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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Hi CR,
I could not get the voltage high enough to cause my sola basic to buck the voltage. I applied 130 volts (no load on the sola, other than a volt meter).
The boost is also different for me--with the Sola cutting in quite quickly before the compressor has even spun up to speed.
I would guess that whoever set your Sola up at the factory did not do their job correctly. I wonder if that is end user changeable? (if it is I'd move the 2nd layer of boost up to 104 volts from 100).
I could not get the voltage high enough to cause my sola basic to buck the voltage. I applied 130 volts (no load on the sola, other than a volt meter).
The boost is also different for me--with the Sola cutting in quite quickly before the compressor has even spun up to speed.
I would guess that whoever set your Sola up at the factory did not do their job correctly. I wonder if that is end user changeable? (if it is I'd move the 2nd layer of boost up to 104 volts from 100).
Canadian Rainbirds wrote:
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.
