EcoFlow DELTA Pro: The Ultimate Battery Back-Up For Your Home
The EcoFlow DELTA Pro is about the size of a portable cool box and packs within it 3.6kWh of storage capacity. That's enough energy to provide your entire home with three hours of full power.
When you tap your pockets before leaving the house you are usually checking for three things: Your phone, your wallet… and your portable battery for charging in an emergency. It's nice to have the peace of mind to know that, whatever happens, you'll always have some extra juice on hand. But why should this only apply to our phones?
Last month, the EcoFlow DELTA Pro blazed onto Kickstarter and offers something truly revolutionary: the benefits of battery backup, but not just for your phone - but for your entire home.
In Case of Emergency
The EcoFlow DELTA Pro is about the size of a portable cool box and packs within it 3.6kWh of storage capacity. That's enough energy to provide your entire home with three hours of full power, so if there's a blip on the grid, you won't even notice. And if the grid is completely knocked out, one DELTA Pro unit will provide your home with an entire day of power for all of the essentials.
The DELTA Pro is built for almost anything. In terms of output, it can spit out 3600-7200W of AC power, so there are no domestic tasks it can't handle. If you really, really need to run the dishwasher during a hurricane, the battery will happily supply the electricity, while you do some much-needed soul-searching about your priorities.
What's really cool about the DELTA Pro though is that it isn't doesn't just work in isolation. It's part of an entire power ecosystem that will keep your home up and running. Connect the unit with an extra battery and you can double your power capacity, with 7.2kWh providing up to 2 days of emergency usage. And if your power needs are truly massive? You can daisy-chain 2 DELTA Pros, 2 Smart Extra batteries, and two Smart Generators together so that your home will work on emergency power for almost a week with 25kWh of capacity.
EcoFlow has also made charging the DELTA Pro easy too. You can use an ordinary 240V wall socket, a Smart Home Panel (this is what makes seamless backup power possible), or even plug into EcoFlow's renewable products, such as solar panels or wind turbines.
Perhaps the smartest way to charge though is something that nobody else appears to have thought of yet: You can hitch up to any Level 2 AC electric vehicle charger, and add juice to your EcoFlow battery system. It can go from empty to fully charged in just under two hours. So don't just leave the DELTA Pro at home, as it also makes the perfect companion for camping trips too, as you can charge almost everywhere and keep the lights on even when you're off the grid.
Your Everyday Companion
However, the DELTA Pro is not just for special occasions - it can make itself useful every single day. By acting as the battery backup for your home, it makes a big impact on your electricity usage. Which is great news for both the planet - and your bank balance.
The problem with electricity traditionally is that demand on the grid varies throughout the day. It's highest in the evening, when we're at home with the lights on, running the washing machine, cooking dinner and watching TV. And it's lowest overnight, when obviously most of us are tucked up in bed, and the PlayStation is switched firmly off.
But sadly, the grid can't respond to this. You can't simply flip the "off" switch on a power plant, so fossil fuels are burned around the clock, leading to lots of wasted energy.
But this is where the DELTA Pro comes in. By connecting it to your home electric system, you can use the battery to power your home when demand on the grid is high, and recharge overnight, when electricity is at its cheapest.
This means that over the course of the day, your electricity usage is much less erratic - so less coal and gas are required. You can take from the grid - or renewable sources - when energy is plentiful overnight or during the midday sun. And when energy demand usually peaks, you can reduce your grid consumption by powering your home from your DELTA Pro battery. In fact, if you add 6 400W solar panels into the mix and use them to charge two DELTA Pro units, you can save as much as 20% on your electricity bills.
So if you want to get smarter about your energy usage, and have that all-important peace of mind that in an emergency you'll still have power, the EcoFlow DELTA Pro is perfect for you. We know our phones have a battery backup - but what about the rest of our lives too?