on what you want and how prepared you want to be for a disaster. If you have other ideas on how I can improve my system or want to tell me what you're doing with yours, leave me a comment below and I hope you enjoyed this video.

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