assistance with inverter duty motors
assistance with inverter duty motors
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Our Company electricty is provided by a 35KW Generator and we installed 5 4000 watts Xantrax Inverters (model # SW4024) and 10 1600AH batteries but the problem is that whenever the generator shuts off and we are running on inverters the lights on our 12 Hunter Fans flicker and eventually turn off. The Fan itself also slows down at first and then start rotating faster after a bit. Apparently these fans are not manufactured with inverter duty motors.
Any suggestion on how to solve this problem?
Any suggestion on how to solve this problem?





RE: assistance with inverter duty motors
More likely it is an incompatability between some sort of electronic controller built-in to the fans and lights with the output ofyour inverters. Many of them are SCR phase angle controllers that simply reduce the voltage, and phase angle controllers are generally difficult to power up from a PWM source unless there is a lot of filtering in the inverter. Cheaper inverters often do not include sine wave filtering.
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RE: assistance with inverter duty motors
RE: assistance with inverter duty motors
Eng-Tips: Help for your job, not for your homework Read FAQ731-376
RE: assistance with inverter duty motors