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Posted by Ulysses on May 15, 2008, 11:34 am
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> >> My brother scored a used xantrex prosine 1000 and I just plumbed it
> >> into the hydro system.. man its nice. Clean pure sine waves and its
> >> (so far) waaay more efficient than the last crapola inverter I had.
> >>
> >> Now i'm looking for a remote panel so I can watch it from in the
> >> house -- the remote panels seem to only have a 25 foot cable.. anyone
> >> had success making a longer cable? Like 100 feet? I'd guess its
> >> some kind of simple cross over but guessing isn't the same as knowing
> >> har har har
> >>
> >> -z
> >
> > My TriMetric instructions say "the meter may be located hundreds of
> > feet away...". It also says you need four wires and "it would be
> > advisable to use twisted pairs if any other power wires are being run
> > near asd parallel with these, however it should not be necessary
> > otherwise." I'm just using about three feet of phone wire and it
> > works fine.
> >
> > The wire that measures the current needs to be connected to a shunt.
> > Do you have one? That would be in the DC distribution/breaker panel.
> > Do you have one of those? Mine says to use either a 50mv/500 amp
> > shunt or 100mv/100 amp shunt connected to the negative side of the
> > battery. With the TriMetric you have to tell it which shunt you have.
> >
> > I have not used any other battery monitors but I've read that some
> > others out there have a lot more features. Mine does what I want and
> > seems to work just fine except it reads a little low on the voltage
> > display on a 48 volt system.
> >
> >
> >
>
> aha!
>
> finally dug out this titbit from within the xantrex site (I swear I
> looked for this earlier)
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> Can I extend the remote panel cord?
>
> The total length of the cord can be 100 ft (30 m) to the Standard Control
> Panel, or 50 ft (15 m) to the ACS (Advanced Control Panel). The cord can
> be replaced with a longer cable available from Xantrex. A standard, good
> quality telephone extension cord (#26AWG wire size or bigger) can also be
> used. If your original cable has an EMI shield (a 1 inch bulge about 5
> inches from the end of the cable), keep the EMI shielded end plugged into
> Prosine and use the extension cord on the panel side. For optimum
> performance, always use the original cable.
>
>
> So we're good!
>
> -z
It looks like I completely misunderstood what you were asking! I had a
crappy/cheapo inverter that had a remote panel option but I forgot all about
it (one of those items you want to put out of your mind ;-) )
How's the hydro doing? I think the last thing I read was you were getting 4
amps. I finally broke the 50 watt barrier with my eu2000 wind generator--it
momentarily read 4 amps at about 12.6 volts with some new blades I made from
PVC sewer pipe. And that was in a very bad location on a 4' post with a 50
foot extension cord going to the rectifiers. For some strange reason I'm
getting better results with shorted blades and a smaller sweep area. This
goes against everything I've read.
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