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So we went out on Friday and spent the day and night on the hook. We ran off the inverter all day (including full size fridge freezer and watching TV etc.). Used the microwave a bit too. Didn't top up the batteries using the genny before bunking down.
I woke up during the night and looked at my AC bedside clock to see the time and it was off. So I got up to see what happened. The 24V system was down to ~20V. The error light on my inverter remote was flashing.
So I started the genny made sure the batteries were charging and went back to bed.
Got up in the morning and all of the batteries were fully charged and the Inverter showing float. However the red error light was still flashing.
We got back to the dock, plugged everything into shore. The Inverter red light still flashes. So I went down into the ER to read the error messages on the Inverter itself and found that the error was "Generator Start."
Researching this it seems that this Inverter can be programmed to auto start the genny when the batteries draw down to a certain level. Seems the last owner had it set to do that and it tried to do that but the genny didn't start.
However my genny is tied into the blowers and will not start unless the blowers are on.
So I am a bit stumped on how programming the Inverter to start the genny would ever work on this boat - unless I always left the blowers on - which obviously I wouldn't do.
So now I need to work out if I should reprogram the inverter to not try and start the genny, or see if somehow (and I don't know how) the Inverter can somehow start the blowers and the genny, which seems unlikely. Of course if it can then I have some other kind of error.
Thoughts?
I woke up during the night and looked at my AC bedside clock to see the time and it was off. So I got up to see what happened. The 24V system was down to ~20V. The error light on my inverter remote was flashing.
So I started the genny made sure the batteries were charging and went back to bed.
Got up in the morning and all of the batteries were fully charged and the Inverter showing float. However the red error light was still flashing.
We got back to the dock, plugged everything into shore. The Inverter red light still flashes. So I went down into the ER to read the error messages on the Inverter itself and found that the error was "Generator Start."
Researching this it seems that this Inverter can be programmed to auto start the genny when the batteries draw down to a certain level. Seems the last owner had it set to do that and it tried to do that but the genny didn't start.
However my genny is tied into the blowers and will not start unless the blowers are on.
So I am a bit stumped on how programming the Inverter to start the genny would ever work on this boat - unless I always left the blowers on - which obviously I wouldn't do.
So now I need to work out if I should reprogram the inverter to not try and start the genny, or see if somehow (and I don't know how) the Inverter can somehow start the blowers and the genny, which seems unlikely. Of course if it can then I have some other kind of error.
Thoughts?