Thanks for the feedback and pointers, its greatly appreciated – I checked frequency and it was spot on at 60Hz but with minimal decimal places on my meter.
This must be something new with Magnum as I haven’t seen the voltage issues on other systems nor have I had any issues with appliances or clocks etc. I hate to admit that I seem to find myself in constant frustration for one reason or another with the primary suppliers of offgrid system components! From: RE-wrenches [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Allan Sindelar Sent: Monday, April 1, 2019 10:58 AM To: RE-wrenches Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Magnum Inverters - Digital Clocks Losing Time? Rich, this is a known flaw in the Magnum AE and PAE series. I have one longtime client for whom I supplied a 4448AE around 2009 who later told me that had he known of this frequency issue he wouldn’t have selected Magnum. Allan Sindelar On Apr 1, 2019, at 6:56 AM, Christopher Warfel <cwar...@entech-engineering.com> wrote: I would think it has to be frequency. What else could shift the time? Up until about 2 years ago we were a grid isolated system and no one could use a plug in the wall clock. It takes just a very little off 60 Hz for a clock to keep incorrect time. Being off .5 Hz will result in 42,300 cycles in one day. When I worked in power plants the frequency was a digital display to the 6th place I think. The operator said if that decimal place was off by more than 2 from ISONE, it would trip off line. The steam turbines would be destroyed otherwise. Chris On 4/1/2019 7:08 AM, Rich Nicol wrote: Hello Wrenches I have a site with two PAE 48v Magnum inverters stacked. System voltage fluctuates ~ +/- 4 volts ranging from 243 to 247. Evenly split on the two lines. Site has a few electrical peculiarities I haven’t seen on the many other sites I have with Magnum inverters. Among those is three digital clocks on appliances that lose ~ 5 min per day consistently. A forth clock which is on a weather station with a transformer where it plugs into a receptacle keeps time and of course the computers do as they are web connected. I checked all neutral connections and verified proper N-G bond. All connections appropriately torqued. My recollection is the modest voltage swings are within Magnum spec. But its constantly moving about which seems somewhat suspect to me. Any suggestions? Thanks RIch _______________________________________________ List sponsored by Redwood Alliance List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org Change listserver email address & settings: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List-Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org/maillist.html List rules & etiquette: www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm Check out or update participant bios: www.members.re-wrenches.org _______________________________________________ List sponsored by Redwood Alliance List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org Change listserver email address & settings: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List-Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org/maillist.html List rules & etiquette: www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm Check out or update participant bios: www.members.re-wrenches.org
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