inverter

  1. M

    PSCC from canal boat inverter

    I am soon to be helping a friend with his electrics on his canal boat, he is looking at putting a small consumer unit, with a circuit for sockets and another for lights and upgrades to sockets wiring etc etc All sounds easy enough but I am wondering how to select the correct short circuit...
  2. K

    Grounding a 1500 watt inverter

    I'll cut to the chase - bought a 1500 watt pure sine wave inverter, which has a small screw and a nut coming out of the chassis labeled "ground", and they provide an associated 12 inch wire, ring at one end, that I can of course attach and tighten down to this exterior screw. The other end of...
  3. S

    Inverter blowing fuses?

    My grandfather has solar panels as well as a battery pack for them. I have noticed however that its very common for fuses to blow in his house particularly quick blow fuses much more common than elsewhere also his voltage seems to be 220v which to me seems rather low. Should he be worried and...
  4. R

    Solar Aurora inverter issue

    Newby from Tasmania. After replacing failed Zetter a/c relay following 031, a quick, cheap and simple operation, there is now an intermittent 013 fault indicating Wrong Mode. Sometimes inverter operates for hours without failure sometimes only a few seconds. During the automatic restart...
  5. N

    Solar Inverter

    Nelson by name.wish to ask if it advisable to ground the neutral of a 3kw Inverter on a distribution line of 500m in a rural area.
  6. marconi

    Reliability of LPG Honda Suitcase Inverter Generators

    I have been working on an off grid application using PV panels and an inverter-charger-battery to power small mobile installations. The client understood that because of the available space, the area devoted to PV panels and volume available for battery would mean that in Autumn - Winter, the...
  7. Z

    Solar Panels vs Interter

    I want to purchase a 50kw 3 phase grid tied inverter(attached) for my bakery however out of the required 50kw panels required my roof top can only take about 30kw(97 x 330w panels) worth of panels. How will this affect the output performance of my inverter? Will it still work?
  8. T

    Help me with inverter vfd to 3 phase motor

    Ac power supply 440V Inverter - Input 380-480V 50/60hz 11.2A Output 0-480V 8.5A 6.8kva 3.7Kw 3 phase motor- 2.2kW 50Hz Should i use delta or star connection? newguytoelectricity
  9. J

    Inverter grounding

    Hello, can anyone please tell me why my 1500w inverter has an extra connection for an earth, and came with a rather thin earth cable? I figured that because the -ve from the inverter goes to the -ve on the leisure battery, which in turn is earthed back to the starter battery -ve, there is no...
  10. D

    Advice needed please for replacement inverter

    I have 16 245w (declared capacity 3.84kW) panels on a south facing unshaded roof on the south coast of England producing around 4200 kW-h a year for the last 7.5 years; I have had two inverters fail in that time, the first replaced under warranty (both Mastervolt SunMaster). I have no schematic...
  11. M

    Inverter earthing query

    I am looking at an Edcoa 2500 inverter which produces 230v pos to neg but half of that to earth. The installation is on a boat and the boat boiler is looking for 230v to earth. Can I bond the ac neutral to earth to acieve this? Thanks
  12. D

    Is there an inverter that fullfils these requirements ?

    Hi, I want an inverter which can give the consumer power from solar if available, second battery if there is power on it and at last from the grid BUT i am not interested to feed to the grid (not interested in getting an approval from the local energy company). I know there are hybrid inverters...
  13. S

    Mobile Barista at wits end!

    All I want to do is sell coffee!!! ... yet I have found myself stressing about power supply! I have a mobile coffee van. I'm done with using generators and so are many event/festival organisers who are now banning petrol/diesel from their sites. In an ideal world I would like a battery fed...
  14. Darrin Brand

    Inverter speed control help

    Can any one help ? Emerson command sk I've got a 3ph motor from a boilie making machine that has the above attached to it , I've reset the parameters to factory and input the motor parameters to the relevant fields but still can't get it to work , it's alternating between a tr01 fault or a...
  15. T

    Optimum setup of 2 strings on Solis RHI hybrid inverter

    Hi, We have a setup of 2 strings in series of Viridian panels, at present these go to the inverter which has dual mppt inputs so the strings are independent. The strings are slightly different, 7 x 250w clearline mono and 7 x 270w clearline poly. I have been looking at the settings in the Solis...
  16. J

    Circuit Breaker needed for Split Air-con with Inverter

    Hello all. I´m installing a new multi split Air Conditioning (Inverter Type) in my dwelling and I have to purchase all of the electrical parts needed for the installer. I am currently running a 63a Type-A RCCB and I was told by the electrician that I could use the Type-A with a 16a Type-C MCB...
  17. P

    Aurora Power One PVI 3600 Inverter

    We have one of these and whilst getting a 'clock fail' fail message for a while, we also had to keep powering it down and up again each morning to clear a GFI error, and to get it to start generating. We've replaced the battery with the help of aurora power one inverter -...
  18. S

    communication error on sonnen Macht inverter

    we are going out to see someone who had a sonnen macht 3kw inverter installed a few years ago. It is showing a 'communication error' and has stopped working for 2 days. I can't find any information on this inverter as i understand the company was dissolved in 2017 and we didn't install this so...
  19. C

    Protection to be used on a 5KW motor???

    Hi, I'm Dave and I was wandering if I could have help with something. If I were to wire a 5KW motor what means of protection should be incorporated into the inverter for compliance with BS 7671? Thanks! :)
  20. D

    single to 3 phase inverter

    Hi all. I need some direction to supplying power to an electric boiler that requires 3 phase. boiler output is 36kw. I have had a bit of a search on tinterweb and only motor supplies seem to be coming up. I'm assuming that the boiler has Three heaters and each needs it's own phase. If any of you...

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