Inverter problem

[Hymerboy]

A constant beep and a red light on the inverter , troubleshooter says check conections and inadequate power supply, I have cleaned all conections and the batteries are fully charged, any ideas?

 

[Bessy765]

Depends how much current and the capacity of your batteries, you will draw app 28 amps @ 12 volt d.c. to produce 1 amp @ 240 volts a.c. The battery may show fully charged but may not be able to deliver the amps required. Are any of the cables getting hot or the battery case itself?

 

[RedFrame]

What type/size of inverter do you have, what type/size of battery bank do you have and what are you trying to run with it?

Cheers
Red.

 

[Tigger-Tim]

A constant beep and a red light on the inverter , troubleshooter says check conections and inadequate power supply, I have cleaned all conections and the batteries are fully charged, any ideas?

I'd put a multimeter on the battery and see what it drops to when the inverter is in use.

 

[Hymerboy]

Panic over, it's working now been in strong sun for 4 hours so I guess the batteries were down a bit , thanks all,

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[Jev88]

Panic over, it's working now been in strong sun for 4 hours so I guess the batteries were down a bit , thanks all,

Don't breath too deeply yet ---- the input from the solar could be masking a poor quality leisure battery. Once sun goes down you may be back to flashjing lights and no inverter? When a battery dies it often "shows" 12V+ but collapases when asked to actually do some work.

 

[rosalan]

I jumped out of my skin first time my inverter did what yours did. My panel indicated low battery so I disconected one of the two electric bike chargers that were running. Noise stopped and the sun caught up charging the battery.

 

[Hymerboy]

I jumped out of my skin first time my inverter did what yours did. My panel indicated low battery so I disconected one of the two electric bike chargers that were running. Noise stopped and the sun caught up charging the battery.

You've hit the nail on the head, now I think about it my trouble started after charging my bike batteries, i'll be more carefull in future. Thanks for that snippet.