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Rev. C board install help

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Posted by: @going-off-grid
12s ion is 44.4v nominal 50.4v full charge, you thing the lower voltage had a toll on the inverter ? I will have to tell you how it died soon it was probably my fault.

Nope, it'd just have a flat-topped sine wave under loads/low battery.  No issues or concerns there.

The issue with a low-voltage transformer config with a high voltage battery setup...is that the transformer current ratio does not change.  Efficiency starts to fall pretty rapidly, mostly due to the ferrites saturating--which starts slamming the FETs with brief deadshorts per cycle, etc., etc.


   
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at 60v you mean, it ran so good on 60v thats what I plan to use my 12k on as well is 60v :S


   
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also my fet temps where super low.


   
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also run my magnasine 4448 inverters at 60v 😄


   
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also my fet temps where super low.

That's a side effect of driving the FETs firmly and cleanly.  We haven't had any overheated FET failures on GS inverters--no, they generally either work perfectly or explode!  It's actually pretty amazing how cool the FETs run in the GS12...they barely need any fan cooling at full load.

 

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at 60v you mean, it ran so good on 60v thats what I plan to use my 12k on as well is 60v :S

With sufficient ferrite capacity (which there should be), that shouldn't be an issue.  What I'm referring to is running a 24v transformer spec at 48v...which would be the equivalent of running a 48v inverter at 96v.  Same ratio--but very different results!


   
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O OK I understand now thanks!


   
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