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the Ego Flow River took Pro. It is a newly designed model of the
River two Pro. Had a River two Pro in the past, and this
one is releasing in early April of twenty twenty three. Ecoflow said this to
me and they're like, hey, we're going to send you one of these
early. So I've been using it for a week or two something like that,
and they said we're rereleasing it due to technical issues that have all been
resolved from the previous model of River two Pro. I myself have had this
river, this original Ecoflow River which you guys have seen this in a few
of my videos in the past. I've had this for probably a year.
They had a huge Amazon sale about a year ago, and I picked this
up for less than one hundred dollars. So this one's about two hundred and
twenty some two hundred and forty something WAD hours. I forget what exactly what
it was. The original River the River two is seven hundred and sixty eight
WATD hours, so it's about three times the capacity. But you can tell
by looking at it it's not three times the size, like, it's not
even three times the depth really, So here's the how deep this one is?
The River two pros definitely taller than the original River, but you would
expect some variants of size comparison because guess what, it's three times the capacity.
So you can see the screen right there. It's the same screen that's
on all these same screen that's on the original River. I've got two or
three other models that have that same kind of screen on. It tells you
everything you need to know, how many hours you have left, what's your
capacity is, what the input and output in wattage in watts is. It's
got three USB A ports and a USBC one hundred watt port right there.
So that's pretty cool that that's a PD one hundred on there. I think
that that's something that can be taken advantage of for larger tablets than laptops.
Even cigarette lighter adapter there with two barrel type connectors. You can turn the
DC on by just short pressing that button. These are on automatically just when
you turn the power on, and then the AC you short press that and
you've got four AC outlets instead of only two AC outlets on the smaller version.
Now you can see right there it dropped ninety five or fifty six hours
right there. Is what that says when I turn the A C on,
So the AC the inverter is going to take more juice to run that stuff
then the DC stuff is. But that's kind of normal. It's a test
I like to do on these, is to plug in something and have my
IC seven h five. You guys will see a video on this upcoming with
the new enclosure that you see right here, So kind of a teaser right
now. So I've got the twenty ft eight frequency just monitoring right now,
and you can see what the scope and the waterfall look like. So I
want to turn this on. I'm gonna turn that back on and I'm going
to turn this on. So now both of them are on, but there's
nothing plugged in. Obviously, don't really see a huge difference. Maybe a
slight variation around the fourteen dot O seven four megahertz range there. I just
went away, probably just strong ft eight signals more than anything. So let
me turn it off real quick and see if now not really any variations there.
But I'm going to plug something in and see what kind of RFI it
produces. Now, this one right here did not. I did a couple
of RFI tests with it. I had zero issues, except for when I
plugged it into my RV. We used that in the Grand Canyon. I
plugged in my trailer to it one time because our RV spot didn't have electricity
hookups, so I would charge it with that thing until the battery died.
And I did it one time and Mike said his bandscope went nuts on his
IC seventy three hundred. But I don't think it was the power station.
I think it was the RV. Something in the RV was causing electrical interference
in RFI because I have used that at the Hunting Lease, not plugged into
the trailer, just charging my well, charging various things cameras, phones,
tablets, computer whatever, And I've had zero issue with RFI at the Hunting
Lease. So that thing, and all the tests I've done with that thing,
it does not produce any RFI. So I'd be curious to see what
this River two does. So we're going to plug a couple of things into
it right now. Right I was gonna try to get cute and plug in
the original river and let it charge from the river too, but after having
not used that thing for more than a month, it's still a hundred percent
pacity. So that's a testament howel well the battery works all right. So
I've got my phone plugged into the USB right here, USB ads a C
cable and the phone is charging right now. And then I've got my r
finder plugged in to the AC outlet here, so this is on and well
this is on, but that doesn't need to be on, but this stays
on regardless. So I've got something charging via USB A and via AC and
you can see it does indeed have a little bit of spikes here and there
all right, So I'm gonna watch the screen of the radio and turn off.
I'm gonna turn this AC port off right here. I'm gonna point the
camera at the screen of the radio and you'll see that die on the band
scope. Now I cannot hear or tell any difference on the actual FT eight
signal coming in. It's coming in both above and below the signal right there
and right there. That's where they were before. I'm gonna turn it back
on now. So now that the AC inverter is charging my rfinder device again,
it's producing some RFI right there and right there. Again, I can't
really hear. I can't hear it interfering with the actual FT eight signal.
It's just above and below that frequency there. So it does produce a little
bit of RFI when working with the AC port. But I've got them sitting
right next to each other as well. Pardon, pardon the dog right there.
That's at a foster dog we bought named Liza. She lost her front
leg in a car accident, so she's a tripod, really nice dog.
So I've got I've got them sitting right next to each other. If I
moved to the radio over there in the yard somewhere, perhaps I would get
rid of that RFI, or if I took that in the house or something,
or just moved it to a place, you know, proximity wise,
I wanted to get it as close as I could so that we could see
if it was splattering on the band. So it is producing RFI, but
I wouldn't really call it that bad. Okay. Now, now I did
a test like this on my Rhenergy Phoenix, and somebody came by in the
comments said, well, yeah, but try try charging the power station.
Try plugging the power station into a regular outlet and seeing what that does.
And that does produce RFI. But you know what, I don't think I
care about that, because that's not the point. The point of this is
to use it without having it plugged into shore power. The point is to
use this out in the field where you don't have shore power available. And
this is seven hundred and sixty eight wide hours, so it's going to last
a lot longer than a smaller version like that. So I don't really think
I care if this produces RFI when it's plugged into a regular wall socket.
What I do care about is it produces RFI when it's in standalone mode,
which is what it's doing right now. Now, would that keep me from
operating with it? No, not really. I would simply separate the two.
Maybe change the configuration of my antenna a little bit. That might help.
Do a vertical antenna, do a horizontal antenna, something like that,
change the direction of the antenna, that might do it. Anyway, it's
still not too bad for what it is. And a lot of times AC
inverters are going to produce RFI, So you just basically turn that off and
you can still have the DC portion of it. So I wanna walk around
it right here again, like I said in the beginning, all of the
ports are on one side, and I really like that because that means you
can set this thing on a table or in the corner of your tent if
you're camping, or in the corner of your RV and get it out of
the way and you don't have to have wires coming in all sides of it.
This original river right here has all the all these ports on the front,
and it has the AC inverter on the side over here, and then
it has the charging ports where where you plug in the solar panel or the
shore power over here on this side. So it's got three sides that you
could have wires coming out on all three sides. I don't personally like that.
It's a personal preference, but it is what it is. This one
right here has everything on the front except for the charging ports which are in
the back. It came with a very robust, very thick AC power cable
standard plug like you'd see in a computer. No problem, there goes in
right there. It does have a built in solar charge controller, so I
can just plug it directly into a solar panel. But it did not come
with a cable to go a solar panel. It came with a cable that
went from this style plug. There's a name for that plug. I just
forget what it is right now, but there's different sizes of it. But
it came with a cable that went from that to the cigarette lighter adapter.
And you could get one that goes from that to like power poles or something
for a solar panel, or you could get it to MC four or something
like that. Overall, I think this is a win. Again, You're
you're probably not going to find many of these power packs they're COMPLETELYFI quiet.
And for what this is, you know, that's a lot of power.
Seven hundred and sixty eight lot hours. There's a lot of power to take
into the field, have camping and whatnot, so and a lot of you
if you're watching, if you found this video on YouTube and you're not a
Ham radio operator, you're just watching it for the power station, you may
not care about RFI. You're like, well, I don't care about radio.
I don't even do anything with radio. That's okay. I just like
to show this because that's what this channel is about, is about two way
radio, HF radio and HAM radio. So it is producing a little bit
of noise, but I still think that this is something I would take into
the field and use. I will probably have opportunities to do that next week
at the time of this recording, so you might see another video on this
upcoming. Let me know what you think of the comments below.