Installing new Xantrex RS3000

[mbrund]

THe RS3000 is the same, you can tell it what the input breaker size
is so that when it is in power share mode (i.e. charger is charging
batteries) it will reduce the charger input power to insure the
input breaker does not trip. The RS3000 battery charger only pulls
power from circuit 1. So I will need to make sure that the circuit
with the two AC's on them is on the opposite circuit to insure I get
max charge potential.

Michael Brundridge
92 WB40
Georgetown, TX


--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "sfedeli3" <sfedeli3@...>
wrote:
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> Two years ago, I installed at ProSine 2.0 in the Rediline/charger
> compartment. There was a 12/3 cable running up through grey plastic
> conduit to the closet behind the bedroom. It took some silicone
> grease, but I was able to pull the old rediline wire out and run
10/2
> and the phone duplex cord for the ProSine's control panel up
through
> the same conduit and behind the 48" flourescent wall sconce in the
> bedroom to the closet where the main breaker panel is located. I
ended
> up pulling 4 circuits out of the main panel and relocating them to
a
> smaller 30A sub panel in the closet behind the main breaker panel.
The
> 110V supply for the charger side of the inverter was already
routed to
> a duplex outlet in the charger compartment. I seem to recall that
> being 12/2 wire, and I've had no problems with the breaker tripping
> when there is a 100A charge dumping into the batteries. You can
> program the ProSine to know the size of the breaker.
>
> Shane Fedeli
> 85PT40
> Hershey, PA
>
> --- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "mbrund" <mbrund@> wrote:
> >
> > Well here goes nothing. Ripped out the old Heart 2000 and twin
Iota
> > 45's today. Pulled the charger electrical box and the jbox for
the
> > inverted circuit off the firewall. The conduit is too small
(1/2")
> > for the new 50AMP circuits that need to be run to and from the
new
> > Xantrex RS3000. So will have to cut a larger hole in the floor
> > behind the curb side draw in the bed room below the circuit
breaker
> > panel into the engine comparment next to the old circuits. Will
> > then run teo new 3/4" liquid tight conduits from there to the
> > inverter box above the batteries.
> >
> > Will need to pull the original 50 AMP circuit at the coach
breaker
> > panel and run it to a new 50 AMP breaker panel. Will mount the
new
> > breaker panel behind the current breaker panel but facing the
other
> > direction into the shirt closet, will cut an access panel in the
> > shirt closet upper left storage area so the breaker cab be reset
if
> > it trips. Will then need to run out of this breaker panel to
the
> > inverter input. Then return from the inverter to the original
50
> > AMP breaker in the coach. The down side is that everything in
the
> > coach will be able to be on the inverter when shore power is
lost.
> > But I plan to add the Auto-generator start to the RS3000 so if I
> > lose shore power it will start the generator when the batteries
get
> > down to a set voltage.
> >
> > Anyone else been down this road? If so would be interested in
> > hearing what you did.
> >
> > I know some have replaced the original Heart with a Xantrex
RS2000,
> > the issue they may or may not know is that the RS2000/3000
doesn't
> > have a built in circuit breaker. The old Heart inverters in our
> > coaches have a 15 amp breaker on the inverted circuit. The way
the
> > older WB's are designed requires a circuit breaker in the
inverter
> > as there is no breaker on the inverted side of the coach AC
circuits
> > due to the way the WB engineers designed using relays vs a 2nd
> > breaker panel. So if you have swapped your inverter out, please
> > make sure that either your inverter is a built-in circuit
breaker,
> > or that you have added an external breaker to the inverted
circuit.
> >
> > Michael Brundridge
> > 92 WB40
> > Georgetown, TX
> >
>