117 vac is perfect output. If the washing machine is having issues, it
would be with the stepped waveform, not the voltage. The old Trace had
a pretty choppy "pure sine wave". I had washers not run on the Trace
SWs, and we were able to put a capacitor on the inverter output that
fixed the problem. Do a search of the RE archives though, because
several others mentioned that the cap idea has potentially dangerous
issues. The Magnum 4024 is a good replacement, I put one in and kept
the old APT power center on a system last year.
R.Ray Walters
CTO, RemoteSolar.com
Former Nabcep Certified PV Installer, 2004-2016
Licensed Master Electrician
Solar Design Engineer
303 505-8760
On 2/8/2017 12:10 PM, Lou Russo wrote:
Aloha All,
I have a client with a old Trace 4024 on a APT center. Everything has
worked great for over 20 years. He purchased a new washing machine
from Sears that does not want to work. The voltage at the outlet is
117 vac and the Sears guy says that is the issue. When the system is
running on the genset (Northern Light 6kW Diesel) we get 121 vac and
the washer runs fine. That seems like a very tight voltage window and
a issue with the washer not the system. I have seen sensitive
electronics go wacky with no N-G bound maybe that is the issue? I did
not install the system so I would have go poke around. Any one out
there have any ideas?
Aloha,
Lou Russo
l...@spreesolarsystems.com <mailto:l...@spreesolarsystems.com>
440 345 6762
Spree Solar Systems LLC
CT-34322
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