[RE-wrenches] New Washer - Old Inverter

[Ray Walters]

117 vac is perfect output.  If the washing machine is having issues, it 
would be with the stepped waveform, not the voltage.  The old Trace had 
a pretty choppy "pure sine wave".  I had washers not run on the Trace 
SWs, and we were able to put a capacitor on the inverter output that 
fixed the problem.  Do a search of the RE archives though, because 
several others mentioned that the cap idea has potentially dangerous 
issues.  The Magnum 4024 is a good replacement, I put one in and kept 
the old APT power center on a system last year.

R.Ray Walters
CTO, RemoteSolar.com
Former Nabcep Certified PV Installer, 2004-2016
Licensed Master Electrician
Solar Design Engineer
303 505-8760

On 2/8/2017 12:10 PM, Lou Russo wrote:
> Aloha All,
>
> I have a client with a old Trace 4024 on a APT center. Everything has 
> worked great for over 20 years. He purchased a new washing machine 
> from Sears that does not want to work. The voltage at the outlet is 
> 117 vac and the Sears guy says that is the issue. When the system is 
> running on the genset (Northern Light 6kW Diesel) we get 121 vac and 
> the washer runs fine. That seems like a very tight voltage window and 
> a issue with the washer not the system. I have seen sensitive 
> electronics go wacky with no N-G bound maybe that is the issue? I did 
> not install the system so I would have go poke around. Any one out 
> there have any ideas?
>
>
> Aloha,
>
> Lou Russo
> lou at spreesolarsystems.com <mailto:lou at spreesolarsystems.com>
> 440 345 6762
> Spree Solar Systems LLC
> CT-34322
>
>
>
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