<div dir="auto">Wrenches<div dir="auto">You may have answered you question here, "crappy genny" if the voltage or the freq is to far out or just very dirty AC, the inverter will as you discribed, keep attempting to connect but due to one of the issues can't maintain a connection.</div><div dir="auto">Jerry</div><div dir="auto">NABCEP Inspector</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 10:37 AM Dave Tedeyan <<a href="mailto:dtedeyan@taitem.com">dtedeyan@taitem.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi All, <div><br></div><div>I am going to service a system where the homeowner is telling me that their Conext SW4048 had been working fine for 14 months, and then all of a sudden recently stopped being able to charge the batteries from the generator. It is an off grid system. </div><div><br></div><div>The inverter would start charging the batteries, but then about a minute later they would hear a relay click and the charging would stop. Then it would just keep cycling. If they turned everything off for a while, they could then turn it back on and charge for maybe 10 minutes before it would start cycling. They just have a crappy 4kw generator from Harbor Freight.</div><div><br></div><div>I have not laid my own eyes on it yet, but will be there in the next day or two. Just wondering if anyone has experienced these symptoms and have a good idea of what to look for first.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div>-Dave<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><b><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Dave Tedeyan, PE</font></b></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Senior Engineer | Taitem Engineering, PC</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><img src="https://www.taitem.com/signatures/logo.png"><br></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">110 South Albany Street</font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"> | Ithaca, NY 14850</span></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">o. <u>607.277.1118 x121</u> f. 607.277.2119</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.taitem.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">www.taitem.com</a></font></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;line-height:14.2667px">Solar </span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;line-height:14.2667px">\u2022</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12.5pt;line-height:17.8333px"> </span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;line-height:14.2667px">Sustainability </span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;line-height:14.2667px">\u2022 </span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;line-height:14.2667px">Energy </span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;line-height:14.2667px">\u2022 </span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;line-height:14.2667px">Design</span><br></div><div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;line-height:14.2667px"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px">Certified B-Corporation since 2013</span><span style="font-size:13.3333px"><br></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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