11-22-2022, 05:52 AM
Good morning to all I hope I can live up to everything I've been preaching. 
Yesterday was a good day I removed both Coleman units and must admit these things are heavy at least a couple hundred pounds each, we have forks attachment on our little tractor so it made it a little easier but to my surprise what I thought to be mounting screws for the units were not, these units where not mounted in any way the duct work was cobbled with bits and pieces of wood and insulation and a lot of duct tape and silicon. The input voltage on these two units is says on the plate is 120vac but they had 220vac going to them both, this means I would have never been cool or warm on a 30 amp service as you all have said. The aquahot heat exchanger was plumbed into the output duct of the system and the aquahot didn't work when I bought this thing but I got it working for awhile but smelled antifreeze when I turned on the heat pump fan, someone in the past forgot to tighten both clamps on the hoses so the antifreeze smell was coming from that, I'm blessed it didn't blow the end of the hose off and really make a mess.
Yes sir Forest you can get 240vac from 2 inverters that has only 120vac coming into them (refer to page 31 of the growatt manual I'm attaching), these new inverters open a world of possibility's you can even make 3 phase 120vac with 3 units. Growatt means you can grow wattage as you go or need. If you have time to read the back of the manual it will explain how this all works. The solar system here at our house is a solar generator not grid tied but it has saved us some money, $345 so far since mid June, we installed twelve 440W panels on the top of our pergola in the courtyard and have 2 growatt systems suppling the refrigeration and 2 inverter 1 ton mini split units, one in our bedroom and the other in a guest bedroom. We started with one growatt and only built the system to run the refrigerator and freezer in our house in case we lost electricity and it worked so well and during the day light hours it ran everything off the sun so we did another growatt to supply power to the inverter mini split ac units.
Tom I had no idea inverter technology has been around that long!
Yesterday was a good day I removed both Coleman units and must admit these things are heavy at least a couple hundred pounds each, we have forks attachment on our little tractor so it made it a little easier but to my surprise what I thought to be mounting screws for the units were not, these units where not mounted in any way the duct work was cobbled with bits and pieces of wood and insulation and a lot of duct tape and silicon. The input voltage on these two units is says on the plate is 120vac but they had 220vac going to them both, this means I would have never been cool or warm on a 30 amp service as you all have said. The aquahot heat exchanger was plumbed into the output duct of the system and the aquahot didn't work when I bought this thing but I got it working for awhile but smelled antifreeze when I turned on the heat pump fan, someone in the past forgot to tighten both clamps on the hoses so the antifreeze smell was coming from that, I'm blessed it didn't blow the end of the hose off and really make a mess.Yes sir Forest you can get 240vac from 2 inverters that has only 120vac coming into them (refer to page 31 of the growatt manual I'm attaching), these new inverters open a world of possibility's you can even make 3 phase 120vac with 3 units. Growatt means you can grow wattage as you go or need. If you have time to read the back of the manual it will explain how this all works. The solar system here at our house is a solar generator not grid tied but it has saved us some money, $345 so far since mid June, we installed twelve 440W panels on the top of our pergola in the courtyard and have 2 growatt systems suppling the refrigeration and 2 inverter 1 ton mini split units, one in our bedroom and the other in a guest bedroom. We started with one growatt and only built the system to run the refrigerator and freezer in our house in case we lost electricity and it worked so well and during the day light hours it ran everything off the sun so we did another growatt to supply power to the inverter mini split ac units.
Tom I had no idea inverter technology has been around that long!
1999 45' #504 "Magnolia"
Gravette, Arkansas
1996 40 XL Prevost Marathon