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Guys,
I went down the route of a 100 amp charger powered by the Honda 2000i. I did all the calcs and sought advice from the charger supplier. I theory it should work.
In practice I've found that the 2000i is a wisker underpowered to drive the 100 amp charger when its feeding batteris at full wack and cuts out on the overpower trip. As soon as the current draw drops to about 96 amps the Honda can just about handle it.
My "work around" is to start up the Honda and switch on the charger for periods of about 10 seconds only. This period is short enough to avoid the Honda sensing an overpower situation cutting out. In my system the current draw seems to drop quite quickly to about 95 amps allowing me to leave the charger switched on.
I suspect there must be away of adjusting the Honda's overpower cutout slighlty but havn't spent to much time on this.
The other solution for me is to have the charger down rated to 95 amps, something the supplier has offer to do.
Hope this helps
Leighton.
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