Sababa
Senior Member
- Joined
- May 23, 2022
- Messages
- 364
- Vessel Name
- Sababa
- Vessel Make
- Maritimo 52
I recently had both a new Victron Quattro inverter charger and a new Splendide washer/dryer installed on my boat. The other day when I went to do a load of laundry for the first time while running the generator, the washer wouldn’t start. I called Spendide’s (excellent) technical support, and they determined that that the washer was going into pause mode because there was a problem with the sine wave in the power supply. They had me turn off charging from the Victron, and lo and behold, the washer fired right up. So I can do laundry or charge on the hook, but not both. Any idea why this might be? Shouldn’t the inverter just be passing through the generator power when it is not inverting? Why would charging make a difference to the sine wave being provided to the washer, which is not even on an inverted circuit?