Re: [RE-wrenches] battery box fan

2008-11-08 Thread Drake Chamberlin
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] battery box fan To: RE-wrenches re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org Date: Friday, November 7, 2008, 6:18 PM If your fan is less than 1 amp, like a small computer fan, you can power the fan directly, else you have a problem, because you have 48 volts and need

Re: [RE-wrenches] battery box fan

2008-11-08 Thread David Palumbo
carry several other AC ratings depending on N/O or N/C application. Dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Larry Brown Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 4:29 PM To: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org Subject: [RE-wrenches] battery box fan Wrenches

Re: [RE-wrenches] battery box fan

2008-11-07 Thread Allan Sindelar
Larry, Few relays are rated for 48V DC, as that DC voltage is high enough that relay life is compromised by arcing of the contacts. However, the current of the Power Vent is so tiny that this shouldn't be an issue. If you have an old open-coil power relay with a 12V coil lying around the shop, use

Re: [RE-wrenches] battery box fan

2008-11-07 Thread jay peltz
Hi Larry, I suggest you get a 12v fan, make it easy. jay peltz power On Nov 7, 2008, at 1:29 PM, Larry Brown wrote: Wrenches. On an upgrade to an existing system, we just installed a Xantrex XW6048 inverter. We have a 48 volt dc battery box vent fan that we used to run through the

Re: [RE-wrenches] battery box fan

2008-11-07 Thread Darryl Thayer
Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Larry Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [RE-wrenches] battery box fan To: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org Date: Friday, November 7, 2008, 3:29 PM Wrenches. On an upgrade to an existing system, we just installed a Xantrex XW6048 inverter. We have a 48

Re: [RE-wrenches] battery box fan

2008-11-07 Thread Darryl Thayer
the contacts in series. Find the current rating of the Fan and make sure the relay contact rating is greater than this. Darryl --- On Fri, 11/7/08, Darryl Thayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Darryl Thayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] battery box fan To: RE-wrenches re-wrenches