T&T: Installing two inverter/chargers on one battery bank

[Arild Jensen]

> -----Original Message-----
>I will be purchasing an inverter soon and have wondered about using two
> 2,000 watt xantrex inverters with two battery banks say 4 golf cart
> batteries on each one or a 2500 watt inverter with 6 golf cart batteries.
> What I was hoping to accomplish by the two would be the ability to run a
> 7-9000 BTU A/C to cool the bedrooms off at night off one inverter and
> everything else of the other (fridg,tv and lights)but I am not
> sure this is feasable ?
> Any opinions? What is involved with using two inverters instead of one?>>

MARK  replied.
> I'd favor the single inverter mode. >>> snip<<< If you separate the loads
into two inverter
> systems (air cond and other), you will be wasting half your battery
capacity
> when the air conditioning is not in use.



REPLY
Who says you have to split the battey bank just because you have two
inverters?
The system will work fine with all batteries combined into one bank but two
seperate inverters for each to handle their own dedicated loads.

I have about 126 system's rigged exactly like that and one of them is using
a Xantrex Prosine pair.
Since both inverter/chargers are identical the charge algorithm wil ensuer
very nearly equal behaviour during chare and transititon from stage to
stage.  No Problem!



regards
Arild