Just brought the battery back from a camping trip. I plugged it into AC and nothing happened. No charge after 24 hours. It appears to be charging after I unplug cord and plug it back and push the power button on but the screen times out and nothing happens. Any suggestions on what to do here?
@Chazzy You can try to charge EB3A via car or solar panel. If car charging or PV charging works, the AC charging cable may be defective.
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Check to see if the circuit breaker button needs to be reset (push it) which is located to the right of the AC input connector on your EB3A.
Is it already charged or is the eb3a too hot?
Not hot. But I think this is what happened. I discharged the battery completely while camping. Came home and attempted to recharge with AC cord and nothing happened. 24 hours later still no charge. So I tried to charge via DC plug using EcoFlow battery. Kept the AC plug intact and charged (DC) with the EcoFlow. Lo and behold it charged right up in a few hours. Once charged up, I plugged in the AC cord and the display lit up instantly to show state of charge (100%). So I think I’m good now. I think the problem was I depleted all power in the unit, so much so that the firmware was not functioning. Once I charged it via DC, it had enough power to run properly. Does this make sense?
makes total sense. Good troubleshooting on your end. I run my units to 0% often, but always try to re-charge as soon as possible. If you were in this situation in the future, I would recommend car charging on the trip home or charge it just a bit to get it off the 0% state of charge. This causes issues for a wide variety of manufacturers and models and I see a good amount of issues caused by running too low. The situation would be improved I think if the units had a lower SOC limit that was user adjustable so that the last 10% could be reserved so to speak.
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