Electrical interference from SW2512 [RE-wrenches]

Kirk Herander, VT Solar vtsolar1 at together.net
Mon Jan 22 07:10:26 PST 2001


Windy,

I have a customer whose microwave oven will not turn on when their TV is
on. The house is running off a SW4024. Could this(and your pump problem)
be related to the TRACE waveform having a varying "staircase" under
different loads instead of interference?

Kirk

"Windy Dankoff, Dankoff Solar" wrote:

> Here's a mystery.
>
> We have a customer with a Trace SW2512, and one of our SunRise pumps
> with the battery system controller (which steps the voltage up, along
> with control functions).
>
> Whenever his inverter is under a load of more than about 400 watts,
> his pump won't start (the controller freaks out). Besides being most
> ungraceful, his pump is in pressure-demand mode, and this happens
> while running the washing machine. We sent him a big filter capacitor
> to put accross the input, but no result.
>
> Nobody else has reported any problem like this.
>
> Has anybody had DC electronic loads go nuts caused by an SW inverter
> on the line?
>
> Windy
>
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