Re: [RE-wrenches] Battery changing on SW inverter

2012-05-16 Thread Dana
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 8:29 PM To: glenn.b...@glbcc.com; RE-wrenches Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Battery changing on SW inverter Glenn, Righthand Engineering http://www.righthandeng.com/hm_swca.htm still makes the memory backup device you are thinking about. I recommend going though all

Re: [RE-wrenches] Battery changing on SW inverter

2012-05-16 Thread jay peltz
the environment before printing this email From: re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Kent Osterberg Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 8:29 PM To: glenn.b...@glbcc.com; RE-wrenches Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Battery changing on SW inverter

[RE-wrenches] Battery changing on SW inverter

2012-05-15 Thread Glenn Burt
Hello wrenches, I am quoting a job to do a simple battery bank replacement on an existing system that has a Trace SW4048 inverter. I have not done any substantial work on these revered systems, but seem to remember that removing the batteries will lose all the custom program settings in

Re: [RE-wrenches] Battery changing on SW inverter

2012-05-15 Thread Nathan Jones
Glen, I am unaware of the backup memory system you spoke of but resetting them after losing the settings is a 3 minute deal. Feel free to call myself or any number of folks on the list probably before you kill the DC and I for one will be glad to walk you through the menu and let you record

Re: [RE-wrenches] Battery changing on SW inverter

2012-05-15 Thread Allan Sindelar
Glenn, For someone who has worked on these, it takes maybe 5 minutes to reprogram one. First time, might take you 20 minutes at most. Reprogramming is way quicker and cheaper than buying and installing a 3rd-party device. I'd suggest that you make two copies of the

Re: [RE-wrenches] Battery changing on SW inverter

2012-05-15 Thread Kent Osterberg
Glenn, Righthand Engineering http://www.righthandeng.com/hm_swca.htm still makes the memory backup device you are thinking about. I recommend going though all the menus before you work on the system and writing down the settings. You may even find that there are some settings that are not