Build a 5 kWh 3k/6k mobile Portable power station in 15 minutes | Delta ultra

so there are many options for portable power stations or portable power sources on the market right now but there's none of them that quite beat everyone else for its value than this and today on this episode I'm going to show you what this does what it's capable of and how you can build it in less than 15 minutes all right for all under $2,000 so if you want to find out stay tuned all right so before we get into this let's go ahead and uh put up disclaimer uh we purchased all the stuff with our own monies none of the stuff was given to us none of this stuff sponsored it all cost roughly around $2,000 and nobody's paying for this video okay so with that being said let's get into it all right first of all there's really only three components to this system okay there's this hybrid Allin one inverter there's a battery that's in the box and there's the box right that's pretty much it um so with that being said let's go ahead and talk about the uh the components so this right here is an eg4 3000 watt hybrid all-in one inverter this right here is a second generation of this unit and currently at making of this video there's only two generations so this the latest generation but has 3,000 Watts continuous and 6,000 WTS surge a lot of people are going to say uh you can't uh 6,000 watt surge is not a lot and 3,000 Watts continuous not a lot H it kind of is depending on what using it for for the purpose of this if you're using as a portable power source it kind of is mainly because of the capacity of the battery uh but for whatever reason you this will enough power you can just get more and you can just parallel them here or you can connect them in Split phase and just put 240 out so if you got two of these and just rolled them up and connect them and spit phase and did all that kind of fun stuff you'd have portable 240 okay but I don't have no need for that so we didn't do it okay so that being said let's talk about uh the connections that need to be made and you can make these Connections in less than 5 minutes okay so first of all these two cables that are coming out or into this inverter uh it's a positive and negative these two cables come with the inverter when you purchase it they're already crimped um and they have ferals on them so it's literally stick it in screw it in you're good to go okay these two right here are for your solar input uh positive and negative I used to have mc4 pigtails connected here but I found myself not using them as much they just kind of kept dangling around so I just remove them but if for whatever reason I need to put this outside and use it I can just connect the thing here and in under 30 seconds I could have mc4 connected to this solar power in no problem uh these two right here are for your AC output so uh AC output the uh black is obviously hot this white is neutral uh there's ground here this red cable coming out of here is just to connect the grounds to the case mainly because on the manual it says connect the ground of the AC output to this grounding screw right here not sure why they couldn't put it in here but for whatever reason that's what it says so that's what's happening uh these three right here are for your AC input and if you don't plan on charging this from the wall then you don't need to worry about this but pretty much it's a ground uh neutral here and then hot here and it's connected pretty much to an outlet that's down here that you can just plug an extension cord into so if you don't need that then you don't need to connect this but if you want to just connect an extension cord just connect that okay so with that being said since we're talking about the connections here I'm going to go ahead and say if you're going to BU build this or work on this at any time you want to make sure it's off because these are not isolated so if one thing is on or power into one source you're probably going to shock yourself or it's a big Hazard so make sure every single source is off solar uh input input AC input obviously the inverter needs to be off all that kind of stuff so with that being said that's what's going in on here this is the case you can put it back on here um and put it on here but I'm not going to do that mainly because I'll probably show you a little bit more stuff okay so uh this uh inverter is attached to this um uh Box by three screws um I put pretty much used used Riv nuts and Riv nutted um the box here uh one screw right here and two on the top pretty much the same way using a washer and then I also Ed hot glue to hold it down for a little bit um as I lexel the bottom of this inverter to this case Okay so uh this inverter isn't going anywhere uh main reason for the extra glue is mainly because we're talking about Riv nuts and plastic and that's not going to hold up that well even if it's glass reinforced toolbox plastic it's just not super strong so with the com combination of the riv nuts and the lexel adhesive this ain't going anywhere okay with that being said you just go ahead and drill three holes here to pass the cables in and then we'll go ahead and show you what's actually going in on here so in order to open it up open it up open it up and you can actually just lift this right so if you look here um we'll talk about the the cables since we did talk about that earlier so the cables I actually just started using a lot of the holes that are already in the Box um so this hole right here so this hole right I could put pass a cable through there and this right here is where the cable is passing in through uh the only one I didn't use a hole for that is this um AC power input cable mainly because I wanted to use a um or or this right here which is the uh battery input cable to the inverter um I didn't do that many because these there's just not enough big holes right where I wanted them to on this side of the box to do that so I just drill an extra hole here and just put one of those rubber uh waterproof grommets here to hold that in and it seems to work fine but um if you didn't need anything that big then you don't have to do that obviously you can see the rib nuts in there I've glued them down also reinforce them with that if I could redo it again I would literally just put a washer there and help glue that down cuz that will just reinforce it a little bit more okay so as we're looking at this let's look at the layout okay so obviously uh there's a battery right here we'll talk about that in a second but the battery fits in here almost perfectly uh the battery fits in here and it stretches the box out a little bit but it's nowhere nearly as bad so that it's unusable it works actually just perfectly fine and because it's so tight in here it doesn't actually go anywhere okay um and you don't have to worry about it sliding backwards mainly because there's a wheel here and the wheel well Inside the Box prevents the battery from sliding backwards okay so um the reason I say it fits in here perfectly is because it's snug and there's space on both sides so that you don't have to worry about any components or wires or anything like that being crushed as you can see right here right as I close this all these wires that are passing through this lid just fit into this crevice here and there's no uh you know no compression no wires being Tangled nothing's being smashed any of that it fits in perfectly so this red wire comes in here it goes along this side and connects to the breaker that's here I'll show you that in a second and the breaker connects to this battery okay so now that we kind of figured out the layout and the wiring let's talk about this battery so this battery is an eg4 um 48 volt 100 amp battery I believe or something like that pretty much it's a 5 KW hour battery it's a completely sealed waterproof battery and I think if you want to buy it new or something like that it's roughly around like 15,600 bucks but if you buy it right now or anytime I go look at it it seems to be there's a refurbished unit for under $1,200 I think it's like 1136 or something like that you could buy this waterproof 48 vol 5 KW hour battery um for under $112,000 or $1,200 which is actually pretty good and then like I said everything you need to connect this stuff up like this wiring comes with this inverter with the crimps and the lugs and everything already on there so you don't have to worry about anything just go here connect the uh let's say two cables there uh maybe one or two on the breaker and then you're good to go the breaker also comes with the inverter when you purchase it okay so with that being said let's go ahead and just put this down see if I just put this down here I can close this here all right so let's go take a look at the breaker this right here is a nater DC r breaker and this breaker like I mentioned comes with the uh inverter when you purchase it the inverter comes with cables uh a Wi-Fi adapter dongle uh ethernet RS cables and all this kind of fun stuff including this breaker so all you really need to do is take a small little tool like an oscillating tool just cut out the front of this breaker put the breaker in there and then you know just glue it in there uh this right here is really just I think it's like hot glue you could use theep poxy glue if you wanted to but it works pretty well and this um wire the positive wire going through this breaker completely breaks the circuit between the inverter and the battery so it just becomes completely safe okay and uh being its positioned and protected by this wheel well there's no way that breaker is getting crushed or damaged by the battery all right so as we're on the side this right here is just two power strips you can just pick up at your local Home Depot Walmart whatever um I just used two old ones that I had laying around and the reason I use two of them is mainly because each power strip is roughly rated for 15 amps so so both of them combined going into the inverter you can pull roughly about 30 amps at 120 watt or 20 volts out of it that way not overloading any power strip okay um and that's pretty much all you really need you can build this thing in under 15 minutes all right and that's how you build this inverter like I said you can build this thing in under 15 minutes and it works perfectly okay uh there's going to be a bunch of Clips at the end of it being used and powering a bunch of stuff but uh the easiest way to put it is this thing will power pretty much almost anything and for whatever reason you can't power whatever device it is just buy a soft starter like an inline soft starter thing connect it here and you're good to go okay but for me it's powered um a 12-in minor saw 10-in minor saw compressor heat gun all kinds of stuff so this thing will power pretty much anything and you'll be good to go for a long time okay and for whatever reason you're in a power outage uh situation just connect up solar here connected here and you're going to go pretty much all day considering you have enough solar okay so let's go ahead and fig figure out how to turn it on it's actually quite simple turn it on you take this breaker flip that there you go ahead come here turn this power switch on right inverter poers up no problem all right so at this point you can go ahead and plug stuff in here turn it on and everything's good to go um if it overloads it'll say it's overloading you can look at the screen here and tell you how much it's actually drawing out and kind of fun stuff but this is probably the easiest most convenient portable power solution for the money uh currently on the market okay so the uh question that's going to come up is well I don't really want to put that together it looks janky whatever okay that's fine but if you have the money to go buy a let's just say a uh ecoflow Delta Pro which is can put out 3600 Watts continuous but only has a 3600 WTH hour battery then you can go ahead and buy that for more than the cost of this which like I said I think the retail of that is roughly around $3,600 but you could probably get it on sale if I had to guess somewhere around 3,000 or 28 or something like that I don't remember um maybe it's $2,600 the point is that that thing is pretty expensive um even if it's $2,600 um still pretty expensive but this solution here 15 minutes uh buy a few things from signature solar currently with the free shipping uh you don't even have to pay for shipping and you could put it together 15 minutes $2,000 and you'll be good to go and more capacity uh more input um right now this unit can take 5,000 WS of solar coming into the unit um and it can also scale out meaning if you need more just build another one of these connect them in parallel and you're good to go so right now I believe this is the best easiest solution bang for the buck uh especially it's form factor I definitely like this better than like a big cart even a like work cart right or even a moving hand truck right those things if you're going to try to fit in the car could be a little bit difficult but this you can easily just put it in the back of any small compact car and you'll be good okay so um you know there's other Solutions out there that may be good uh some of them may be more expensive and if that fits your bill go do that if not feel free to build this okay so hope this video helped you guys out and we'll see you guys next time a