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• The wave recounts 3 for $ 1300, but it often decreases to 900 dollars. The optional battery package adds between $ 550 and 900 dollars, depending on sales and deals.
• The wave 3 provides enough cooling and heating for small spaces and does this calmly calmly (the air conditioner remains after all).
• While portable, the wave 3 with the battery is somewhat heavy at 55.1 pounds.

A few years ago, I have built Campervan from Connect Ford Transtit. My goal when designed was “replacement of tents”, not “living throughout the year.” As such, I only included ways to keep windows Open and free from errors At night, in addition to a small USB power fan. However, I am a victim of my success, as I liked to use it so much that I wanted adventures in the weather and the most hot and cold environments. the Ecoflow 3 wave It looked like a perfect solution.

Wave 3 is a portable thermal pump, allowing you to increase or reduce the temperature in a small space such as a car or a tent. This is not one of the cheap heat pumps (Peltier) that only provides a few degrees of difference from the ocean. Inside the 3 wave is a compressor like a full -size air conditioner. It is classified on 6100 heat units of cooling and 6800 heat units of heating (which will cover about 120-180 square feet). This is the same as you will happen from a small, cheap, unparalleled air conditioner, similar to the window.

It is important, however, there is optional Battery package 1,024 watts an hour. You can run the wave 3 via the standardized standard plug if the truck has a reflective truck. This ability means that you can use the 3 -home wave as well, if necessary. For my structure, it was easier to charge the optional battery for the 3rd wave via panels and solar batteries, and allow it to operate the 3 wave. Although it is carried, it still draws a lot of energy. More than my setting can be delivered without returning wires.

My experience with Ecoflow 3 wave

I had to redesign my VAN design to suit and secure the 3 wave. By outputing the rear seat (which I never used) and building a lighter bed frame, I already saved 34.9 lbs, despite the 3 wave and its battery adds 55.1 pounds. Colin Chapman It will be proud.

The wave requires at least 3 tubes to vent the air outside. It helps to imagine the unit as two separate thermal floors linked to a large plastic body. In the end, the air enters the air through vertical vent. This passes through the radiator and comes out more warmer or more cold, depending on the required temperature. On the opposite end, the opposite process occurs. The air enters, passes through a different radiator, and the hot air (when cooling) or cold air (upon heating) comes out to the top as an “exhaust”. Obviously, you don’t want to mix this air with your living space, so you need to run one of the isolated accordion tubes outside.

For my setting, I cut a piece of corrugated plastic covers to fit the window on the sliding door by the passenger. In this, a hole cut the size of the ventilation opening. All this slides into a slightly open window space, and remains sealed against insects. The tube is long enough to open the door without its chapter.

The preparation of one tube is definitely the easiest, but there is another option. The wave includes 3 seconds that rises on Entry From the “exhaust” side of the unit. Instead of taking the air from your living space, running or cooling, and sending it out, the 3 wave will withdraw the air from the outside to use it on the side of the compressor and then send this air out.

This is generally more efficient because with the preparation of one tube, you can create a simple negative pressure inside your living area because you send some of this air outside. This negative pressure pulls the hot (or cold) air from the outside through any angle available or cortex. However, at least in my setting, the second tube will be a big problem. I don’t think there is a correct or wrong answer here, what is the best thing to prepare and space.

There are buttons at the front of the 3 wave that allows you to control temperature and other features, but there is also an application. Since the 3 -inch wave is one inch of my bed, the app looks unnecessary for me, but to prepare you, if the unit is outside or not affiliated with, the app looks useful.

To test the wave 3, I visited National Kings Park In California. Although it was late spring, the weather seemed to be early summer. So instead of heating, I had a perfect temperature. Although the temperature was great, the battery drain was more than I expected. “Up to eight hours,” Ecoflow says, but this seems really optimistic. Perhaps if it is not a lot of work, only a few degrees of temperature adjustment, then I may see eight hours, but I think that description will be more likely, at least with my setting.

Although I have 2,400 watts of an hour of batteries in my truck, it is made for low -energy low -energy loads such as lights and a refrigerator, not intense wave clouds 3. While it will slowly recharge the Ecoflow battery, they cannot maintain the system operation. So I am not convinced that I can get eight hours of cooling if the atmosphere is especially hot outside. Again, your setting may be different, but I don’t expect eight hours for most situations.

I was planning last night Valley of Death To test this accurate theory, but I missed my window, and it was good in the summer before I had the opportunity. I did not trust the ecoflow to run overnight, while maintaining a reasonable temperature, when it exceeds 100 degrees Fahr Long astronomical exposure.

When heating and sometimes when cooling, condensation inside the wave 3 water will require some water from an inner tank. A small hose is included for this. Since I did not do much heating other than knowing if that has succeeded, I do not know how many times it will be required. By default, this does not happen automatically, so it will not leak on your land. My plan for this winter is to bring an empty bottle of water and allow it to drain at night if necessary.

Finally, I have seen online some people who use the wave 3 to Keep the interior of their car cold for their dogs While they are far away and do other things. There is even a pet care. This is a terrible idea. If anything wrong happens (and it was an electronic product, there are countless things that may get worse), you have a dead pet. Do not do this.

Ecoflow Wave 3 specifications

• Refugee energy: 6,100 btus
• Heating power: 6,800 BTUS
• Weight: 33.7 pounds (unit), 21.4 pounds (battery)
• Battery life with an optional battery: 2-8 hours (claim)
• The typical price is $ 1,300, but I saw it for $ 900, and there are often the package deductions.
• The app is available on IOS and Android
• A two -year warranty on the 3 -year wave and the battery

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From reading other reviews online, from professionals and from the camp and VanlifersI think the main issue in the 3 wave is excessively optimistic expectations. In a well and well sealed truck, the wave can reduce 3 degrees surrounding a lot. Perhaps it is not enough to sit inside during the day in the Valley of Death, but it is sufficient to allow a comfortable sleep if it is still 80 degrees outside. In an isolated truck or minimal tent, the result will be less impressive. This is just the physics of the device of this size, as well, how the heat transfer works. Will you blow up cold or warm air across your body in a hot or cold tent? Yes. Will you make a tent throughout the year without other considerations? You will not do.

I paid $ 1,200 for the MY 3 wave, including the battery, which is very considering that I only spent about $ 5,000 in adding solar energy, refrigerator, batteries, etc. to my truck. After saying this, I am more confident that I can initiate some adventures in the seasons that I had never intended for my truck. Alaska in February or Valley of Death in August? No, but there are a lot of options not quite for those extremists that I could not do and I want now. Assuming that the 3rd wave lasts for a few years, this is not a bad investment.

As long as you keep in mind that the thermal dynamics miracles cannot work, and that it can help in cooling and heat but it is not an alternative to actual insulation or HVAC in full size, the wave 3 must help make the truck or your tent a little comfort during multiple seasons.

The last thing: the price of the 3 wave has decreased since I bought it, but it seems that the battery price has risen. It is worth monitoring sales and deals.

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