[C320-list] Freedom 10 inverter/charger

[B. Stumpp]

Gene, 

Can you hear the charger run or know if it is or is not charging?  There may
be a couple of hidden fuses you need to check.  Follow your batter cables
backwards towards the charger and a foot or two or three  from the
batteries , under the setee, you will/may find a fuse in each run.  It's
possible these are blown and need to be relaced.  I found out about these
the hard way when I thought I had a bad charger.  

 

Bruce Stumpp

"Adventure", #647

Frog Mortar Creek, Mayland    

 

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Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 09:49:52 -0700

From: Gene Helfman <genehelfman at gmail.com>

To: C320-List at catalina320.com

Subject: [C320-list] Freedom 10 inverter/charger

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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