2 KW Inverter browsing.
Huge price ranges.
Lots of unknown brand names.
Good luck convincing oneself the cheapest is 'just fine'. I can imagine feeding a cedar 2x4 into a tablesaw to make 3.5 inch wide planks in the middle of 20% RH nowhere, and the inverter going up in smoke.
My intended 2KW inverter location, a tape measure, and the relative sizes available for a 2KW inverter, are not making me jump with joy.
The drivers seat, i still want it to be able to slide all the way back, even though I usually go one notch forward of all the way back and tilt the backrest a bit more, but long drives and I switch it up.
DS Seat slid all the way back and inverter mounted on exterior cabinet wall leads to inverter body as a bump stop.
Not acceptable.
Much rather have inverter inside ventilated cabinet behind Drivers seat, rather than under/behind drivers seat.
Electric wall inside cabinet is quite stuffed, unless I modify a bunch of storage. I already lost some storage because of the new hatch cover and am not thrilled.
Cabinet wall, was not designed for easy modification, and modifying it might make it so I cannot swivel the drivers seat sideways, even though I have not done that in a decade.
The 4 wires 10-2 and 8-2 awg, into solar controller from panels, was a major curse fest in 2012, last I touched them.
Don't want to touch them now.
Don't want to modify cabinet with controller in place though. Saw vibrations and a 14 year old solar controller.....
Not happy with any of the potential solutions/compromises.
Kind of want to just take everything off and rebuild cabinet wall to but up against seat as far back as it will go including teh angle of the backrest, but that could be a days long project and require I have everything I could possibly need on hand while still needing to power everything at night.
How much more detrimental to an electric motor is MSW compared to PSW?
The 2KW inverter might get tabled until I actually need it.
By that benchmark, I can just quit now though, I did not even need the Deka's, and the second alternator, has yet to be needed in the 6+ months it has been mounted..
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The 190 AH of Deka GC-2s perform slightly worse than 100 AH of Northstar TPPL AGM, in terms of voltage retention under load for amp hours removed, for the first ~55 amp hours removed, at which point the 190 Ah of Dekas start retaining higher voltage. I've gone only as low as 62AH from full overnight with them, and did not record morning voltage, before sun hit panel
The Dekas seem to have improved after 3 nights of cycling in this regard, getting full by each afternoon.
A couple 40 amp meanwell assists in the late morning to hit Absorption faster, revealed very similar amperage acceptance rates as Northstar if it were discharged the same amount of AH and held at the same voltage.
In the afternoon I would parallel the Northstar, then turn on headlamps and fog lights until controller went back into absorb, holding all batteries at 14.7v
.
It would have been nice to easily see how much of the solar amperage was going into Dekas vs Northstar at that point.
The Dekas spec 14.1 to 14.4v absorption@77f and 14.6v is called an 'Equalization' voltage.
Much simpler when i just had the Northstar.
The free GC-2s were a curse!
Huge price ranges.
Lots of unknown brand names.
Good luck convincing oneself the cheapest is 'just fine'. I can imagine feeding a cedar 2x4 into a tablesaw to make 3.5 inch wide planks in the middle of 20% RH nowhere, and the inverter going up in smoke.
My intended 2KW inverter location, a tape measure, and the relative sizes available for a 2KW inverter, are not making me jump with joy.
The drivers seat, i still want it to be able to slide all the way back, even though I usually go one notch forward of all the way back and tilt the backrest a bit more, but long drives and I switch it up.
DS Seat slid all the way back and inverter mounted on exterior cabinet wall leads to inverter body as a bump stop.
Not acceptable.
Much rather have inverter inside ventilated cabinet behind Drivers seat, rather than under/behind drivers seat.
Electric wall inside cabinet is quite stuffed, unless I modify a bunch of storage. I already lost some storage because of the new hatch cover and am not thrilled.
Cabinet wall, was not designed for easy modification, and modifying it might make it so I cannot swivel the drivers seat sideways, even though I have not done that in a decade.
The 4 wires 10-2 and 8-2 awg, into solar controller from panels, was a major curse fest in 2012, last I touched them.
Don't want to touch them now.
Don't want to modify cabinet with controller in place though. Saw vibrations and a 14 year old solar controller.....
Not happy with any of the potential solutions/compromises.
Kind of want to just take everything off and rebuild cabinet wall to but up against seat as far back as it will go including teh angle of the backrest, but that could be a days long project and require I have everything I could possibly need on hand while still needing to power everything at night.
How much more detrimental to an electric motor is MSW compared to PSW?
The 2KW inverter might get tabled until I actually need it.
By that benchmark, I can just quit now though, I did not even need the Deka's, and the second alternator, has yet to be needed in the 6+ months it has been mounted..
--------
The 190 AH of Deka GC-2s perform slightly worse than 100 AH of Northstar TPPL AGM, in terms of voltage retention under load for amp hours removed, for the first ~55 amp hours removed, at which point the 190 Ah of Dekas start retaining higher voltage. I've gone only as low as 62AH from full overnight with them, and did not record morning voltage, before sun hit panel
The Dekas seem to have improved after 3 nights of cycling in this regard, getting full by each afternoon.
A couple 40 amp meanwell assists in the late morning to hit Absorption faster, revealed very similar amperage acceptance rates as Northstar if it were discharged the same amount of AH and held at the same voltage.
In the afternoon I would parallel the Northstar, then turn on headlamps and fog lights until controller went back into absorb, holding all batteries at 14.7v
.
It would have been nice to easily see how much of the solar amperage was going into Dekas vs Northstar at that point.
The Dekas spec 14.1 to 14.4v absorption@77f and 14.6v is called an 'Equalization' voltage.
Much simpler when i just had the Northstar.
The free GC-2s were a curse!
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