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But when going "portable" at that scale, price becomes a problem:

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when the specs for example say 3000W (peak 6000W), how long can that peak be?
I guess it's intended for the starting current of motors, as in fridges?
 
LandyMan said:
Agreed ... we built a 3KW 5.12kwh trolley for around R30k
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I was lucky could get cells a while ago so the 4.8kwh cells cost me R15 600
AlphaJohn said:
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Portable se gat. :D
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ja nee 5kwh weeg wat dit weeg maak nie saak wat sy brand se nie
alhoewel met 2nd life kan hulle meer weeg ie cells was dalk 120ah en nou net 100ah available
maar hulle weeg nog 120ah of weeg hulle minder as tank leeg is /jk
 
Bundu said:
when the specs for example say 3000W (peak 6000W), how long can that peak be?
I guess it's intended for the starting current of motors, as in fridges?
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so can i put my welder on light duty and just spot weld on a 5000w /jk
 
AlphaJohn said:
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Portable se gat. :D
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but wheel barrows are portable
and wheels makes anything portable , doing the last lift into the car though

makes me think of a guy on the otter trail many many years ago
he brought everything salami and cheese for lunch sandwiches, meat for braai every night including beers chocolates you name it he had it in the bag, that bag probably weighed more than my wife

suffice to say every day he was the last to arrive at bungalow , i don't know whos torture was worse
him carrying the bag or us smelling the braaivleis every night eating smash and fake mince

so by the end of day two/three can't recall he was handing out bar-ones and other sweets to every one and drank all the beers cause
someones said tomorrow is a hefty one
 
LandyMan said:
But when going "portable" at that scale, price becomes a problem:

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price is in the eye of the wallet holder, if it is fat enough anything goes
 
Got myself two 100w solar panels from Ecoflow. Quickly hooked one up to my Delta over lunch. Seeing this in person, it's kinda nuts. Was getting 93w off the one panel.

Next up I just need to build some portable PVC frames for the panels so I can set them up easily when I need them.

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zolly said:
Got myself two 100w solar panels from Ecoflow. Quickly hooked one up to my Delta over lunch. Seeing this in person, it's kinda nuts. Was getting 93w off the one panel.

Next up I just need to build some portable PVC frames for the panels so I can set them up easily when I need them.

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Also orderd 2. Pricing isn't so bad on those. When did you order and how long did it take to get to you?
 
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Park@82 said:
Also orderd 2. Pricing isn't so bad on those. When did you order and how long did it take to get to you?
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It took me about a week from start to finish including a weekend but I live in the Western Cape. It would have been five days but they messed up dropping off my panels. The panels arrived at the distribution centre in Cape Town, but then there was some sort of mix up so they had to arrange another courier to get them to me, which took a day. Everything else arrived on time but I was very confused when one courier dropped off the feet for my panels and another dropped off my cables, but apparently this is normal for Ecoflow if you order direct from them.
 
zolly said:
Everything else arrived on time but I was very confused when one courier dropped off the feet for my panels and another dropped off my cables, but apparently this is normal for Ecoflow if you order direct from them.
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Feet? Are those the mounting brackets?

"portable PVC frames" did you see someone else do this online? Keen to see them.
 
zolly said:
It took me about a week from start to finish including a weekend but I live in the Western Cape. It would have been five days but they messed up dropping off my panels. The panels arrived at the distribution centre in Cape Town, but then there was some sort of mix up so they had to arrange another courier to get them to me, which took a day. Everything else arrived on time but I was very confused when one courier dropped off the feet for my panels and another dropped off my cables, but apparently this is normal for Ecoflow if you order direct from them.
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Think I saw someone complain about that on the Ecoflow FB page. Did the solar panels come with the solar cable?
 
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Think I saw someone complain about that on the Ecoflow FB page. Did the solar panels come with the solar cable?
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Ya, but I had spares from the power stations, so now I have a collection of cables building up.
 
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