On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 9:21 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Ahmet, > > I see the confusion. How can the inverter produce 120vac output from the > batteries yet also charge the batteries at the same time since both actions > use the inverter's transformers. > > I will make a note to investigate this the next time I go to the boat and > get back to you. > > The primary concept is that connecting 120vac dock power (or genset power) > to the output of an inverter will destroy all the FETs in the inverter. As > my manual says: "This damage is massive, obvious, and not covered by the > warranty." > > > Norm > S/V Bandersnatch > >
I'd say that the assumption that the inverter uses the same xformers for output as input (or indeed, that it uses transformers at all) is not certain. -- http://neon-buddha.net _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
