Tripping breaker [RE-wrenches]

[Drake Chamberlin]

   I had a similar problem on an old Sun Tie, that

drove me nuts. The breakers on the unit wouldn't blow when the inverter was

switched on, although the breakers in the main box would, even though they were

rated at 20 amps compared to 15 amps in the unit (as I recall).



I turned out that the capacitors charging were the culprit.  The reason

the breakers in the box would blow, even though of higher rating, was that the

particular brand of breaker just happened to blow more quickly!  Tech

support theorized this.  When 30 amp breakers were used in the main box

with #10 wire to the inverter, all worked fine.



Drake 



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