Tiger Charging Rate [RE-wrenches]
Travis Creswell
ozsolar at ipa.net
Sat Apr 22 15:50:26 PDT 2000
Wrenches,
I have on 500 Watt 12 volt tiger here in my shop set up on rolling cart to
use as a demo. It helps me to show my customers all the components of a
solar energy system. I have a Solar Boost 50 for a charge controller and I
have found it to work great. I have noticed that is actually losing
charging current at high states of charge as Steve Wiley mentioned. I still
think it is a great product. By the way has anyone else noticed that the
Solar Boost 50 instruction book shows wiring a negative and a positive to
the same shunt! I bet that had some interesting results for the person who
followed the picture exactly! I have used several of them since the came
out and the book still shows it that way. Also on the cart I have a
Trimetric 2020.
The tiger is rated at to have a 15 amp charger but I have found it to be
charging at over 27 amps and sometimes over 30 amps at lower voltages. Has
any else noticed this on other inverters?
It really is a 500 watt inverter. I've also noticed that is doesn't have
the ability to surge much over 500 watts. If you intend to run loads with
surges you better go with a UX series. The Tigers have a very poor ability
to surge.
Later,
Travis Creswell
Ozark Solar
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