ECOFLOW WAVE 2 Portable Air Conditioner, 5100BTUs of Cooling, 6100BTUs of Heating, Add-On Battery, Control with App, No Drainage Required, for Outdoor Camping/RVs or Home Use(Battery Not Included)

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To those of you now making the connection between “home WiFi” and “portable”- yes, you’re onto something there.

The Fastest Cooling and Heating - EcoFlow's tailor-made compressor enables WAVE 2 to drop 18℉ (10℃) in 5 minutes in cooling mode (5100BTU) or raise 18℉ (10℃) in 5 minutes in heating mode (6100BTU). They do say to tilt it back to drain excess water before moving but with the AC and battery weighing about 30Kg combined that can be a challenge! When the compressor is on and cold (rather than cool) air is blowing out of the outlet it’s pushed up and over the bed creating a cooling breeze effect across the width of our room.

It mostly hovered around 400 watts in the standard mode, and I measured sound at around 50 decibels. Draining the unit with the battery attached is tricky, since it brings the total weight from a modest 14kg up to over 20kg, and separating the two without unleashing the water is similarly difficult. USB Type-C problems are not surprising to me; hopefully a firmware upgradable (yes, the battery can get a firmware upgrade via the WAVE 2) can fix this quirk. Alternatively, the Wave 2 can be sat outside, with a single tube connected to the cold air outlet, blowing just cold air into a room.

It’s perhaps unnecessarily showy and I would have preferred some kind of graph or useful info- but accept most people only care how cold it feels!For items that are delivered on a pallet the courier will leave the pallet as close to your door as possible. What I will be doing is determining how well the WAVE 2 manages to reach and maintain a comfortable temperature in a 14 square metre (around 150 square feet) bedroom using both the inlet and outlet hoses to get that ideal, optimum efficiency, dual-hose setup. Add on the DELTA 2 extra battery to reach 2048Wh, or add on the DELTA Max Extra Battery to hit 3040Wh. Cost aside, the biggest problem with a battery of this size is that you’re shouldering the burden of responsible disposal. To set a fair comparison we’ll drop the battery out of the equation (you likely won’t need it around the home, but it has some real potential benefits for load shifting) and set the very low expectation that we want to cool two rooms, but not necessarily at the same time.