Hey guys.
I’m living off grid at the moment, using an 8kw solar system with battery storage. I have a workshop here and I use a large air compressor almost everyday. It’s usually fine, but sometimes it can trip the inverter on startup.
It’s a 240v Chicago Air Hush 150 compressor, so it has 4 individual 750w motors. Each motor has an individual on/off switch and it’s own breaker, so I can turn one or two motors off if the battery’s are low, but whichever motors are switched on are activated by the one pressure switch simultaneously.
I’m hoping to take a bit of strain off the inverter by delaying the start up of each motor consecutively by a few seconds when the pressure switch is activated.
Can anyone offer advice on an easy way to do this? Delay timers etc?..
Thanks
I’m living off grid at the moment, using an 8kw solar system with battery storage. I have a workshop here and I use a large air compressor almost everyday. It’s usually fine, but sometimes it can trip the inverter on startup.
It’s a 240v Chicago Air Hush 150 compressor, so it has 4 individual 750w motors. Each motor has an individual on/off switch and it’s own breaker, so I can turn one or two motors off if the battery’s are low, but whichever motors are switched on are activated by the one pressure switch simultaneously.
I’m hoping to take a bit of strain off the inverter by delaying the start up of each motor consecutively by a few seconds when the pressure switch is activated.
Can anyone offer advice on an easy way to do this? Delay timers etc?..
Thanks
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