Maybe I making an assumption here that I shouldn’t but I hope you don’t mean that you had moved the breaker to the battery box on the inside?
If you ever been in a dark room when one of those did it’s job it’s really impressive and you sure don’t want it in the battery box if it ever has to trip in anger! Bob Ellison > On Dec 6, 2017, at 12:20 PM, ga...@solarindependence.com wrote: > > Mac, > I had 2 midnite charge controllers trip breakers and eventually fail the > charge controllers on a Magnum system, moved the battery breaker from the > battery positive bus direct to the batteries and problem went away. > >> On 2017-12-06 05:18, Mac Lewis wrote: >> Hello wrenches, >> I've got a mysterious breaker tripping that I need some ideas on how to fix. >> Original system: >> Array 6 x 235W Kyocera modules >> 1 x Outback FM60 charge controller >> 1 x Magnum MS 4024 PAE inverter >> Upgraded system we stacked a second inverter to accommodate an air >> compressor: >> Array 6 x 235W Kyocera modules >> 1 x Outback FM60 charge controller >> *2 x Magnum MS 4024 PAE inverter* >> There have been no changes to the solar array, just to the inverter side of >> the system. We have been getting intermittent breaker tripping (a couple >> of weeks between) on the battery breaker side of the charge controller. >> The basics have been checked and rechecked. Torque is good on all sides of >> the breaker all the way to the battery bussing. >> The only thing that I can think of is that during a surge on the AC side >> its sucking enough current out of the charge controller caps to trip this >> breaker occasionally. >> Has anyone experienced this? The only way I can see to fix it is to go >> with a larger breaker ampacity, but maybe there is something better. Does >> anyone no how quickly the max current setting in the Outback can respond, >> would dropping this help? >> Thanks >> -- >> Mac Lewis >> *"Yo solo sé que no sé nada." -Sócrates* >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
