XW6048 - Possible to Disable Generator Pass-through?

Re: XW6048 - Possible to Disable Generator Pass-through?

fowlerrudi wrote: »

Hey folks,
Does anyone know if it is possible to disable generator pass through mode on my xw? When my battery is low I fire up a 5500 watt gas genny. It first takes care of the loads in the house then charges with the rest. I want to have it not run the house, but only charge the battery. Main reason is dirty generator power. Other reason is because it can't handle big loads. I charge at the rated 5500 watts, 300 might go to the house and the rest to the battery. When the water pump kicks in it loads up genny and it might kick out for a bit but will retry and come back. If I set my max charge rate down this won't happen but then I only get the generator partially loaded for most of its run time. Of course I dont want to hear it twice as long either. Possible?

If your generator power is dirty, I doubt the XW would qualify it. What makes you think it's dirty? AC2 input is more relaxed to allow generator, AC1 is closer to grid specs.
But you should be able to enable Gen Support via the SCP or the Combox. Xantrex has some odd limitations/assumptions, to keep you from using all your generator power, eventually, reading through the appendix of the manual, you find the AC2 breaker setting limits power to 20% of what you put in, and then gen support adds another 20%. The way I was able to power and charge with my generator (3Kw antique diesel at 1400' elevation, wants to be loaded or it carbons up). I use the following settings to get a solid 2700w load on the genset. AC2 19.5A Gen support 13.1A Battery charge 40A Any power not going into loads, is used for charging, my normal base loads limit my charging to about 35A. any loads exceeding the capacity of the generator, get assisted by the inverter, inverting. When loads drop, charging resumes. To load your generator to it's continuous rating, you will have to fiddle around with things a bit. I did it by kicking the AC2 breaker setting to 40A, loading the charger up, and ratcheting down the AC2 setting till the charge dropped off. Then the same with Gen Support setting. Now that it's dialed in, and when the diesel is warm, the wife can put the toast in the toaster, reheat coffee in the microwave, and I just watch the meters swing around + or - on the Combox monitor.
Wintertime, I have to occasionally run the pump to refill 6,000 gallon tanks, and it's from the genset, and battery charging gets the rest.