ProSine 2.0 glitches [RE-wrenches]

[Ezra Auerbach, DragonSun Consulting]

I've never personally seen this issue of battery voltage going down
whilst charging.  I must add I only ran a ProSine for a couple of weeks
as a test bed.  My generator which is very old and beat ran the charger
well and I got lots of amps to my batteries - more than the generator
would deliver through my SW.  Also recently ran a VFX which also
delivered more charge amps from my old generator than the SW but did so
at some pass through power penalty.  I found that I needed to back off
the input amps from the generator as the VX charger sucked the generator
down to unacceptable limits of power quality passed through to the
house.  (p.s. Christopher - I really like most things about the VFX, and
would recommend highly it as one of a couple of good choices with
respect to off grid inverters.)   

Ezra 

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Freitas - OutBack Power
[mailto:cfreitas at outbackpower.com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 10:47 AM
To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
Subject: RE: ProSine 2.0 glitches [RE-wrenches]


CVSOLAR at aol.com wrote:
> Any more comments good or bad on the ProSine 2000 watt with charger?

One real issue to watch out for on the ProSine 2.0 is that the transfer 
switch is only 30 amps and the charger is completely backed off at 24 
amps of pass thru AC loads (80% of the max input breaker rating I 
guess).Then the inverter not only does not charge but it actually starts

consuming 5 amps DC from the battery.  The battery voltage drops even 
though the generator is running.     

Ezra/Roy - please verify this issue still occurs with the ProSine 2.0?

Christopher Freitas
OutBack Power Systems, Inc.
cfreitas at outbackpower.com  www.outbackpower.com
Tel 360 435 6030  Arlington WA USA

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