Author: Jason Fitzpatrick / Source: reviewgeek.com
If you’re looking for a source of clean power that’s easy to use, will power nearly all your gadgets big and small, and works as well during a power outage as it does on a camping trip, the River Power Station is your mega-battery-pack dream come true.
The premise of EcoFlow’s River Power Station is really straight forward: take a huge lithium-ion battery, attach a bevy of ports to it with converters for both DC power (like a USB charger outputs) and AC power (like a wall socket outputs), wrap the whole thing up in a slick case with an easy to read display, throw in a pile of adapters for different kinds of charging, and, boom, you’ve got a use-anywhere Swiss Army knife of a battery pack that people can use for everything from working on their laptop when the power is out to charging their phones and Bluetooth speakers while camping. The end result is a high-yield power source that isn’t a generator—with the River there’s no noise, no gasoline and the accompanying exhaust, and you use it safely indoors or out.
That’s the kind of product pitch that seems too good to be true and, we’ll be totally honest: we really didn’t expect the River Power Station to deliver as thoroughly as it did. Let’s take a look at the specs of the device, how to use it, and the included (and optional) goodies so you can decide for yourself if this little energy-packed wonder is worth the $699 admission price. (Spoiler: if you’re the target audience for the River, we think you’ll find it’s worth it.)
Specs: Power, Plugs, and More
There’s very few people for which a $699 product is an impulse purchase so let’s dig right into what you get for your money.
The River is roughly the size of two shoe boxes stacked atop one another, sports a nice big handle on top, and weighs 11 pounds. If you want a rough frame of reference for that the feels like in your hand, a gallon of milk weighs ~8.5 pounds. The bulk of the weight, as you’d imagine, is the beefy lithium-ion battery inside that offers 114,000mAh (if you want to think in terms of how many times you can recharge your portable devices) or 412Wh (if you want think in terms of how long you can run an AC-powered device).
The front of the device features a large and clear LCD display panel four standard USB ports (two of them higher amperage Quick Charge ports), two USB-C ports, and two 12V DC ports. There’s also a power button that powers on the DC side of the device as well as toggles the display on and off.
The back of the device features a cooling vent, a power button to toggle the AC…
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