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<font face="Arial">Wrenchers and Wrenchettes,<br>
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A customer has a husq. 5500 generator and an Outback inverter.
His lights flicker in the house when he's charging. Recently his
generator died and he's having it repaired next week. I think he
thinks the inverter is causing the problem. My understanding is
that some generators have less accurate voltage regulators than
others and the ones with the cheaper regulators have a hard time
regulating when connected to a non linear load such as a battery
charger. I don't have a way to look at the sine wave but I
suspect this is the problem here. <br>
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The trouble shooting I was planning was to take his (repaired)
generator and connect it to the inverter and put a 15 amp charging
load on the genny and turn on some lights. If they flicker, start
backing off on the charging amps and see if the flickering goes to
zero as the charging load on the genset goes to zero. The logic
here is that if we take the charging load out of the circuit and
the lights stop flickering and the genny stops surging, that what
we have is an AVR that doesn't like the battery charger as a load
and is "confused" by it. Would this be correct?<br>
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If it is a VR problem I think switching to a Honda EU series
inverter will solve the problem but customer doesn't want to buy a
new genny. I read a post in the archives regarding generator
compatibility and they recommended adding a resistive load when
the charger is running. I've also heard there was a way of
correcting compatibility problems with a capacitor. If this is
so, has anyone done it before and if so do you know the size and
type of cap I'd need and where I would connect it in the circuit?
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I called Outback Tech support and the person I talked to didn't
seem to really know what I was talking about. If I get this
resolved I'll probably forward the solution to Outback for their
FAQ's<br>
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Thanks for the assist - I appreciate it!<br>
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