3000W Chinese Gensets Info.
professor95 wrote: EDIT ADDED 45/5/2013- When this thread started in March of 2005, I never expected to see it survive this long or amass the quantity of information that has been shared here. In...
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Thanks for your patience. I am an electrical maroon. What caused me some confusion is the converter has a different setting to automatically limit/balance the charger current.
You set whatever amperage you want to go to the appliances, Say 20A on 30A shore power. The charger will get the current specified in the first setting we discussed, say 60A until the appliance load approaches the value set 20A.
As the appliances approach 20A, battery charging is scaled back to maintain 20A to the appliances at all times. At that point, the charger would have 10A @ 120V.
You could set this to zero if you wanted all power to the charger.
Sooo.... I was thinking (figure of speech) that the charging amps setting was to comply with the battery manufacturers recommended charging rate. I'll just set it around 60A and let the other setting decide how much actually goes to the charger.
You set whatever amperage you want to go to the appliances, Say 20A on 30A shore power. The charger will get the current specified in the first setting we discussed, say 60A until the appliance load approaches the value set 20A.
As the appliances approach 20A, battery charging is scaled back to maintain 20A to the appliances at all times. At that point, the charger would have 10A @ 120V.
You could set this to zero if you wanted all power to the charger.
Sooo.... I was thinking (figure of speech) that the charging amps setting was to comply with the battery manufacturers recommended charging rate. I'll just set it around 60A and let the other setting decide how much actually goes to the charger.
