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Inverter saga | 16 comments (16 topical, 0 editorial)

Re: Inverter saga (3.00 / 0) (#4)
by ruddycrazy on Mon May 12th, 2008 at 01:43:32 AM MST
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Hi Allan,
Was it possible that got a surge into the 240 volt output from somewhere, as if that is the case you can kiss goodbye to that full bank of fets. This happened to my original inverter that forced us to upgrade in a hurry. Personally I haven't ever seen a SEA inverter so I know nothing about them but I reckon if you change the caps turn it on unloaded and hopefully it will work. Then try a small load at first then increase the load and see if trips. If it does time to take to the inverter hospital. Our selectronic SA32 inverter has been going now for near 5 years and I hope it doesn't go out in simpathy with yours.

Cheers Bryan

Re: Inverter saga (3.00 / 0) (#8)
by wpowokal on Mon May 12th, 2008 at 06:24:28 AM MST
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Hi Bryan, while anything is possible it was the middle of the night no storms etc, but to be fair it does have a hard life. On thing I had not done was blow out the summer dust befor the wet weather, so that's a possibility.

I am hopefull, in any case I may as well replace the caps as be charged twice their value to have someone else replace them.

The SEA/Selectronics/Latronics inverters are all very similar, I would have no problem using any one of those.

allan
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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Inverter saga | 16 comments (16 topical, 0 editorial)

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