Ron,
The PS was a rather short-lived "entry-level" version of the SW
series from around ten years ago. We installed two of them before
deciding it wasn't a good choice for most customers. It lacked AGS
(as do pretty much all inverters these days, but that was lost from
the SW), had (I believe) a coarser waveform, and biggest issue,
lacked the 8-button control panel of the SW, so you couldn't change
settings, access meters, or equalize from a gennie without adding
the $300 SW remote. Perfectly reliable, just noisy.
Allan
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On 11/10/2011 6:13 PM, [email protected] wrote:
On 11/10/2011 3:33 PM, Ron Young wrote:
So would these be suitable for an off-grid
application Bob? Any comments on the reliability? The proposed
set is in individual residences on a First Nations reserve and
the recipients will have zero technical knowledge for operation
of them.
Ron Young
I can only comment on it if it is using a PS rather than a
Prosine. I didn't
have a lot of experience with the Prosines back then. A wee bit
though.
If a PS2512 or 24V PS, then I would trust it. If it works OK
now,
and they'd have to test it of course first, then I bet it would be
OK
for a UPS situation.
Hopefully they don't have 10 year old batteries in them and these
were
real products and not some kind of prototype deal, I wouldn't have
an issue with it.
There won't be a warranty left on it though. I might even get a
backup inverter for "just in case", as long as there was one
semi-technical
person or someone nearby that knows how to twiddle knobs and
a screwdriver.
boB
On 11/10/2011 1:41
PM, Ron Young wrote:
Hi all, does anyone have any experience
with the Xantrex Vesta Online units? I have just been
contacted by a client who has several of these in
storage and he wants to put them into use as off-grid
inverter systems. The only thing I've been able to
find out about them is that they seem to be UPS units.
Client has no further info or manuals. I have a pic if
anyone needs a look.
The Vesta that I remember was a very early Xantrex,
late Trace battery box like thing with an inverter
in it. The inverter would normally have been either a
Statpower Prosine or a Trace PS2512 or
some other voltage. We called it the Pentasine cuz it
had 5 transformers.
I wasn't sure if the Vesta was a shipping product but I
guess they/we did ship some.
I have a couple of those that I use for shelves in the
basement. They had doors.
boB
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