Hello All
I really hate running the 10KW diesel towards the end of a charge cycle, it just makes me crazier. I keep it loaded down with some sort of resistance heater that isn't truly a waste but it still gets to me.
A few years ago I was having the same issues and asked on the Outback forum if I could feed rectified power out of my Honda EU2000i to my MX60 and somebody told me no, because of voltage spikes or some such.
So the question is can I feed one of my Classic 200's the rectified power from the Honda because of the higher input voltage than my old retired MX60? Or should I quit trying to think and just feed the noisy beast.
Thanks
Wade
This can be done, BUT there are a few things I have found.
First if the generator is to large it becomes quite stiff and this can cause damage. So with that in mind if it is a real large generator than a resistor in series on the positive lead may help soften that up. Now the second issue is AC ripple after the rectifiers. I found it to be to high for my liking so I added some extra capacitance to smooth this out. I run in Hydro mode set to Manual and Minimum voltage set to match MPPT voltage and I run around 131vdc for both. (But please do the process below as the final number depends on the softness of the genny)
What you want to do is start with a real high voltage for both of those and bump them down a little at a time. The wattage will go up slowly in the beginning but as you get close to the sweet spot it goes up fast. I also have my output current limit set for what I know is the max my genny wants to ever deal with (In my case 55 amps) My generator is smaller than my Classic in wattage so the Classic can stall the generator. This is a good thing for the Classic but requires us to sneak up on the sweat spot. I run mine down 5 volts at a time until I was getting close than I went to 2 volt increments. You drop the hydro voltages and press Enter to save them then hit Status to go back to the main menu. Now press Enter to force a new sweep.
As you can see form the picture mine is happily chugging diesel fuel to make KWH this am ::)
I have a white paper on this let me see if I can dig it up and amend it and I will link it here.
Ryan