bighatnohorse wrote:
Before you all go. . .drain the gas and fill it with Top Tier high octane gas.
Its not hard and pretty straight forward.
For what its worth, I always use high octane gas in all small engines and never have a problem. Longest non-use time period was two years for a small engine weed wacker and it still started and ran.
I haven't given up yet, but need to re-group and review what has come up in this thread.
I am not happy with the idea the converter requires more VA as the battery voltage rises, for instance. I can test for that over a longer recharge time from a lower SOC.
Also my AGMs have a higher voltage per SOC than my previous Flooded bank did when I first took the Kill-A-Watt measurements for this 75 amper from my Honda 3000. Now a different gen and with AGMs, but same converter. More work needed on all that.
I can still try to reduce the load by using a lower gauge wire from gen to converter. Now using #12, but can rig a shorter #10
I didn't try a small resistive load to go with an inductive load as was suggested. I saw that same trick in my old Vector MSW inverter's manual as a suggestion for if it is struggling with an inductive load.
Problem there might be it just adds more load. I think the issue now is the load is just over, so we are playing with small amounts whether the red flashing light comes on or not.
And yes, I still have not tried higher octane gas or synthetic oil.
Have to arrange testing these in a way that is one at a time so if it does work, I can tell what did it. Anyway, it is not all going to happen in the next five minutes, so I will be back sometime if I have anything to report.
