Power solutions for your boat | Ecoflow Smart Generator + Ecoflow Max

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Regular viewers will know we’ve ditched our unreliable and very expensive diesel generator. The aim was, and still is, to get as much of our power input from green sources as possible. To do that we have almost 1000W of solar, we also have a large Balmar alternator to get as much power in, when the engine is running, as possible. But the key to making this work was the Super B Lithium batteries we fitted last winter. These accept a charge much better than AGMs do and can be deep discharged without worry. So the hope was that on days where we have to motor or we find ourselves on a dock with shore power we can quickly recharge the batteries fully.
Well strangely for the Med. we have had very few times that we’ve had to motor this season (mustn’t complain about that!) and we have only visited a marina twice in 6 months, so we do find ourselves occasionally having to be careful with our power usage. But the other important point is we haven’t been able to charge the Super B Lithium house bank fully on regular occasions to allow them to top balance.
The solution we have come up with is to have a small, efficient, petrol generator and rather than purely charge the house bank with it we use it to charge an Ecoflow Max with an extension battery. The max also has its own fold out solar panels that we can deploy when at anchor (we even use the 2 110W panels on top of the upturned dinghy on deck while we’re sailing if it’s calm). This is good because it is a very efficient way of getting power from a generator. Having the separate batteries in the form of the Ecoflow Max gives us redundancy in power supply. It has its own inverter and in built MPPT for solar, all good things to have on a boat.
So if we’re running low on power we can fire up the generator to give us more, or if we are wanting to limit the usage from our house bank because we want to top balance we can make sure we use the power from the Ecoflow Max as much as possible to allow the house bank to reach full capacity and top balance the Nomada batteries.
We will show how our testing goes in the episodes. I will also update this description to say how things are going and link to any items we have on it in future episodes