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IC 2000 inverter issue

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OburgOrange

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I have an IC 2000 inverter. The last 2 days I have noticed the red status light blinking and emitting a beeping sound. Yesterday it eventually stopped. This morning, the same thing. I shut the inverter down for a few minutes and restarted it. Green light and no beeping so far. Also noticed that the lithium batteries were down a little this morning. Only have the 12v refrigerator running as we are leaving tomorrow for a week,of dry camping. Any ideas?
 
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OburgOrange

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So dry camping right now. Woke up to completely dead solar system. We have 2 100 amp battle born. Sun started to come up, solar started to charge the batteries, left inverter on (IC 2000), ran generator for a while….
Everything back to normal. We did turn fridge to dry camping setting, didn’t know there was one. Woke up the next day, everything perfect. Left campground for 5 hours, came back, everything dead again! This morning, turned off inverter, turned off, solar, turned on converter and ran generator to charge batteries. Full charge. Now sitting in a brew pub as it is pouring rain. Will see what happens when we return.

Something is draining the system?
 
Oregon_Camper

Oregon_Camper

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Ok...I have experience with IC2000, as I installed one in our prior RV (see video here)

Did you install this or did you pay someone to install it? The one issue that comes to mind, is your factory converter is still enabled, so when you are making AC power from IC2000...it goes right back to the factory converter and charges the battery. This power loop will kill your battery for sure. With the IC2000 and a generator, you will for sure have a transfer switch installed...right?
 
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OburgOrange

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Oregon_Camper said:
Ok...I have experience with IC2000, as I installed one in our prior RV (see video here)

Did you install this or did you pay someone to install it? The one issue that comes to mind, is your factory converter is still enabled, so when you are making AC power from IC2000...it goes right back to the factory converter and charges the battery. This power loop will kill your battery for sure. With the IC2000 and a generator, you will for sure have a transfer switch installed...right?
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Good point. It was installed by the dealer and was sitting in their lot for a few weeks after install. When er were having issues about 3 weeks later we read where the converter has to be off when the inverter is on and vice versa. So yes, both were on at the same time for quite a while. After calling battle born recently, they said the batteries were not fully charged at13.5 v and the parameters on the renogy have to be changed so the batteries can be fully charged. But that doesn’t explain why on our dry camping trip just completed, that a couple mornings we woke up to completely dead batteries
 
Oregon_Camper

Oregon_Camper

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You didn't say if the factory converter has been remove/disabled...it shoudl be. The IC2000 will now be your coverter. If your factory converter is still enabled, you will always have dead batteries.

To charge lithium batteries off the IC2000, follow these directions off my Google Drive.
 
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