[RE-wrenches] Off grid DC Loads: DC Converter

[James Jefferson Jarvis]

Mean-Well DC DC converters work well.

You'll find you need a handful of them. Probably some 5 volt loads. And 
12 volt loads. And maybe a 19 volt.

The Mean-Well SD series will adjust slightly out of their rated range. 
So if the specs state it will adjust down to 19 volts, you can probably 
get to 18.

You will, of course, also need a LVD for your DC loads.

150 watts sounds like an awful lot. My off grid house with fridge, all 
the wall warts for various devices, TV, Amazon FireTV box, two or three 
ethernet switches, DSL modem, router, wireless access point, inverter 
idle current, all kinds of monitoring boxes, web cam, GFI and AFCI 
outlets, water softener, microwave, cordless phones, USB outlets, VOIP 
gateway, etc etc ... was about 150 watts. Maybe you can get them to turn 
off all of the non-essential loads.

On 1/15/2018 2:32 PM, Daniel Young wrote:
> Hello Wrenches,
> 
> I have a client that is running into an issue with his off grid system. 
> The system is 3yrs old and they are starting to notice their AGM battery 
> bank is loosing capacity, in reality they are noticing the generator is 
> triggering more often. They want to try to lower the frequency of the 
> generator triggering if possible.

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