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Re: Tire rotation with duals
chinrv wrote: I've asked this before on other threads, but no answers. For those of you that have installed the Dually or Borg valves, how does the tire store balance those particular wheels with the long valve stems? In my case at Discount Tire, they just treated the wheels the same as with standard stems, using their standard spin balance machine. The only added risk I saw is that it's easy to accidentally whack the long stem with one of the tools when mounting and dismounting a tire. One of my stems died an early death from this.754Views0likes0CommentsRe: Paralleling Yamaha 4500W and Honda 2000W
LittleBill wrote: why was the lights changing? was the voltage all over the place? i would think when they sync, voltage and hertz would sync i personally think it will either work, or go into overload and protect the inverter. Naturally the voltage would have to be changing for the lights to vary in brightness. The Outback inverter was running off of battery and can change its contribution to the output instantly. The Honda has a ramp-up/ramp-down delay. I'm "assuming" the two devices were in a slow oscillation loop trading off which one carried most of the load. The Outback's output is around 122 volts steady, the Honda's is 128 volts under lighter loads, ramping down to 120 as the load gets heavy. When the Outback inverter sees a higher voltage than it's producing its bi-directional H-bridge turns into an unregulated battery charger. When I realized I had the outputs cross-connected, I broke the connection without any investigation. A couple of factors here aren't present with generators only.604Views0likes0CommentsRe: Paralleling Yamaha 4500W and Honda 2000W
My best hopefully educated guess, taking absolutely no responsibility if anything is damaged: 1. They will sync. 2. Because of the different design voltages, the Honda will carry all of the load, up to and possibly past its rated continuous load, before the Yamaha begins picking up any of the load. I wouldn't try it myself unless the value of knowing what happens is more that the cost of at least one new inverter. As a comment, I have accidentally paralleled my eu2000i with an Outback inverter (during a power outage). Nothing broke, and it took me a while of watching the lights in the house changing brightness until I figured out what was happening.602Views0likes0CommentsRe: Champion voltage fluctuation
LittleBill wrote: actually it appears roys photo's are wrong, that is not a Honda sine wave on the top, not sure. link below has a sine wave capture of a honda I'll agree. My eu2000i output isn't anywhere that dirty looking. Edit: Guess it got fixed. The referenced eu2000i photo looks fine now.516Views0likes0CommentsRe: Running Two 20A loads from a single breaker
dougrainer wrote: MOST RV'ers have NO clue. I am on the Sales/Service side of the RV. You have no idea how many times customers come in with complaints about overloading their 30 amp RV. Get the 50 amp service and then just use a 50 to 30 adapter with a 30 amp extension cord. It is BETTER to have MORE power to utilize than to NOT have that extra power and then grumble about it. Doug I understand what you're saying and reluctantly accept it. I can't understand how RV'ers don't get it. It's not any more complicated than water tanks hold so many gallons, gas tank holds so much and you can go so many miles, etc. As I type this, it hits me that the examples I'm using all have gauges (sorry as they are for the water tanks). Maybe if the RVs came with a few electrical meters people would "get it" instead of being in the dark.404Views0likes0CommentsRe: protection for car
Waste of time and money towed 40,000 miles in the past 5 years no problems with the Honda or the newer Jeep Why assume others will have the same result as you? On our first trip with the short overhang motorhome and a low to the ground car, there were hundreds of paint dings in the car's lower fascia. Protect-a-tow has mostly solved the problem except for occasional "leakers" at the edges.154Views0likes0CommentsRe: Running Two 20A loads from a single breaker
In todays market with the multitude of 120 appliances, RVer's should NEVER buy a 30 amp RV, they should insist on the 50 amp RV. Just opinion here. I get along just fine with 30 amps and would rather not wrestle with the heavier shore cord. I've got a 50 amp cord for backup generator power in the house, and it's a beast compared to the 30 amp cord.405Views0likes0Comments
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