soft starting single phase motor


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Godoh
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Joined: 26/09/2020
Location: Australia
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Posted: 05:21am 19 Mar 2026      

Hi KeepIS. The home made inverter has an aliexpress board, there is a current adjustment but it is one of those multi turn pots. It has no instructions on how to calibrate it at all. I have set the voltage settings by adjusting the pots while using a benchtop power supply, so the high and low voltage settings work fine.
But current adjustment doesn't really seem to do much.
The aliexpress board is a 5kw board, it runs my other stuff fine. But with  the new splitter it  just spits the dummy.
Honestly I have no ideas on how to load the inverter up to set current settings, I don't have a big enough dummy load to use.
My battery bank is a 24 volt 660 ampere hour VRLA bank.
Pete