SW+ Voltage Sag [RE-wrenches]

[Matt Tritt]

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Hiya Ray,

And to think that I just installed another DR. It's the one somewhat low
cost inverter I've never - well allmost never - had problems with; just keep
them away from the beach in Costa Rica!

Just to flog this dog absolutely to death, you can feel safe with the
Outbacks! If you remember my on-the-list discussion of some problems we had
with a quad stack a few months ago, we also had some issues arise - all of
which were completely and quickly resolved by OB at no cost to us (other
than a bunch of time and gas and getting yelled at by the customer). I think
it's safe to say that if this problem had been with X it's highly doubtful
that they would have sent an engineer over a thousand miles with a scope on
short notice to fix the problem.

This great service coupled with an actual sine wave, quiet operation, ease
of installation and the phase to phase power sharing feature sure made up my
mind! Plus they look so cool.

Fear not!

Matt T

-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Walters [mailto:ray at solarray.com] 
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 4:08 PM
To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
Subject: Re: SW+ Voltage Sag [RE-wrenches]


 

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>Hey Matt;

I tried like model # 00037 from Outback, Chris F. had hand delivered it as 
a demo unit to Dankoff.  We had some probs, and I just thought I'd wait 
till they got the bugs worked out. The SW+ has some good specs: 10,000 watt 
surge, 2,500 watt cont., 8 watt search mode, same old SW pyaramid wave 
form, and the price was way less than the old SW series.
My evaluation now is that:
  A.)search mode doesn't work below 16 watts in New Mexico. (Allan S. can't 
get his to search at 8 watts either)
B.) The high surge is available at the cost of power quality. I think the 
transformer is just too small and too high an impedance to surge to 10,000 
watts (or anything over 2,000 watts) without having a cheap generator like 
blip in power.
C.) The big AC lugs and wiring room are great, and the way it butts right 
up to the side of Outback's PSDC make it the easiest inverter I have ever 
wired.
D.) The manual is actually pretty good, somebody put alot of homework into 
updating it.
E.) Cost is good, I started pushing them instead of the DR series for my 
lower cost systems. (I'm with Frank F. though I still love the old beater 
DR series)

But If the Staber really can't run on the new SW +, I'm in trouble. I'll 
keep looking for other causes for this incompatability and report to the
group.

>   My question SHOULD have been: Why aren't you using Outbacks? ;-)
>
>   I think the problem
>is that the inverter is just too small for the job, but it should run a 
>Staber just fine. Unless it won't. See the previous paragraph.
>
>   Matt T
>   -

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