Inverter low Volt Signal

Hey Jeff, are you watching this unfold mate???
Colin.

Yeh Colin
Watching but nothing new as yet.
I have tried most of the suggestions I reckon, no change.
Mine is a sealed type but pop rivets no screws, so I'll get to them with a drill and take a look inside with the sparky from work tomorrow and will let you know if it was fixable.

Regards Jeff M (SA)

Gday Derek

The circuit breaker is on a seperate wiring to the inverter, I just used that guage to compare voltage in the system. As for the fuse, it is inbuilt in the inverter.

The inverter has a digital readout of 12.7-12.9 showing before and after switching on.

I am getting a similar reading at the battery and the input cables, via a multimeter, with just a 0.5 variation at "switch on" of inverter.

Thanks, Colin.

Peter,
see my reply above.
Thank You
Colin.

Same as yours Robin, it was your post that made me decide on that unit. All the best advice I had was that I should run as good a cable as possible for such draw, hence 2g cable, the inverter is mounted on my cargo barrier for many reasons (high up away from water ingress, out of sight from prying eyes, ease of access etc..)

So Robin, what is the other possible issue?????
Colin

Hi Colin

The other outside possibility , other than faulty unit is lead inductance.

I have just checked mine and simulated low volts by running it off 2 thin wires of 2mm copper each 3m long, and plugging in a 150w lamp as a load.

My unit ran without issue at 11.4v

I also put it on an almost dead battery 12V and it ran ok without load , and cut out with 150w lamp showing 10.5v

Its seems mine is quite uncritical and reasonable that yours should be the same.

It is easy to open up by taking off the black base plate via 4 screws. There are 7 I think internal fuses and also visible are two trim pots. Might be worth alook round for anything loose.
However don't know if your into electricity and there are dangerous volts inside and as the unit is new its probably better not to touch.

I would still go with my original suggestion of running the unit off a seperate battery via completey different leads (even thins ones).

If it still fails then its probably better to return it.

If I can do anything else let me know

Robin Miller

Hi Robin,
Thanks for your help.
I just got an E-mail from watersidetradingco to ask me to post the unit back to them for replacement. They claimed two other units have had the same issue.
I must admit that their response was. They supplied me with a free post address for return and a new unit will be sent by return mail from them.
Colin

Was just about to say to return the unit and get one that works correctly.

Done all that Nav. thanks, Colin.

Nice thought Rolande , Yeah I've tried that one.
No difference mate, Colin.