1000 watt Yamaha generator?
I had an Alpenlite fifth wheel and got a Yamaha 1000 watt inverter generator when I needed a new convertor, I put in a 45 amp convertor thinking that it would be handled nicely in the rare instance wh...
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MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Hmmm and I assume because you are powering them by generator they might be a different animal durability wise. I need to check this out further. Thank you...
EDIT--I am not clear on whether the charger ramps up the amps in the beginning or if it is the battery bank accepting more and more at first. My PowerMax chargers do some of that ramping up to their max too. The 100 amper shows about 93a at first and then winds up to about 103a within a minute or so and stays there for the Bulk stage. If it is the battery bank doing that, then the in-rush reduction idea would be wrong.
Yes in the photo all are on at once adding the amps shown to near 130a on the Honda 3000. (maxes out the H3000 with all those non-PF corrected chargers) Battery bank accepted all amps constant for a while then started to taper the total amps. Eventually the 14.6v 20 and 35 ampers got down to their FULs and left the 14.8v 40 amper going still at 40.4 and then it started to taper until it got down to my idea of the bank being at 90% and I shut it down.
I had to start the 20 and 35s first then the 40. If I had the 40 going first the others would not start (because at 14.6 instead of 14.8 I presume)
I have run the 14.8 40 amper in parallel with my PF corrected PowerMax ADJ 100 amper mset to 14.8 to get 140 amps no problem, and also the 100ADJ and a 55ADJ for 155 amps (and with 10 amps of solar on top of that on a thirsty battery bank, I saw 165 amps on the Trimetric)
So you can do more VA on the Honda with PF correction to get more DC amps out for sure. Unfortunately PF correction is not common with RV converters and chargers.
