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Tilerpep wrote on Wed, 14 March 2018 10:16Update
More info, and a few experiments:
The 78 had a West Marine 150 combiner, which has a little label hidden on the back that said it was a Yandina and it needed the "minimum six feet of 6 gauge or less wire" connecting it (which it did not have). The Yandina site says this particular model is discontinued. I bought six feet of 8 gauge wire, split it to three foot sections and moved the Yandina/West Marine unit to the 75, keeping the isolator. Wow, 8 gauge was overkill, and too stiff to work with easily. I forget (have read on here before) why the six feet is needed.
I installed the new victron combiner in the 78 (no isolator). It did not say anything about six feet of lead wire, so I used the previous connectors.
Yesterday I worked in the 78 with all the interior lights and running lights on to load both systems while I fiddled with a new rotor, cap, timing and bunch of other systems. It did cycle the combiner, but not too often, and the noise is less of a clunk. With only the house side loaded, it seemed to cycle less than the Yandina.
I paid about $50 for the Victron, and Jim K has the Yandina 100 for $65 with the wiring premade. The Victron does not have an indicator light telling you when it is combining, the Yandina does. I think I would go with Jim K's Yandina if I were doing another one, both are a nice addition to stock setup.
Tyler,
The 6 feet of wire is an over current protection.
The light load Yandina are a very different animal than most anything else. The contacts are not very robust. They (she) changed this in the later versions.
Because the calibration of these devices is kind of critical, most that I know of do cycle when not in an overt charging situation. It will survive the cycle life. I installed more than a few of them before BHO put us out of business. I also did replace a few, but not a huge number. Some just wore out and a few did die of a control circuit failure. Yandina did cover those.
Matt
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