โSep-12-2015 12:11 PM
โSep-13-2015 03:07 AM
Cotay wrote:Veebyes wrote:
Did that a couple years ago. The 5er is now wired like a typical cruising boat. No more converter charger. Installed a pure sine wave 2000W inverter charger & a single 4D Lifeline AGM battery. The 4D battery has about the same AHs as a pair of 6Vs but without all of the addional linking cable.
With the inverter turned on ALL 110AC circuits are live so to prevent killing the battery in only a couple of hours the power hungry AC draws, water heater, fridge, microwave, air, are turned off at the circuit breaker panel. This leaves all outlets live.
How many amps is the charger in your inverter? I'm trying to decide on which inverter/charger and your experience would be helpful to know.
โSep-12-2015 09:49 PM
โSep-12-2015 09:17 PM
smkettner wrote:
You don't need 2000 watt inverter to run 200 watts of equipment.
400 watts of solar should make the 2x Honda 2000 about obsolete for battery charging.
If you need to run the air conditioner consider a Magnum or Victron hybrid inverter that will combine power with a single Honda and run the air just fine.
If you don't get the hybrid consider separate components to avoid replacing it all if one part fails.
โSep-12-2015 07:31 PM
โSep-12-2015 07:20 PM
Veebyes wrote:
Did that a couple years ago. The 5er is now wired like a typical cruising boat. No more converter charger. Installed a pure sine wave 2000W inverter charger & a single 4D Lifeline AGM battery. The 4D battery has about the same AHs as a pair of 6Vs but without all of the addional linking cable.
With the inverter turned on ALL 110AC circuits are live so to prevent killing the battery in only a couple of hours the power hungry AC draws, water heater, fridge, microwave, air, are turned off at the circuit breaker panel. This leaves all outlets live.
โSep-12-2015 06:16 PM
โSep-12-2015 01:26 PM
DrewE wrote:
The inverter/charger will power stuff directly just as the converter does. In both cases, they're connected in parallel with the battery, and on average will power the house loads (and reduce the charge rate to the battery) up to their current limitations. Of course, it's not really possible to tell exactly where any given electron came from, whether the battery or the charger/converter, even if you could identify them individually.
It should be a reasonable upgrade, I think. I would consider installing a 12V outlet for the CPAP machineโit would be more efficient than going via an inverter of any sort, and the installation isn't all that difficult. The hardest part is physically running a wire.
By the way, your battery bank is 300 Ah, not 300 mAhโperhaps that's just a typo. That's about 3.6 kWh total energy storage (at a nominal 12V), if those are easier units to work with.
โSep-12-2015 12:59 PM
โSep-12-2015 12:23 PM