Aloysius
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I have a pair of 5548's with 70kwhr of lfp that I recently put together mostly to fire an moderately sized electric kiln.
Its working great. I start it out about 5 am on the grid then as the sun comes up my grid tied panels kick in . If the sun is working they contribute about 6 of the 11 kw that is required. at 3pm when rates double I switch to my off grid batteries and finish the firing . The SW's don't blink running at max rated load (resistive load power factor is one helps) but they do roar with the fans blasting at max. anyway last night after i shut the kiln down i was inspecting temperatures i noticed one inverters seemed warmer than the other then i realized its fan wasn't running and the other which was cooler was still blasting.
I've never taken the covers off these thing wondering if there's any old timers out that know this system. I imagine it could be a failed fan motor or a thermal switch.it seems like it has 2 or three levels of fan power. you can see some of my pottery here riverpottery.com
Its working great. I start it out about 5 am on the grid then as the sun comes up my grid tied panels kick in . If the sun is working they contribute about 6 of the 11 kw that is required. at 3pm when rates double I switch to my off grid batteries and finish the firing . The SW's don't blink running at max rated load (resistive load power factor is one helps) but they do roar with the fans blasting at max. anyway last night after i shut the kiln down i was inspecting temperatures i noticed one inverters seemed warmer than the other then i realized its fan wasn't running and the other which was cooler was still blasting.
I've never taken the covers off these thing wondering if there's any old timers out that know this system. I imagine it could be a failed fan motor or a thermal switch.it seems like it has 2 or three levels of fan power. you can see some of my pottery here riverpottery.com
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