EcoFlow STREAM 5000

Cost

Price

£1,599

Price per kWh The unit on its own, divided by its capacity. No installation is included.

£318

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Battery

Battery chemistry LFP packs tolerate regular charging to 100%; NMC packs are usually happier kept below it.

LFP

Usable capacity What you can actually take out, which is less than the figure on the box.

5.02 kWh

Continuous output 3,000 W off grid. On the grid it runs at 800 W until an electrician commissions it for more.

3 kW

Warranted cycles

10,000 cycles

Can be added to Whether you can bolt on more capacity later.

Yes

Expands to Two STREAM Expansion Battery 5000 units, 5,024 Wh each at £1,299 down from £1,499, take one tower to 15 kWh. Linked to earlier STREAM units, EcoFlow claims 90 kWh across a house.

15 kWh

Solar input Four MPPTs, 1,250 W each, up to 60 V.

5 kW

Smart meter EcoFlow's own, or the co-branded EcoFlow and Shelly Pro 3EM.

Its own or Shelly

Home Assistant Community integrations only, running on EcoFlow's developer API: an access key and a trip through EcoFlow's servers, with nothing local. Both the 5000 and the AC 5000 are covered.

Community, cloud

UPS switchover How long the power is off for when the grid fails, before the battery picks the house back up. Under about 20 ms and a computer will not notice. Measured in seconds it is a backup supply rather than a UPS, and anything with a processor in it will have restarted.

0 ms

Noise EcoFlow quotes 30 dB at most across the 5000 series.

30 dB

Operating temperature EcoFlow derates the output above 35 °C and the charge below 0 °C.

-20 °C to 55 °C

Heats itself to charge Yes. The 5000 series brings the cells up to temperature below 10 °C so it can keep charging.

Yes

AC sockets Three-pin sockets on the unit itself, which is what you can run through a power cut without an electrician wiring anything to the house.

1

Bypass output The most here, and 600 W more than the battery alone will give.

3.6 kW

Charging

Weather rating The IP rating: the first digit is how well it keeps dust out, the second water. Below IP65 it wants to be indoors. Ranked as the higher number, though strictly a 7 is an immersion test where a 6 is a jets test, so one does not always include the other.

IP65

Warranty

10 years

Ethernet port None. There is a CAN bus for talking to its own expansion batteries, which is not the same thing.

No

Wi-Fi

Yes

Bluetooth

Yes

Dimensions

Length

298 mm

Width EcoFlow lists 295 by 489 by 298 mm without saying which is which. Recorded width, height then depth.

295 mm

Height

489 mm

Weight Empty

45.4 kg

Tech

App

Yes