Energy Management System
Hi all, The magic blue smoke has escaped from the lovely Magnum 3012 inverter/charger. I can live without load support. But I do want to be able to limit how many amps I draw as I'm often in ...
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But in that situation you can't use a normal charge converter, that how I cooked a wfco ( I plugged in an electric heater into the bedroom outlet on the pvr1250 )
Did not hurt the trip lite, but cooked the 100amp wfco
Converter chargers are not meant/designed to run full load constant mode (whether it is 15min or 45, therload always tapers when charging batteries)
On heavy double conversion the load doesn't tapper
For that to work without failure, the ac to DC conversion
You need a power supply some thing designed to carry a rated load continuously with out over heating and enough cooling space air flow
In my case both components where in the same compartment
The inverter was not damaged, the converter failed, different design considerations, the inverter was designed with commercial duty in mind
The converter was designed to feed a tapering load .. Batteries. The inverter powering the heater was constant, converter lasted about 45 minutes, I'm still using the tripplite inverter
This was not wfcos fault, when I did this back in march
This was mine, the WfCo is a converter charger not a continuos duty power supply
Did not hurt the trip lite, but cooked the 100amp wfco
Converter chargers are not meant/designed to run full load constant mode (whether it is 15min or 45, therload always tapers when charging batteries)
On heavy double conversion the load doesn't tapper
For that to work without failure, the ac to DC conversion
You need a power supply some thing designed to carry a rated load continuously with out over heating and enough cooling space air flow
In my case both components where in the same compartment
The inverter was not damaged, the converter failed, different design considerations, the inverter was designed with commercial duty in mind
The converter was designed to feed a tapering load .. Batteries. The inverter powering the heater was constant, converter lasted about 45 minutes, I'm still using the tripplite inverter
This was not wfcos fault, when I did this back in march
This was mine, the WfCo is a converter charger not a continuos duty power supply
