I personally never going to by a Xantrex again. With normal operation I blew within 2 months one 1kW and one 1.75. both of the blew the internal (and that gets me) 30 amp (it has four of them) automotive blade fuses that are soldered on the wires (????). Next time I will buy a Victron.
Yanni Marinated S/V Princess Thalia Hamilton-Fifty Point @H3 N 43.13.406 W 73.37.431 www.yannismarine.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: Norm of Bandersnatch To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 2:45 PM Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] 12v computer and power systems (technical) My Trace (now Xantrex) 2.4 KW 12VDC sine wave (actually "pure" sine wave inverters have a wave form like a stepped pyramid) has never caused any RF interference that I am aware of in any of my electronics: computers, ham, marine, entertainment or other radios or TVs. Norm S/V Bandersnatch Lying Julington Creek 30 07.695N 081 38.484 Back when I worked for Xantrex and the new European CE specifications were announced, it was decided to withdraw the products from the European market because the cost of compliance was not warranted given the sales volume at that time. At that ime I conducted a test using a ham operator who I think was a member of this list at that time. We provided two inverters one a 1kW sine wave and the other a 1kW MSW inverter. Lab quality spectrum analyzers were used to measure the extent and nature of the emitted interference and subjective tests were also made as to how it affected reception in the normal ham bands. It was obvious that th e pure sine wave inverter was far superior. It had much less radiated and conducted noise emissions. It was possible to carry on normal ham radio operations! . This suppression of RF interference was due to the nature of the design required to make a pure sine wave inverter. This is not an advertisement for Xantrex. The argument is equally valid for all makes of sine wave inverters as far as I know. CE certified products are definitely better than non CE certified products in that respect. Arild ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/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.liveaboardnow.org/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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 8.0.101 / Virus Database: 270.4.3/1524 - Release Date: 28/06/2008 7:42 PM
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