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hi everyone jeff cote here with

boatingtechtalk.com and today we're

doing product

box opening

we've got something that i'm kind of

actually really excited about this is

the xantrax xc2000 pro marine unit this

is a

inverter that is built for the marine

environment and

i'm actually going to be installing this

inverter on my own boat i

got this inverter just last week and

we're going to be opening this for the

first time together

so xantrax is a really reputable

manufacturer of inverter chargers

they've got a long history in that space

and they've come out with they've had

the xc2000 for a while now but these are

sort of improvements they have the

xc2000 xc2000 pro and now this is the

xc2000 marine

all right with that everyone again jeff

cote with

votingtechtalk.com and we're going to

dive in we're going to open this box so

a little bit about uh this inverter why

i do this one of the things to think

about is that this inverter is basically

2000 watts but what's even cool about

this one is it actually has a 100 amp 12

volt charger

this is significant uh

12

100 amp is actually pretty big um

and a lot of us are actually going to be

buying an inverter charger not

necessarily just for the inverter but

because we want a significant charger to

be able to recharge our batteries at the

right

charge rate that's called car charge

acceptance rate and this one here comes

with a 100 amp charger so that's pretty

good

2 000 watt but it can actually do peak

of 4 000 so for those large uh motor

loads that are called inductive loads

you can do that which is great so with

that we're going to get a little bit

started all right so i think this is

going to do this properly here

all right let me open it a little bit

more

this also inverter which is cool has all

these different charge profiles you can

do right all of us are not having the

same batteries on our boat there's a lot

of choice out there right so you can

have flooded agm firefly lithium or even

custom charge profiles so we've actually

installing previous models of this that

have this capability we're actually

going in and we're actually programming

right on the remote what we want for a

charge profile for a smart charging

profile okay so with that we're going to

open up a little bit

all right look at this

brand new

first time all right do you want to come

and have a look a little bit

share with my excitement so here we've

got the manual and also these

i'm going to show this is for the ac

coming in and not out of the unit

they've made the unit white and blue and

i don't know if some of you remember but

uh soundtracks years ago basically had a

line of inverter chargers uh that were

called the freedom line

so we got to be careful these inverter

chargers are not super light they're not

incredibly heavy but they definitely do

weigh so just be careful

so

you can actually see that up front

on the display you've got a remote panel

now obviously this is not remote it's on

the unit but you can actually buy the

identical remote and actually put it

somewhere else

on the boat and we generally do that so

we don't actually most of the time we

don't actually operate this unit at the

control panel on the device because most

of us are going to have these things

buried right and they're not going to be

easy to find now here's the cool part

i'm going to turn this around

and

you can actually see that what we've got

here

we actually have an nmea 2000 port

this is exciting this is finally where

now the world of our electrical is

actually coming together with our

electronics so you're going to actually

be able to integrate this into devices

to see actually what's going on on this

inverter charger and seeing that maybe

on your chart plotter

or an mf like maybe an instrument

display or something else so you don't

have to only see what's happening on a

remote panel but you'll be able to

actually get information from this

device via the enemy a2000 connector

it's the first time i've personally seen

an inverter charger with an enemy 2000

connection not to say it hasn't existed

i've never installed one and this is

going to be the first time we're going

to do that

so if you're looking at the ports

so this is where

let's have a look all right

okay

neat look at this not too hard um so if

you're looking inside and you can see

the positive and negative and notice

what they did which is really good

they're actually labeling the positive

and negative the other thing too is

notice they've got some

plastic rings inside to stop for chafing

which is great and then look at what

they've done here for the ac side right

really easily you can plug those in you

lift those up

and you're actually going to go through

these little openings and these little

openings actually have

fittings that you can put in here which

is kind of neat that's great and so the

ac is going to come on side

while they even have a usb for testing

and

uh they've got a battery temperature

sensor which the other ones didn't which

i'm a big fan of so that's a battery

temperature sensor for uh temperature

compensating the charge profile and this

is a little port for connecting the

remote panel

really nice um

notice too they did a good job with the

lug

for the chassis ground which is great

and they even have a tiny little fuse

inside

uh the unit now mind you you got to

remember um we're actually obviously

going to be fusing this device

at the battery and we're also going to

have an on off disconnect switch clearly

chassis ground is right here and then

think about all these things that this

thing can do right we talked about 100

amp charger we talked about custom

charge profile which is pretty neat uh

so that you can actually tailor it to

the battery bank you have on your boat

it also enables you because inverters

can be connected to what's called a

pass-through so you can actually have

this device seeing your ac loads

and it gives you the ability of not

having to transfer between inverter and

shore but actually you can have a subset

of your ac loads or all your ac loads go

through this and this has actually a 30

amp

uh capability for pass-through which is

great

again this is this is pro i mean this is

basically what you want out of an

inverter i think what i would say for

people that are considering this

inverter the big thing would be that

it's relatively compact

um lightweight as well uh you know it's

not that bad right uh so many of us are

gonna be able to actually find a place

for this unit on our boat and the reason

why we're gonna do that is to run these

sort of what are we gonna do with an

inverter we're gonna run refrigeration

uh we're gonna maybe run

laptop chargers tvs

blender like i've actually run off a the

xc2000

a nespresso machine we had a little bit

of a youtube video on that and that's

what actually was running on my boat

with an xc2000 this is the xc2000 pro

marine so i'm kind of anxious of putting

that on board

and that's about it not too hard

remember when you're going to be sizing

the cabling that are going to come on

the dc side clearly you're going to want

to make sure that you include voltage

drop so most likely it's probably going

to be two watt wiring uh that's pretty

big it's the size of about a thumb and

then on the ac side you're definitely

going to want to have 10 3 so that's

gage 10 triplex right so you're going to

have hot neutral and ground and make

sure also that the breaker that size for

this is actually able to handle the

current going to it so you're going to

actually have to change the breaker to

probably a 30 amp breaker going in

and then this would feed the ac loads

that potentially can also be run not

only on shore power but also on the

inverter it has low voltage disconnects

that are customizable which is great it

also can take a high charging voltage so

some batteries now because of external

regulators are actually when the

alternator charging are 15 15 and a half

volts it's not that they're overcharging

they're charging higher charge voltage

to compensate for a lower battery

temperature so this actually is allows

tolerance for that so that you don't get

these sort of annoying alarms and you're

freaking out this does that too i mean

there's a lot more to talk about but i

am thrilled to have this installed on my

boat i cannot wait i think it looks

great and

it's a further refinement of the xc2000

so if you've got further questions on

this product post them down below and

thank you for geeking out with me with

our product review here at

boatingtechtalk.com and thanks for

watching from jeff cote

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