Watts Happening
I call it like I see it.
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I couldn’t stand using the factory Magnum 2812 inverter in our bus so I swapped it out for a Victron 3000 that I had sitting on the shelf today, keeping everything 12v for now and will probably swap in a couple 48v Quattro 5000’s over the winter (have those on hand too).
The factory setup is a “main” panel, which feeds power to the inverter, then power comes back to an “inverter” aka sub panel.
That said, the original Magnum has (2) 10/2’s coming in and (2) 10/2’s leaving. It passes through both legs of the 50a service. The Victron only does 120v so I effectively ditched one of the input and output wires and tossed a jumper between phases in the inverter output panel so it would light everything up.
All is working as expected, but here I sit on the couch thinking it’s prone to overloading the 10awg wire. Obviously the wire is sized appropriately for the inverters ability to invert power, but it’s NOT sized properly for what the Victron can pass through and combine with inverter power. Effectively 30a from AC and another 25a from the inverter, resulting in the possibility of outputting 55a over a 10awg wire, no bueno.
It’s not realistic to run a larger wire, huge pain, not gonna do it. So my thought is, why not use the “ditched” 10awg output wire and just put both 10awg wires into the Victron AC output? This will then feed each side of the inverter panel and can handle the max theoretical amperage.
Thoughts?
The factory setup is a “main” panel, which feeds power to the inverter, then power comes back to an “inverter” aka sub panel.
That said, the original Magnum has (2) 10/2’s coming in and (2) 10/2’s leaving. It passes through both legs of the 50a service. The Victron only does 120v so I effectively ditched one of the input and output wires and tossed a jumper between phases in the inverter output panel so it would light everything up.
All is working as expected, but here I sit on the couch thinking it’s prone to overloading the 10awg wire. Obviously the wire is sized appropriately for the inverters ability to invert power, but it’s NOT sized properly for what the Victron can pass through and combine with inverter power. Effectively 30a from AC and another 25a from the inverter, resulting in the possibility of outputting 55a over a 10awg wire, no bueno.
It’s not realistic to run a larger wire, huge pain, not gonna do it. So my thought is, why not use the “ditched” 10awg output wire and just put both 10awg wires into the Victron AC output? This will then feed each side of the inverter panel and can handle the max theoretical amperage.
Thoughts?
