Hey hello YouTubers if you're like me and you've thought about buying a backup battery system for your home or a backup generator uh that's what I ended up doing and that's what I'm going to talk about how and why I bought it what I bought so first thing is justifying this kind of expense why do we need to buy a backup generator well we've had several Power outages over the years it's it's always a little bit of an inconvenience not that big a deal but you know you kind of wish you could flip the lightson well when Helene hit and we were out not for a few hours but a few days actually about 10 days I thought enough is enough I need to get a backup system so what to buy well I considered gasoline well actually I didn't that was the first thing I eliminated because I don't want to have like a I just don't want to have gasoline hanging around the house a lawn mower kind of sound going on when I'm running it I thought about natural gas cuz we do have natural gas here and there would be a UnlimitedSupply so there's an advantage to that but I really just wanted a battery and so I looked into batteries what could I buy I heard about the Tesla power power wall I think they called it but I started investigating and I found this Echo flow battery that I have pictured here and it was a 3600 Watt and that sounded pretty good and it was 3,000 bucks give or take that sounded like okay but as I continued to investigate I found another one for 4,900 let's say 5,000 bucks so for the $5,000 you get 7200 Watts which is whichis double the amount of wattage for an extra $2,217 this is the Delta Pro Ultra it's a new system it's a step up it's expandable I felt like this would be the right item to buy all right so our Echo flow Delta Pro Ultra has been delivered I ordered this from Lowe's literally only two days ago it was just delivered by FedEx and now I got to deliver it from here into the house and that's going to be quite a trick I've got the hand truck I've got my back braces on let's go for it so I got it on the hand truck you know withthe handle in the hand truck to go as a four-wheeler and I'll see how that works versus just Wheeling it in on two all right so I got it on the hand truck I got it on the four wheels and so this is how it looks I'm just going to show it cuz I'm going to take it down the hallway got to have plenty of space and get it into the back room where I'm going to disassemble it or assemble it all right so I got it in here this is the inverter so this goes on top so I'm first going to take this box off thetrolley then I'm going going to going to go back and get the battery bring that in and I'll probably unwrap that first okay we've got this thing assembled which is no small feet for a little guy with big hands anyway uh I was able to brace it up against the wall I was able to lift and push it into place it kind of locks in place which is great and as far as I'm concerned that coaster with the wheels is very sturdy and seems to do a great job now the deal is you need to have this lined up correctly to have yourbattery ports on the same side this this little lock bracket here this plug basically assembly goes from one plug to the other that's what feeds uh the one un to the next unit without that it's not going to turn on so make sure that's lined up and then you're good to go I plugged it in now my Chevy Chase moment so now my Chevy Chase moment I got it plugged into my regular wall unit it is plugged in now how do we get it to go well one of these is an on button well look at there here it comes we're up to30% already fantastic I'm getting a call from Chip I think I will take a break and let this thing charge itself up a little bit hallelujah praise the lord we made it we did it all by our little selves all right we'll see you later okay I've been learning as I go and basically I just want to power it in I just want to plug it in power it up you see I'm up to 46% already it's been about maybe an hour or less been on the phone with a friend and uh so then you want to you know use it to charge up your devices of course so what I learnedhere is you have to push AC and then that will put out your AC power I don't know what this is about but anyway now that my AC power's on I can plug in all of my just like your home I can plug in various devices or you know appliances into my plug-in strip and then I have the USB outlet which happens to be DC so I push that on and now hopefully my phone will light up there you go so in other words I learn as I go like I said and you're having a struggle with me but this is fantastic uh it's very heavy the hardest part ofputting this in if you're a do yourselfer is the weight of it I'm one little guy and I got it in by myself I got it plugged in I got it you know leveled up and now I got my dog I wish I could level him up but the point is that it's doable but I would recommend you know two guys doing it Zeke please okay you're the St show um anyway it works voila it works and obviously this is just a start but eventually if I did have a power outage I'd want to plug in my refrigerator and my coffee maker and various things of that nature but itworks it's a good deal and we'll talk to you later well I took a little nap so I don't know exactly when it hit 100% wow look at that 99 but anyway we're fully charged everything that was plugged in here it's fully charged so I'm loving it and I'll be doing more YouTubes about it as I learn more and look up more things and we'll talk to you okay so a few things I learned along the way if you're a do-it-yourselfer and you just want to get a home backup system uh that's what I decided to do uh the things you haveto think about well where am I going to put it it's a plug-and play you can put it where you want and then you can just turn it on and start using it it is heavy so keep that in mind but I just put it near a wall outlet in a room you know where there was space and now if the power goes out tonight for example I will have to run power cords from my refrigerator or whatever I do need if I can't carry it over to it I'd have to run an extension cord from the device or from the appliance to the device uh you put the Caster wheels onfirst you build the little platform then you get the unit on that platform once you do that all the he heavy lifting is over so that's a good deal the inverter this is two big Parts one is the inverter where you plug in and plug out and all the computer uh issues are built into that system or built into that box that weighs about 75 pounds the battery itself is the bottom part and that's expandable up to five batteries so if if my needs increase or once I like this and I'm using it if I want tobuy another battery or two or three batteries I can certainly do that so that's something I had in mind when I bought it but this thing comes with its own power cord so you can plug it right into your wall and start charging it then you can start using it to charge your phone and your iPad or what have you I'm going to bring my Wi-Fi uh T-Mobile device downstairs I want to check that because in case there is a power outage that's one of the things I want is Wi-Fi all right so essentially uh the ultra to me was theway to to go I'm glad I got it if you guys are thinking about it you know check it out do your own research make your own decisions but so far so good and we'll see you next time so I do have a couple of thoughts in closing I bought this essentially to weather the storm so to speak to last me a few hours possibly in the future a few days you don't know but the main thing there is it is expandable so if I needed to increase the duration I could buy new batteries and just add them to the stack and Iwould be good to go for an extended period of time the other aspect is I can charge this using solar panels so I might do that in the future if I were to map it into the house system I would call an electrician it's not that big a deal but it's something that an electrician would have to do so I'll some find somebody certified to do that and uh beyond that uh I'm just glad I got it I feel better now and uh look forward to the next storm that's the irony now I'm kind of hoping the power goes out just to test it out all rightwell thanks again take care of yourself enjoy yourself and uh may your future be sunny and bright so long
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