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Uhm, what do I do with a gs inverter that been drop over two stories from a loading dock?
Send a photo of it?
That's the master inverter. "Logo vent" on the one side looks slightly bent, but nothing serious. I don't see anything obviously wrong.
The foam will be all broken up in the packaging; the factory hasn't made custom foam for us yet--probably because we keep tweaking the design.
The other one is fine, this one its must have been drop on its side, cause the bottem mounting is bent as well. and I think this is the master. not sure what you want me to do, I was going to break out my dc thing and slowly inch up on the voltage to make sure nothing is cooking. But, I figured I would get your take before proceeding.
Shawn might want to consider on getting some stock 1 by 1 wood and place onlg the bottem with some padding. and dang that front end is heavy.
Yeah, that sounds like a fair way to test it. You could start with 12 volts, if it's working, current should be ~135mA when powered on, and a loud buzzer (complaining about low battery voltage). This way it won't try to drive the FETs, you can make sure it's alive.
Then if you power cycle it up at 24v, it should start--or blow up 😉. Kinda no middle ground I'm afraid.
You think this inverter is heavy, you should try the 12kw 😉.
Okay, getting the dc out and putting it on 12v. wish me luck. . .
If it's working, apart from the beeper, the fans might also spin up at 12v. At power-on, it should run the fans to full throttle for a few seconds, then back off. I'm not sure if they'll actually run at 12v though.
Great news, the 12v test work, then I cranked it up near 28 and it fired up with no issue, now got it hooked to the power bank doing my washer and my two freezers at the moment, just to see if I can make it beg for a bisket. *laughs* Dang that thing pushes out air, its almost like a jet taking off.
Yes the fans kicked on even at plain 12v. surprised.
Dang that thing pushes out air, its almost like a jet taking off.
2 of our custom 250CFM fans, yeah, that's a bit of air.
Glad it's working for you. Probably not working up much of a sweat at all with your washing machine.
Once I get the new GS designs off to the PCB factory, then I'll get back to the code stuff, adding the local network features you need.
Well, I'm washing clothes, while having it run the two chest freezers, and cooking a Pizza with my air big old air cooker, got done with that now running the dish washer while enjoying my pizze. The fans kicked on and off ever so often for about 5 saeconds then shut off. I be watching my 12v bms and it showing output of 30a, some I'm guessing that means 30a 24v. and no, its not even struggeling, the PJ would have begged to be shot if I did what I just did. I'm not pushing ti too muich, watching the battery wires and such. the ones I built seemed to get a little warm. but, I don't have it all hooked up like it should any how, just four postive wire going to a bolt to the main wire that going to the inverter at the moment :P. the bolt getting a little bit hot, but thats cause I don't have it super tight, just want to see how things go and run low power things to draing the batts, the volt is staying around 25.99v when its under a 30a load and jumps back up to 26.46v when not much of a load.