Indoor trainer non ac power supply

[Anthony Merredew]

Looking for knowledge or experience on powering indoor trainers with battery, ups , solar and devices such as ecoflow.

 

Power failures and load shedding is stopping the legs from turning and thats never a good thing.

Any info would be appreciated 

[Sprockets]

ecoflow will power the trainer no problem - just factor in screens and fans alongside the trainer

[Anthony Merredew]

Which ecoflow for a kickr core and how does the calculations work.

Could settle for just phone and router with kickr core instead of tv as normal.

[ChrisF]

7 minutes ago, Sprockets said:

ecoflow will power the trainer no problem - just factor in screens and fans alongside the trainer

 

Last I tested this, the fan used more power than all the other items combined.

 

The rest can easily run of any of the standard battery trolley units.

 

 

PS - there is a thread about this ...

Edited October 16 by ChrisF

[Anthony Merredew]

When you tested it what wattage did you reach and did you use erg more? 

Was it in the region of 300 w.

Would be great to warm up for races using an ecoflow, what a pleasure.

 

Didnt find any other threads about this topic within 3 pages of topics.

 

Thanks so far for responses

[shaper]

 

[Anthony Merredew]

Found it aswell via google search thanks

 

Seems like the smaller pps will work just fine 

[ChrisF]

 

[madmarc]

So the stepdown box on the power cable delivers 12V - 5 amps to the trainer

During loadshedding (seems so long ago 😁) I used an ultralan 17.8 Ah small ups off TakeAlotOfMYMoney, highest output it had was 12V - 3 amps which worked fine and was doing 1hr30 to 1hr45 sessions on Kickr Core and still had 50% capacity left when i finished

I'm no lectric fundi but the trainers consumes 5 amps per hour max. I read somewhere its consumption is based on the resistance which is always fluctutating but because the original power box only delivers 5 amps i figured well that must be the max so used that to size the UPS for 2 hr training session. 2 hrs will mean a 10Ah UPS more or less.

Worked for me 🤘

[mecheng89]

I use an Ecoflow with 800W power and it works just fine.