Westinghouse i4500 Generator
I posted a few weeks ago about trying to run my AC with a Yamaha 2k genny and Magnum 3000W boost inverter. Sort summary - the Yamaha just wasn’t strong enough with surges to work. So now I’ve pur...
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Itinerant1- no, I don’t have soft starts. That may be in my future, but-
* I can start and run an AC fine using batteries and Magnum alone, static current draw ~180A with sundry other draws
* Magnum doesn’t appear to be playing well with my generator (now 2 generators)
* i4500 should have plenty of guts to start the AC but the Magnum kicks it out and doesn’t let it bring AC up on own
* If I put magnum in load support, or start on Magnum and then try and bring genny in, it Overload Faults and indicates about 400A draw
******Occasionally I have started AC with inverter off and with inverter in load support by playing combinations of manually soft starting, varying VDCO, dropout voltage, etc but it’s’hit and miss’ with success ~10% at best
I have a call in to Magnum tech support, I really think there’s an issue with the way it ‘qualifies’ the incoming power and/or sync’s with it.
* I can start and run an AC fine using batteries and Magnum alone, static current draw ~180A with sundry other draws
* Magnum doesn’t appear to be playing well with my generator (now 2 generators)
* i4500 should have plenty of guts to start the AC but the Magnum kicks it out and doesn’t let it bring AC up on own
* If I put magnum in load support, or start on Magnum and then try and bring genny in, it Overload Faults and indicates about 400A draw
******Occasionally I have started AC with inverter off and with inverter in load support by playing combinations of manually soft starting, varying VDCO, dropout voltage, etc but it’s’hit and miss’ with success ~10% at best
I have a call in to Magnum tech support, I really think there’s an issue with the way it ‘qualifies’ the incoming power and/or sync’s with it.
