Solution to keep gaming during loadshedding

feedmeee said:
Okay, you think it won't handle a tvtoo? Think it's 300. The wattage is under 1440 total but will the batteries handle it
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Well if you want to use 1440w you'll drain the 50% of the batteries in about 45 minutes maybe 40.
 
This generator might be a good buy for load shedding. I have one that looks identically to this one but from a different manufacturer. Mine is running for quite a few years already without problems.
It helped me to keep 2 x 24V inverters charged, including a deep-freeze and refrigerator, during our 2-day power outage this week. All at once.

Trade Professional 2kW Petrol Inverter Generator

This might also be a good buy for a different application.

Trade Professional 1200 4 Stroke - 1.0kW 2.9HP Stroke Petrol Generator
 
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Yo I have a question.

So last night my Inverter started beeping and flashing '25%' - this is the first time it has done this.
I was gaming a pretty GPU/CPU intensive game (warhammer 3), had my phone charging and my fan on, and my fiber.

I exited the game and it when from saying 25% to 75%

I wonder if I pulled too much power? My PC draws about 550w I reckon. Screen 45w, fan 40w.
Perhaps something else caused it? Or my batteries degraded already?
 
Yep too much power pulled if you drained battery till it start beeping then you went way to far. You have to keep deep cycle batteries above 50%. You have to really make sure keep it above 50% as it's going degrade pretty quickly now.
 
InternetSwag said:
Yo I have a question.

So last night my Inverter started beeping and flashing '25%' - this is the first time it has done this.
I was gaming a pretty GPU/CPU intensive game (warhammer 3), had my phone charging and my fan on, and my fiber.

I exited the game and it when from saying 25% to 75%

I wonder if I pulled too much power? My PC draws about 550w I reckon. Screen 45w, fan 40w.
Perhaps something else caused it? Or my batteries degraded already?
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Yup to much power :(
 
Gtx Gaming said:
Yep too much power pulled if you drained battery till it start beeping then you went way to far. You have to keep deep cycle batteries above 50%. You have to really make sure keep it above 50% as it's going degrade pretty quickly now.
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The joys of lead acid.
 
InternetSwag said:
I wonder if I pulled too much power? My PC draws about 550w I reckon. Screen 45w, fan 40w.
Perhaps something else caused it? Or my batteries degraded already?
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Dead-acid doesn't like a big drain,rapidly cuts their cycles
 
InternetSwag said:
Yo I have a question.

So last night my Inverter started beeping and flashing '25%' - this is the first time it has done this.
I was gaming a pretty GPU/CPU intensive game (warhammer 3), had my phone charging and my fan on, and my fiber.

I exited the game and it when from saying 25% to 75%

I wonder if I pulled too much power? My PC draws about 550w I reckon. Screen 45w, fan 40w.
Perhaps something else caused it? Or my batteries degraded already?
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As everyone else has said, don't drain a lead-acid battery, they exhibit very unique characteristics.
The more load you put on them, the more voltage droop you get, which leads to a faster drain.
Once they're completely drained, after a few cycles, might as well use them as a doorstop.
 
Faux_Grey said:
As everyone else has said, don't drain a lead-acid battery, they exhibit very unique characteristics.
The more load you put on them, the more voltage droop you get, which leads to a faster drain.
Once they're completely drained, after a few cycles, might as well use them as a doorstop.
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I know with ours, it cuts the electricity to the house if they get to 50% to protect them.
 
w1z4rd said:
I think its done at around 50% because dropping the batteries lower than that significantly lowers their life expectancy.
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I've had one for 7 years, it goes to 10% as it's pretty dumb.
 
We talk about 50%, 30%, 10%. The problem is that batteries don't work on percentages. The only measure we have is resting voltage.

So it's no use relying on the inverter "%" indicator either, as each inverter has a different cut off voltage.

That is why the recommendation is to not drain your LA battery below 12.0V resting voltage (not under load).

The Mecer takes it down to 11V! Which is basically roasted to hell.
 
Gaz{M} said:
We talk about 50%, 30%, 10%. The problem is that batteries don't work on percentages. The only measure we have is resting voltage.

So it's no use relying on the inverter "%" indicator either, as each inverter has a different cut off voltage.

That is why the recommendation is to not drain your LA battery below 12.0V resting voltage (not under load).

The Mecer takes it down to 11V! Which is basically roasted to hell.
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This
 
Gaz{M} said:
We talk about 50%, 30%, 10%. The problem is that batteries don't work on percentages. The only measure we have is resting voltage.

So it's no use relying on the inverter "%" indicator either, as each inverter has a different cut off voltage.

That is why the recommendation is to not drain your LA battery below 12.0V resting voltage (not under load).

The Mecer takes it down to 11V! Which is basically roasted to hell.
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true, only with proper communication between the battery and the inverters could you get a more "accurate" battery bar. Hell even the 5kw I have I got to rely on the batteries themselves to tell me how far they are, cause Mecer doesn't talk to the batteries properly :-(
 
We use a generator. We have the larger one, but this one should go with your budget. You will need to run leads and obviously there is the annoyance of switching over. We integrated ours into our DB so switch over is easy. The work to integrate into our DB was not very expensive (I think another R5k or R6k for our setup). Ours runs our entire house (except pool, aircons, geysers, stove, oven and things like the kettle (we use a gas stove for that)).

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I am very skeptical about the longevity of these inverters currently on the market.
 
Emjay said:
We use a generator. We have the larger one, but this one should go with your budget. You will need to run leads and obviously there is the annoyance of switching over. We integrated ours into our DB so switch over is easy. The work to integrate into our DB was not very expensive (I think another R5k or R6k for our setup). Ours runs our entire house (except pool, aircons, geysers, stove, oven and things like the kettle (we use a gas stove for that)).

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I am very skeptical about the longevity of these inverters currently on the market.
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Do these generators need any servicing? TBH i know ziltch about generators.
 
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