How much should a converter put out?
Bought new batteries. Before I install them and I need to confirm which cable is pos and neg. So I plugged into 110 A/C and with a volt meter probe at cable ends. I'm getting a reading of 17.3...
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Found the culprit!!! Working backwards from the lugs on converter to batteries and found a thing called "Shortstop" with little black button on top. It is a resettable relay type thing. I mashed the reset button in and still no elec to converter. Bypassed or jumped around it with a volt tester in continuity mode and I did enjoy the sound of buzzard in tester. I took apart the "shortstop" not much to them. Little spring wrapped around that makes plunger go out when out of spec I guess. Going to pick up 2 of them. For now just put in a different "type" but 40 amps to test system and all is good. Still a little bit nervious and fuses just don't pop for no reason. I'm thinking it popped because of batteries just sitting there getting drawn down to nothing.
The raccoons were visiting when taking pic's but they ran when they heard I was working on elec. "The Mighty Majestic" is up and running (again).
After reading about Parallax I will upgrade to PD, but few other projects got to come first.
http://www.wiringproducts.com/bussmann-short-stop-circuit-breakers
Found the culprit!!! Working backwards from the lugs on converter to batteries and found a thing called "Shortstop" with little black button on top. It is a resettable relay type thing. I mashed the reset button in and still no elec to converter. Bypassed or jumped around it with a volt tester in continuity mode and I did enjoy the sound of buzzard in tester. I took apart the "shortstop" not much to them. Little spring wrapped around that makes plunger go out when out of spec I guess. Going to pick up 2 of them. For now just put in a different "type" but 40 amps to test system and all is good. Still a little bit nervious and fuses just don't pop for no reason. I'm thinking it popped because of batteries just sitting there getting drawn down to nothing.
The raccoons were visiting when taking pic's but they ran when they heard I was working on elec. "The Mighty Majestic" is up and running (again).
After reading about Parallax I will upgrade to PD, but few other projects got to come first.
http://www.wiringproducts.com/bussmann-short-stop-circuit-breakers
