I had a failure of the regulator side of my Link 2000R, No charge from the alternator. I contacted Tekris in New Jersey and got good information from Chris.
ch...@tekrispower.com He offered some diagnostic checks and finally advised me to take advantage of a reduced price for a new Link 2000R that was offered by Xantrex. He advised my by email and finally phone. Very helpful and knowledgeable. Bill On 7/12/2011 1:24 PM, Jim Lynch wrote: > I have an old Heart 2000 inverter/charger with the Link 2000 > controller. I went to the boat a couple of weeks ago and the display > was frozen. Nothing was working, so I disconnected the power to the > Link and when I reassembled the wiring it's like the minus sign is stuck > in the on position. The batteries are reading -13.65 volts (for > instance) and when the charger is running the current draw is -20 and > when the charger is off and the refer is running with some lights the > draw is 6 amps or so. So I removed the battery cables entirely for > about 5 minutes and reattached them. No joy. > > I then attempted to "set to factory defaults" which did nothing to > alleviate the problem. The manual is no help. And no I didn't reverse > any leads. I removed the blue and purple leads (I think) and put them > back in the same place. I have a terminal strip mounted near the > controller with the terminals marked with the correct colors. At no > time did I remove a ground wire. I do not leave the charger on when I'm > off the boat. I have 190 watts of solar that keeps the batteries up. > The bilge pump is the only thing that draws current when I'm away from > the boat. > > Does anyone have any ideas as to what might be going on? Does anyone > know where I might get one repaired if it comes to that? > > Thanks, > Jim. > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > Liveaboard@liveaboardonline.com > To adjust your membership settings over the web > http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to liveaboard-j...@liveaboardonline.com > > To unsubscribe send an email to liveaboard-le...@liveaboardonline.com > The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives > http://www.mail-archive.com/liveaboard@liveaboardnow.org > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html > -- Bill Pardee Hypocrisy is a tribute vice pays to virtue _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list Liveaboard@liveaboardonline.com To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to liveaboard-j...@liveaboardonline.com To unsubscribe send an email to liveaboard-le...@liveaboardonline.com The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/liveaboard@liveaboardnow.org The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
