Victrons European/Int'l equipment has an input range of 187-265 VAC and 45-65hz, and outputs 230 or 240 VAC at 50hz or 60hz

[tictag]

And here I thought + was negative and - was positive South of the equator.

Do you know, I had never considered that ... I mean their water goes around plug-holes the wrong way .....

 

[Dzl]

That's not strictly true. Victron do sell products directly marketed at the US, for example, MultiPlus and Quattro both have 120V variants, as do their Pheonix inverters. And probably more but I got bored of looking. And of course, the majority of their kit runs off DC, which, unless somebody knows more than I do, is remarkably similar both sides of the pond.

Victron's European/Int'l equipment...

I admittedly used N.America-centric language. But I'm referring to the much broader range of products available to those countries using 230V single phase.


For instance in N.A.
Inverter/Chargers: we get the Multiplus, but not the Multiplus 2, the Easysolar or the Easyplus
Chargers: We don't get the Phoenix Smart Charger IP43 (which looks like a cool little charger)
Inverters: The lowpower Phoenix line, but not the high power Phoenix compact, Phoenix Smart, or Inverter RS Smart

But you made me realize the title is unclear and makes it appear that all Victron's non N.A. products have the specs I mentioned in the title when really I only looked at maybe 4 or 5 offerings. Really this post was just meant to refer to some of the product offerings available outside N.A.

 

[tictag]

Inverter/Chargers: we get the Multiplus, but not the Multiplus 2, the Easysolar or the Easyplus ......

A fair point.

 

[Dzl]

But mostly I make these posts because I let my mind wander too far and think too much, and need to be reminded why something is impractical or a bad idea...

 

[Archetype-IS]

But mostly I make these posts because I let my mind wander too far and think too much, and need to be reminded why something is impractical or a bad idea...

Here is the video explain in great technical details how Victron converts DC to AC, why their inverts could change some components to meet each region voltages and frequencies. It applies to all inverters actually. Same principles. DC to FET low voltage AC sine wave and transformer to higher voltage, finally conditioning and filter the sinewave to make it clean for output delivery.

Everyone should watch it from Victron.

 

[Archetype-IS]

This may be a dumb question (my specialty) but would an output of 240 V / 60 Hz actually be useful for anything. Same numbers as split phase, but its not split phase, does that matter, would US 240V appliances work like this.

I asked an youtuber devildestiny555 about MPP Solar 5048MK inverter that does 240v @ 60hz in the US market. He is able to use it to run the house mini-splits with it offgrid for around two years now. His answer was, if is 240v @ 60hz and the appliances could take that, it doesn't care, 240v split phase or single phase, it will work. When delivering 240v in the US, it is using two hot wires, L1 and L2. There is no neutral wire to the outlet. The MPP could change the output frequency between 50/60hz.