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rjsurfer
Explorer
Nov 22, 2015

Will laser heat sensor find inadequate battery cables?

Just curious if I can use one of those heat gun devices to detect inadequately sized battery cables and connection points in my solar system? I'm only getting 15 minutes of run time on my 1200watt ...
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2oldman
Explorer II
Nov 22, 2015
rjsurfer wrote:
The cables from the battery to the inverter are 2 gauge by the way,
That's too small for your setup. Didn't your inverter manual specify bigger cables?

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