[RE-wrenches] Chevy Bolt

2018-04-23 Thread RE Ellison
I have a customer with a 20-year-old modified sine wave inverter that has been no issue at all until recently when he arrived from New York City with his Chevy bolt Obviously the Bolt will not tolerate the modified sine wave and we’re discussing upgrading and we were wondering if the magnum inv

Re: [RE-wrenches] Chevy Bolt

2018-04-23 Thread Ray
Pretty sure the Magnum will work, since I have a customer with a Chevy Volt running on old Trace SW4024 inverters.  Not mod sine, but they're not near as clean as the Magnums either. -Ray On 4/23/18 12:33 PM, RE Ellison wrote: I have a customer with a 20-year-old modified sine wave inverter

Re: [RE-wrenches] Chevy Bolt

2018-04-23 Thread Starlight Solar Power Systems
Hey Bob, It may not be that a modified square wave is causing the problem but rather your MSW. At 20 years old, I bet you have ringing on the waveform of your inverter (voltage overshoot during switching). Look at it with a scope. I have seen 10-12 year old inverters hitting 300+ volts PP on th

Re: [RE-wrenches] Chevy Bolt

2018-04-23 Thread August Goers
As a separate item to check, make sure the grounding electrode system and neutral are all up to shape at the site. We've had problems with this with various EVs giving an error when atempting to charge. August Luminalt On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 11:45 AM, Ray wrote: > Pretty sure the Magnum will w

Re: [RE-wrenches] Chevy Bolt

2018-04-23 Thread Bill Battagin
I've been charging our Toyota RAV4 EV for the last 5 years on a Radian, ocassionally on a couple Outback FX's also. Bill Feather River Solar Electric On 4/23/2018 12:12 PM, August Goers wrote: As a separate item to check, make sure the grounding electrode system and neutral are all up to sha