ECOWISE Voltage regulater fault UPDATE
UPDATE Repaired under warranty. Once I managed to contact the manufacturer things went well. They emailed me a prepaid shipping label, (I had to buy a shipping box) and shipped via Estafeta to Mexico ...
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pianotuna wrote:
Hi,
How many btu's is the heat pump? My air conditioner is 13,500.
Can you wire around the prosine easily?
Can't find anything in the heat pump specs about BTUs. It is listed as a 2 ton heap pump whatever that means.
I can bypass the Prosine easily but only by taking it completely out of circuit, which I don't want to do as that is my over/under voltage protection.
Also, the Sola Basic was very disappointing. I have taken it out of circuit. It bucks even when the incoming voltage is 125 and drops it to anywhere between 109 and 112 volts. When the compressor kicks in it is too slow to catch up with the voltage drop and the Inverter either inverts (165 amps from the batteries) or interrupts the power. Sometimes it starts the heatpump OK and then the voltage holds at 115 or so.
Even when line voltage is low it seldom boosts above 112VAC under minimum load though occasionally I have seen it at 117.
If the line voltage is low <108 it is sometimes too slow to boost and I get the same result as above.
The tech at Airxcel told me that the hard start capacitors may have failed due to low line voltage. I can't check them because it seems that when I had a body repair done to the rig they got paint into the piano hinge that allows be to lift up the side panel to access the heat pump. I have tapped, shake and pulled and spayed with Liquid Wrench to no avail. If I pull any harder it will tear the hinges out or bend the panel. Just crossing fingers now hoping that I don't burn out the heat pump, inverter, or or both. :E
