Tips - How to Use an Inverter/Charger Remote Control on a Boat
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here we are on the cruiser 420 Express and we're looking at the remote control of an inverter charger that we've recently installed aboard this boat and the reason for that is to give the owner the ability of actually deciding what to do with that inverter charger is the inverter charger going to be as the inverter function going to be on it's a charge you're going to be on or off the whole device going to be off and also getting some status updates as to maybe potentially what is the charger doing is the charger seeing AC power is the charger or inverter charger in an overload situation what is the battery temperature to a hot ru bulk charging absorption charging and all of that can happen here at the remote control for this Victor on inverter charger and here's where it is so basically it's a pretty simple remote control and there's a little toggle here and the lo toggle basically has three states you have the charger only mode which is all the way here to the right and then you have off so that would mean inverter and charger are both off or you have inverter on and also charger on potentially if there's AC sensing so that would be actually the easiest mode that the toggle to the left would be the easiest mode where whenever the AC is sensed on the inverter the charger comes on and if ever they lose is AC and their sense a load on the AC inverter outlets or microwave or one dot then the inverter kicks on as well so for owners that just want convenience they would put it at inverter on charger arm which is on the left side if on the other hand you want to start managing power and you're really conservative then you might leave it on charger on all the time and only put it on inverter on charger on sometimes when you are planning on using your inverter maybe because you're just being cautious and you want to stay at anger longer without having to run the generator or run the alternators to recharge your house battery tank the other thing that's interesting about this remote panel is that it actually makes it really easy to dial in what is and you can notice I can actually change that dial what is the AC input coming in to the shore power receptacle so some your boat might have a 50 amp receptacle a 30 amp receptacle but sometimes you might be connecting to a dock that it was only giving you 15 amp and so you want to dial that back in so it's a way of saying the inverter charger by the way we don't have that much power coming in so instead of blowing the breaker and overloading potentially the AC input coming into the inverter charger this is a way for you to dial it back so that you don't have nuisance tripping on the inverter charger you
