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Recharging Your Batteries
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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
recharging
Xantrex recommends that you recharge your batteries before they are
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 B–8.
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.