| Recharging Your Batteries |
Recharging Your Batteries | |
Low Battery light | If the Low Battery light illuminates on the TS400 and you hear the low |
| battery alarm, your battery level is low (less than 10.7 volts). As long as |
| the Inverter ON light is illuminated on the TS400, the unit will continue |
| to supply inverter power to your equipment. |
| However, Xantrex highly recommends that you recharge your battery. |
| Turn off your equipment and recharge your battery. When the Low |
| Battery light and the audible alarm turn off (at 12.6 volts), you can restart |
| your equipment. See “Restarting or Operating Multiple Pieces of |
| Equipment”. |
Importance of | Xantrex recommends that you recharge your batteries before they are |
recharging | 50% discharged. This gives them a much longer life cycle than recharging |
| them when they are almost completely discharged. See “Battery State of |
| Charge” on page |
More information | For more information about battery chargers and battery monitors, see the |
| Xantrex web site at www.xantrex.com. |
Recovering from Low Battery Voltage Shutdown
If the Low Battery light illuminates, you hear an alarm, and the Inverter ON light on the front panel turns off when you are operating the unit, the TS400 has shut down due to low battery voltage (10.3 volts). Output power is interrupted.
To recover from a low battery voltage shutdown:
1.Turn off your equipment and recharge your battery. The alarm will turn off when battery voltage reaches 11.6 volts.
2.When the Low Battery light turns off (12.6 volts) and the Inverter ON light illuminates, you can restart your equipment.
Restarting or Operating Multiple Pieces of Equipment
The TS400 can handle several pieces of equipment simultaneously as long as they do not draw more than 400 watts in total.
To restart or operate several pieces of equipment:
◆Turn each device on separately after the TS400 has started.
This action ensures that the TS400 does not have to deliver the starting current for all the loads at once and will help to prevent an overload shutdown.
