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Subject Author Date Trace 4048 E Z Peaces 05-07-2008  Re: Trace 4048 RW Salnick 05-07-2008  Re: Trace 4048 Kitep 05-07-2008  Re: Trace 4048 E Z Peaces 05-07-2008  Re: Trace 4048 Jordan Hazen 05-08-2008  Re: Trace 4048 E Z Peaces 05-08-2008  Re: Trace 4048 Ron Rosenfeld 05-08-2008  Re: Trace 4048 Ulysses 05-08-2008  Re: Trace 4048 E Z Peaces 05-10-2008  Re: Trace 4048 Bruce in alaska 05-10-2008  Re: Trace 4048 E Z Peaces 05-12-2008  Re: Trace 4048 Bruce in alaska 05-13-2008  Re: Trace 4048 Bob F 05-13-2008  Re: Trace 4048 Solar Flare 05-14-2008  Re: Trace 4048 E Z Peaces 05-18-2008  Re: Trace 4048 Solar Flare 05-23-2008  Re: Trace 4048 E Z Peaces 05-23-2008
Posted by E Z Peaces on May 7, 2008, 2:30 pm Please log in for more thread options My BIL has a windmill that charges batteries to power a Trace 4048 sine-wave inverter. He also has a Bosche washer. It worked fine on the inverter for several months. After that, the washer wouldn't come on unless something else was putting a load on the inverter. The washer works fine on grid power. From a thousand miles away, I imagine two possibilities. One is that this inverter was not designed to produce a good sine wave when idling. The other is that a capacitor in the inverter has deteriorated. Any advice? Posted by RW Salnick on May 7, 2008, 2:50 pm Please log in for more thread options E Z Peaces brought forth on stone tablets: > My BIL has a windmill that charges batteries to power a Trace 4048 > sine-wave inverter. He also has a Bosche washer. It worked fine on the > inverter for several months. > > After that, the washer wouldn't come on unless something else was > putting a load on the inverter. The washer works fine on grid power. > > From a thousand miles away, I imagine two possibilities. One is that > this inverter was not designed to produce a good sine wave when idling. > The other is that a capacitor in the inverter has deteriorated. > > Any advice? The inverter may need to be set to be more sensitive to a load. Trace inverters will stay in idle mode (conserving power) unless they detect a load. bob Posted by Kitep on May 7, 2008, 9:06 pm Please log in for more thread options > My BIL has a windmill that charges batteries to power a Trace 4048 > sine-wave inverter. He also has a Bosche washer. It worked fine on the > inverter for several months. > > After that, the washer wouldn't come on unless something else was putting > a load on the inverter. The washer works fine on grid power. > > From a thousand miles away, I imagine two possibilities. One is that this > inverter was not designed to produce a good sine wave when idling. The > other is that a capacitor in the inverter has deteriorated. > > Any advice? If it was the first possibility, then why did it use to work? If it's the second, then is it under warranty? Posted by E Z Peaces on May 7, 2008, 11:37 pm Please log in for more thread options Kitep wrote: >> My BIL has a windmill that charges batteries to power a Trace 4048 >> sine-wave inverter. He also has a Bosche washer. It worked fine on the >> inverter for several months. >> >> After that, the washer wouldn't come on unless something else was putting >> a load on the inverter. The washer works fine on grid power. >> >> From a thousand miles away, I imagine two possibilities. One is that this >> inverter was not designed to produce a good sine wave when idling. The >> other is that a capacitor in the inverter has deteriorated. >> >> Any advice? > > If it was the first possibility, then why did it use to work? It occurred to me that perhaps in the past, there happened to be another load when he turned on the washer, and the pattern of using that other appliance has changed. Bob says the inverter's sensitivity may need adjustment, and maybe that adjustment has changed. > If it's the second, then is it under warranty? > > I don't know if it's under warranty. I don't know if it uses capacitance and inductance to filter the output. Maybe it will work perfectly if I forward Bob's advice. Posted by Jordan Hazen on May 8, 2008, 4:59 am Please log in for more thread options >My BIL has a windmill that charges batteries to power a Trace 4048 >sine-wave inverter. He also has a Bosche washer. It worked fine on the >inverter for several months. > >After that, the washer wouldn't come on unless something else was >putting a load on the inverter. The washer works fine on grid power. > > From a thousand miles away, I imagine two possibilities. One is that >this inverter was not designed to produce a good sine wave when idling. > The other is that a capacitor in the inverter has deteriorated. > >Any advice? This model of inverter has a "search mode" (the idling state another poster mentioned), where it sends out AC power only in brief pulses, in order to detect whether a load is trying to draw any significant current (in which case the inverter will switch fully-on). This doesn't work very well with some appliances, though, especially those with electronic controls. He might try manually forcing the inverter to always-on before running the washer. This can be done from the front panel (or remote panel, if one is connected), by simply pressing the red "ON/OFF MENU" button several times to move from "SRCH" (search) to "ON". Don't forget to set it back to SRCH after the washing's done, to avoid unnecessary battery drain. -- Jordan. Similar Threads Posted I want to go with Trace GTI, but how is the feel for Outback GTI January 14, 2007, 5:01 pm Trace inverter going faulty October 27, 2008, 11:20 am