Magnum inverter, Yamaha Generator
For anyone that is curious... A recent thread came up about about abnormal charging from a Magnum inverter, using a Yamaha generator as the AC input. My Magnum is a Magnasine MS2812, software versi...
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FWIW, I agree with the High-Fivers that the claims made in the Magnum manual sound like a lot of Extra Special Voodoo (ESV). However, I read this manual also, and it goes into great detail about this feature (and its limitations). I've never seen it demoed, but I've been closely following P Tuna's posts about this and it appears to be real.
FWIW again, several years ago I was curious enough about the Victron Quattro and its similar claims that I called up the Victron USA sales rep, back in Mass or somewhere. I asked him about this, using simple terms like (p1 + p2) --OR-- (p1 or p2). He said no, the Victron can only REPLACE the power (possibly increasing it), NOT add to the existing power. There is no doubt in my mind that he understood the question, and that he was wrong about his own product, as the recent updates to the Victron manual make clear.
Regarding the limitations, it seems the most glaring is that if there is a sudden inrush of current demand, the sine and/or voltage of the shore power you're hoping to boost with the hybrid will become too problematic to "match" with boost. In this case it must fail over to pure inverted power, subject to the upper limits of inverted power.
So in that case problems may arise where your hybrid has a TOTAL campacity of 60 amps, but an inverter capacity of only 30 amps. If you have 30 amps of shore power but suddenly want 60 amps the hybrid may fail to supply that.
FWIW again, several years ago I was curious enough about the Victron Quattro and its similar claims that I called up the Victron USA sales rep, back in Mass or somewhere. I asked him about this, using simple terms like (p1 + p2) --OR-- (p1 or p2). He said no, the Victron can only REPLACE the power (possibly increasing it), NOT add to the existing power. There is no doubt in my mind that he understood the question, and that he was wrong about his own product, as the recent updates to the Victron manual make clear.
Regarding the limitations, it seems the most glaring is that if there is a sudden inrush of current demand, the sine and/or voltage of the shore power you're hoping to boost with the hybrid will become too problematic to "match" with boost. In this case it must fail over to pure inverted power, subject to the upper limits of inverted power.
So in that case problems may arise where your hybrid has a TOTAL campacity of 60 amps, but an inverter capacity of only 30 amps. If you have 30 amps of shore power but suddenly want 60 amps the hybrid may fail to supply that.
