[C320-list] Freedom 10 inverter/charger

[Jeff Hare]

If you have shore power to the ac panel and the charger has ac power to it, it may be refusing to turn on because the batteries are too deeply discharged.  Most good chargers won't attempt to charge a battery that is too low.

The dip switches are not likely the problem.

Jeff

Gene Helfman <genehelfman at gmail.com> wrote:

>After a winter of shameful neglect in which all three old batteries
>completely discharged (two 4Ds and a smaller backup) and died and were
>replaced (kaching), we now find we're getting no output from our 15 yr
>old
> Freedom 10 inverter/charger. This means that batteries are not being
>charged when on shore power and there's no electricity from the AC
>outlets
>when we're just running on batteries.  We have current flow to the
>inverter/charger and its fuse is not blown.  We have turned the
>inverter on
>and off and pushed the two reset breaker buttons on the top to no
>avail.
> Are there resets we are missing, do we need to play with dip switches,
>etc?  Should we go through the steps in the manual for initial
>installation?  Or is the unit toast? Does anyone have experience with
>this?
>
>
>Gene Helfman
>*Satori*, #398 1997
>
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>Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia
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