johnfv2
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To all Seneca owners:
Take the cover off of your fuse panel in the bedroom. Tighten ALL of your white ground wires on their grounding block and you'll save yourself a lot of time on trouble shooting. Every one of mine were loose and I also had lost power for my front TV. This was the problem.
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Did all that.
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johnfv2
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The outlet the inverter is pluged into is out going 110 not incoming. The inverter needs 12v not 110. Your tv outlet is probably drawing more amps than the inverter can handle. Unplug anything other than your tv set and see what happens.
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johnfv2 wrote:The outlet the inverter is pluged into is out going 110 not incoming. The inverter needs 12v not 110. Your tv outlet is probably drawing more amps than the inverter can handle. Unplug anything other than your tv set and see what happens.
You are not correct with this statement.
In this application the plug that the inverted is plugged into is incoming 110 v AC, either from shore power or from the generator. This powers the load connected to the inverter via an internal transfer switch. The output is directly connected to the plugs that are being supplied from the inverter. The way this works is that with no incoming AC the inverter supplies AC to the output via the 12v to 110v conversion process. But if AC is available the 110v AC output is supplied via the incoming AC via the operation of the internal transfer switch.
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Rich Panganiban
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johnfv2 wrote:To all Seneca owners:
Take the cover off of your fuse panel in the bedroom. Tighten ALL of your white ground wires on their grounding block and you'll save yourself a lot of time on trouble shooting. Every one of mine were loose and I also had lost power for my front TV. This was the problem.
+1 on that. This was the cause of my intermittent thermostat operation.
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Gene in NE
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johnfv2 wrote:The outlet the inverter is pluged into is out going 110 not incoming... The above part of your posting is suspect (likely not correct). If it were correct, you would have a "dead man plug"; meaning if you touched the prongs on the inverter cord you would be a dead man as you would have 120V running through your body.
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scottysgng
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Try checking ground connections (white wires) in the basement storage 1/2 of mine were loose
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pianotuna
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Hi PatrolRanger,
A 1500 watt heater would draw about 150 amps per hour. Your batteries are rated at around 225 amps @ 12 volts. The Peukert corrected amps would be about 326 amps. Even if your inverter was only 3 feet from the batteries the cable size would be huge at 400 kcmil.
What you observed was an example of extreme voltage drop on a DC circuit.
PatrolRanger wrote:I'm glad you got it fixed. I was going to mention that. I have a 3000w inverter and hooked it up to 2xtrojan 6volt batteries in series. I connected a 1500w ceramic heater to the inverter and it went dead. After hours of playing with different configurations I determined that the amp input from the batteries was not enough to power the heater. When I connected a car battery to the inverter, it worked fine because starting batteries have a bunch more amp output than deep cycles.
Regards, Don
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I too lost power to my front TV. Problem was in electrical panel in rear bedroom. The wires that come from the 120 volt circuit breakers were loose. In fact the 'red' wire from the 50 amp. main dropped out when I touched the breaker. Suggest you tighten not only the white wires, but ALL wires in the 120 volt panel. My problem was solved.
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