We had one last year with a bad relay, the customer had been charging a
Tesla EV through it (pass through from the grid) and smoked the relay.
It was pretty obvious, the clear relay cover was all covered on the
inside with burnt relay bits and smoke coating.
Ray Walters
Remote Solar
303 505-8760
On 3/9/20 12:13 PM, John Blittersdorf wrote:
Hugh,
I have one at my guest cabin doing the same thing except that the
meter on the mate says I have 119 vac but nothing at the AC Out
terminal. I think Kent might be right that it may be the AC output
relay. It is odd though that there is no error message in your case.
This inverter had been tortured by the last tenants of the cabin with
bad generators. I was actually going to go up there and check it out
some more as it is warm today. No heat in the cabin.
John Blittersdorf
On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 1:00 PM Kent Osterberg <k...@coveoregon.com
<mailto:k...@coveoregon.com>> wrote:
Hugh,
I've seen these symptoms before. The problem was a failed output
relay on the ac board.
Kent Osterberg
Blue Mountain Solar
On 3/9/2020 9:25 AM, Hugh Piggott wrote:
Hi Wrenches,
I wonder if anyone can tell me what is happening here?
I have an Outback VFX that I used for my own home from
2006-2018. It’s a 50Hz 240V unit, but similar otherwise to any
other 48V VFX. It was working well when disconnected. I needed
to replace the inverter system for other reasons.
I installed this for a neighbour recently on his 48V system, and
it apparently worked when I left the building.
Now it’s not working. When “off” it shows a warning for
temperatures sensor - fair enough I did not install one. Maybe
when it gets connected to a generator it will be found a sensor.
This is the only error or fault with a yes.
When “on” it makes a reassuring buzz and both lights come up
green and there is no error or warning in the Mate. Just one
problem - no output.
Another weird thing. I go to the status menu and check meters
STATUS/FX/METER output voltage and it says “4V”. So it _knows_
that it is not working but it appears to have no qualms or
misgivings about this state of affairs. NO error, no warning,
two green lights.
I tried rebooting with the battery fuse. I tried resetting to
factory defaults. No joy.
I suppose I will take it to pieces and try to figure out a
hardware failure but I wonder if anyone has seen this and can
give me a clue?
cheers
Hugh
Hugh Piggott
Scoraig Wind Electric
Dundonnell
Ross shire
IV23 2RE, UK
+44 77 1315 7600
h...@scoraigwind.co.uk <mailto:h...@scoraigwind.co.uk>
www.scoraigwind.co.uk <http://www.scoraigwind.co.uk/>
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