Ecoflow Is Better than Bluetti

Gday, just as an fyi

i own an ecoflow river2 and a bluetti ac2a

the ecoflow wins

because:

• ecoflow app has a lot more control. charge limits, charging schedules, discharge schedules. etcetc. bluetti app lets you toggle dc/ac and see charge and discharge rates.

• energy draw readout, bluetti is just wrong. wrong. wrong. says 140w when really im drawing 70w. ecoflow. says the right number, everytime.

• ecoflow comes with a car charger. bluetti nope.

• ecoflow has an app settings to turn on ac when it turns on. so you can use it as ups. bluetti, depsite ac being on when it got to 0% … will not have ac back on when it turns on again. in fact, it wants to charge a bit before it lets you have ac. like at 1% battery only then it does. i think ecoflow does it from 0. so you CANNOT really use Bluetti as a ups

• turning off ac input on bluetti… cuts the ac output power? and takes a few seconds to resume!? wheres the amazing ups function? i think mine is broken

• on my second attempt at dropping it to zero, and now it's . charging super slow - barely enough to keep the load going. nope. it ran out again. it's as if there's not enough charge, it can't charge fast, so it just sucks

• even on turbo charging with no load. it isnt going past 180w of charging speed :/ at 63% soc

bluetti beats ecoflow for usb c 100w output and faster solar charging.

sigh.

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^^ it eventually didnt actually charge and it went to 0% and powered off

i did some comparison

ok so running a fan (internally it has an ac to dc for its internal dc motor)

bluetti 204 wh capacity says 63w (va) at 2:48:00 remaining
ecoflow river 2 256wh capacity says 33w (real) at 4:42:00 remaining

bluetti 204/63 * 0.865 fudge to get to the time estimate (assuming inverter losses)
ecoflow 256/33 * 0.606 fudge to get to the time estimate (so this would contain inverter and apparent power loss)

bluetti is 80% the capacity of the ecoflow
so the 4.7hrs of then ecoflow at bluetti capacity would mean Bluetti should run 3.76 hours. but it only gives 2.8hrs

summary:
and ecoflow must be accommodating the apparent power within its time estimate but displaying real power to the user whereas bluetti is actually more honest by displaying the VA where the maths, given its capacity, matches its time remaining

however, for the same load and accounting for battery capacity differences, the bluetti gives 25% less runtime than the ecoflow

sad
i really had hoped they were comparable