[RE-wrenches] Magnum inverter issue

[Jay]

Hi Louis

Again, magnum admitted to the issue, gave no fix. 

I checked with RE-Wrenches as someone might have figured a work around. 

Jay

> On Dec 12, 2018, at 8:11 PM, <louis at solarcowboyz.com> <louis at solarcowboyz.com> wrote:
> 
> Jay,
> 
> I have not seen this, yet.
> If you go into the Magnums remote and look at AC meter does the meter reflect what your are seeing on your volt meter?
> (I am guessing that you see this on your volt meter)
> 
> If this is a "AC coupling feature" then the user should be able to enable this for AC coupling and disable if not.
> The factory setting should be disabled.
> 
> If this is a real feature and the user can not enable/disable I think it was not thought out well.
> 
> Louis.
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [RE-wrenches] Magnum inverter issue
> From: Jay <jay.peltz at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, December 12, 2018 6:14 pm
> To: re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I’ve had the following issue with a new PAE 4024. 
> 
> It’s ac voltage will rise and fall about 10+ volts ( 124-115) over about 10 seconds like clock work. Regardless of the load, or battery SOC/voltage. 
> I checked with a local shop, they also have the issue. They checked all their back stock and they all did the same thing. However they had an older one, say 6 months old that didn’t do it. Nor do any of my previous magnum installs do this. 
> 
> Clients are not too thrilled with this as lights go up and down in brightness. 
> 
> Magnum’s response was that this is normal for an off grid inverter and that somehow this “feature” has to do with it being able to AC couple better. 
> 
> I’m writing to ask if others have seen this as well and more importantly if anyone has a fix?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jay
> Peltz Power
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