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hi

jeff cote with pacific yacht systems

here we are in the xantrex corner of

the pacific yacht systems booth

and what i'm trying to well not trying

what i'm trying to demonstrate hearing

is the freedom xc2000

inverter charger first you'll notice how

light this looks

relatively not bad this is a high

frequency inverter

and much lighter than a true sine wave

they're both two shrine waves but this

is a low frequency inverter this is a

high frequency inverter

what that means is that this inverter is

going to be what how we would recommend

it is for users that

don't need an inverter but want an

inverter if you absolutely need an

inverter and your boat is

a heavy user of ac power and continuous

then we'll definitely recommend a low

frequency more so robust

and definitely almost double the price

also xantrax inverter charger

but if you're sort of i want an inverter

i don't need one

and i'm going to use it sort of

intermittently and i'm not sure what i'm

going to do with it but i might use some

loads but i

it's not a must-have item then you know

what this is definitely worth

considering the cost of entry is half of

the

low frequency inverter charger pretty

light compact as you can see i mean it's

very narrow

this is actually a 2001 inverter it's

practically half the size

of the bigger one it comes with an adm

charger

so we install a lot of boats sail boats

even smaller power boats

where they don't need a large inverter

we'll end up putting this on board

it's going to be great for charging the

batteries remember an inverter charger

is a single output device

so it can only charge one battery bank

if you have multiple battery banks

you're going to have to install

the echo charge a xantrax product or a

battery another battery combiner could

be

a blue seize automatic combiner relay or

bep voltage sense relay regardless

they're all different type of battery

combiners and it's a way for you to

share

a charge from one battery to multiple

batteries

they come with a remote display that

looks identical to this so you don't

need the remote if the inverter is

mounted in a really appropriately

easily accessible location you can do

everything from here or you can do

everything from a remote location

with this exact sort of display

straightforward to install

make sure you read the manual i can't

stress this enough

having been invited and i thank everyone

for bringing me on board their boat

thousands of boats i'd say that probably

less than one percent of inverters are

properly

installed and that's the challenge is

the manual

it's thick it's intimidating and most

people don't take the time to read them

if you follow the manual to the letter

you'll have a properly and safely

installed inverter

if you don't then what's going to happen

is you're just

not going to realize certain steps that

you missed it's

doing an inverter is not something you

just want to do

you want to actually do it you want to

do it properly and the way to do it

properly is to educate yourself

and by doing that you read the manual a

few things to highlight

notice there's a chassis ground here

connection that's often overlooked

most people don't end up having the

chassis ground also making sure that the

right cable sizes are connected to an

inverter charger

right so there's going to be a table and

you want to follow abyc's

recommendations in service cable sizing

for voltage drop and opacity

and then you want to make sure that you

have a switch to be able to turn on and

off

the service disconnect switch like a big

manual switch like it looks like a

battery switch

and also fuse you want to make sure that

this inverter charger is also fused

at the source of power the batteries

and obviously you need an ac breaker

coming into the device

there needs to be a circuit breaker for

this device so this is the xc2000

they also make this in a 1000 and they

also make a true

just inverter in 3000. now i've heard

rumors that they're coming out with an

xc3000 as well so that means that you're

going to have a high frequency inverter

in

1000 watt 2000 watt and 3 000 watt and

this is actually the size of the 1000

watt over here

so if you've got further questions on

the xc line of inverter chargers or tips

we've got articles on our website on how

to do it yourself

install in our monthly column tech talk

and you can actually

look in the search engine on our website

and find those articles

about installing an inverter on your

boat

by yourself and doing it properly thanks

for watching