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TVDAD
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, April 16, 2005 - 10:34 pm: | |
Do I take the feed from the battery or from the equalizer |
James Maxwell (Jmaxwell)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, April 16, 2005 - 11:58 pm: | |
Directly from the batteries, which should be less than 6-8' away ideally. The closer the better but not side by side and never directly above them. Be sure to size the wire accordingly. Inverter should also have very good ventilation with protection from the elements and dust. Cabling to an equalizer is generally far to small for most inverters, except for perhaps very small ones. |
Jerry Liebler (Jerry_liebler)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, April 17, 2005 - 12:04 am: | |
What bus?
What inverter?
What equalizer?
If you have an equalizer, the bus is a 24 volt system. If the inverter is 24 volt feed it from the battery. If the inverter requires 12 volts it'll have to come from the equalizer but most of them are only good for 60 amps or less which means the inverter can only deliver about 700 watts or less.
Regards
Jerry 4107 1120 |
Stephen Fessenden (Sffess)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, April 17, 2005 - 8:27 pm: | |
Jerry you still take the feed direct from the battery even if you are using the 12 volt terminal of a 24 volt system. An equalizer is installed in parallel with the battery cables and should have nothing attached to it but the batteries. All loads are wired to the batteries. The equalizer, working in parallel, tries to keep up with any unequal draw from the 12 volt terminal. |
John that newguy
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, April 17, 2005 - 8:55 pm: | |
Aren't you guys confusing equalizers with isolators?
"battery equalizers allow operation of 12-volt loads on a
24-volt DC system.
Isolators allow dual battery systems to be charged from a charging
source while preventing one battery from discharging the other. "
http://www.oksolar.com/abc/inverters_vanner.htm
Equalizer hook-up schematic:
http://www.vanner.com/pdf/bul-0033.pdf
Still not known.... is it a 12 or 24v inverter? |
James Maxwell (Jmaxwell)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, April 17, 2005 - 11:34 pm: | |
I'm talking what he asked, where to get the power for an inverter, from the batteries or the equalizer. I saw no mention of an isolator, although he may have one of those also. Given that he states that he has an equalizer, I have to presume he has a 24 volt battery bank and I make the further logical presumption that he matched voltages of the inverter to the battery bank. If he did not, then he is in for more trouble than he would want us discussing, since the equalizer would never keep up with the load of an inverter that is center tapped. |
technot
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, April 18, 2005 - 2:31 pm: | |
Hmm, I don't follow your logical presumtion, James.
Appears to me he has a 24v coach (hence the equalizer) and a 12v inverter (hence the confusion of where to connect), and only has a bus battery, no house battery.
I do agree with your conclusion, though.... he's in for more trouble. |
James Maxwell (Jmaxwell)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, April 18, 2005 - 11:31 pm: | |
Tech: You presume the worst, he certainly does not state the voltage of the inverter or the battery bank arrangement, at least I didn't see it. I gave him the benefit of the doubt and i suppose I made my presumptions on that. I don't know, he may be confusing an isolator for an equalizer, which makes my 1st assumption wrong also. |