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Joel_T
Explorer
Oct 12, 2015

EMS units are recommended for use with commercial power only

Commercial power being a campground pedestal, house or a general "grid" type power source. I think they're (Progressive Industries)OK with generators as long as they're ground/neutral bonded and put o...
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otrfun
Explorer II
Oct 12, 2015
Wow, I'm surprised about all the concern about this issue. Are there any confirmed failures caused by using a PSW inverter or inverter generator with a PI EMS?

Before I ran any non-commercial power sources thru my EMS I viewed the waveforms under no/full load first. They looked fine. Ideally I would have checked distortion with a distortion analyzer, but don't own one.

Again, no issues with my PI EMS after 2 years.

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