Re: [RE-wrenches] New Washer - Old Inverter

2017-02-09 Thread jay
HI Bill, I would kindly disagree with the need for a high surge 1800 watt inverter. If this washer is anything like the ones I own or have tested, these washers have no surge. I own a new LG ( branded sears) front load, works on my Outback VFX, but in measuring it, there is no surge at all.

Re: [RE-wrenches] New Washer - Old Inverter

2017-02-09 Thread Tump
Try it with out a GFI outlet. > On Feb 8, 2017, at 2:10 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

Re: [RE-wrenches] New Washer - Old Inverter

2017-02-08 Thread solar1online
Lou, You are getting great advice from the list. Yesterday's sinewave inverter is not today's sinewave inverter. The washers are improved, too, likely using an ECM motor today. If the washer is the only holdout, have you considered a dedicated high quality, high surge, 1800 watt inverter for just t

Re: [RE-wrenches] New Washer - Old Inverter

2017-02-08 Thread Ray Walters
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 pr

Re: [RE-wrenches] New Washer - Old Inverter

2017-02-08 Thread Sindelar Solar
Lou, This was a not-uncommon issue that would occasionally arise with specific washers and the SW series. It often came up with Y2K installations. It has nothing to do with voltage /per se/, and the inverter is working as it should. The SW is true modified-sinewave (with something like 28-42

Re: [RE-wrenches] New Washer - Old Inverter

2017-02-08 Thread Steve Higgins
The old SW's used to be called "sinewave" but they weren't really full sinewave outputs. The outputs had steps or "shorts' in them and the amount of steps depended on what the battery voltage on the input was. Generally these steps ranged between 32 and 60 steps, if I remember correctly... the s