I'm going to show you exactly how, step
by step, to set up your Chargeverter GC for the best possible outcome. And I'm going to give you all the parts
that you're going to need for this. And at the end, I'm also going to tell you
exactly why you must have the Chargeverter or some other charger like it. So that you don't make this fatal flaw. I'm Eric with East Texas Homestead. I'm glad you're here. Let's jump right into it. After unboxing everything, the first
thing you're going to need to do is take the two metal plates and attach
them to the back of the charge verter. Make sure that you have
them flipped the right way. There's a little bit of an impression on
one side that the screw fits flush into. Now it's really important that you
make sure you're putting the charge verter onto something that is. Not gonna catch on fire, which is why
I'm using this hardy backer because This thing gets screaming hot and
in the event there was an issue and it did catch on fire You don't want
to end up burning the place down. All right, so I've mounted this
guy right here It's actually pretty secure not going anywhere. I put this piece see if we can get back
there and look Whoo goes all the way back. All right. Now that we've done that we need to
connect these guys and they're gonna go over here It's real important that
your batteries are turned off And your battery breaker is turned off right here. Make sure between these two that
you are not getting any voltage because 48 volts will kill you. So with the old charge inverter, I
basically had the wires all over the place and they were really kind of
difficult because they didn't follow the path of the rest of the wires. And so there, I had the charge were
sitting way up here and the wires going across and it was just kind
of a pain when I'm not using this. It sits right here,
and the wires are gone. And when I need to use it, I just
reach over here, grab my wires, clonk them in, and we're good to go. And whenever I'm done with them,
push the button, slide them off, tuck them behind the cabinet,
and they're out of the way. That's actually a pretty
good selling point. You may be wondering, how on
earth am I going to get this plug out to my generator? Because this is supposed to
screw into your generator, right? That's easy. The biggest drawback
to both of these units. Now, the cool thing is with this quick
disconnect, you could actually rewire this to like a 40 foot cable and then just
like run it through your door and stuff. That's not the way we're going to do it. So we're going to run over here, plug this
in, And just like that, the cable's on. This is not going to reach my generator. So what I've done right here
is I've installed a NEMA L14 30 amp female receptacle that
this is going to plug into. On the other side of the wall, we've
got this guy right here, which is the male opposite end of what we just
connected to, which allows me to plug this guy in, which then allows me to
run an even longer cable out here to the Outside my barn to my generator. Why am I going through this whole
process of utilizing the charge verter instead of just utilizing
the generator input on my inverters? And that's actually a really great
question, and I'm glad you asked, but the answer is it's actually really important. So here's the deal. When we utilize the input on the
generator right here, we're going directly from the generator to the inverter. We go, yeah, duh. But the problem is, we're going
directly from the generator to the inverter, And these generators put
out a really dirty, nasty power. You see, this thing is capable
of running at 6,500 watts, but when you get past about 3,000,
the sine wave gets all choppy. Like, I almost like to envision it, and
this is probably not super accurate, but I like to envision it just like
the generator's like shaking apart. You know, I mean, you can just
feel the crazy power of it just shaking all over the place. And that's kind of how your,
your electricity is, is flowing through it as well. And this old tired power horse
over here, it runs at 4,000 watts, but really anything over about
2,000, it starts getting nasty. So you might still be thinking, so what? Who cares about dirty power? Well, your inverter does. And from what I've heard from Signature
Solar is that the number one cause of inverter failure is dirty power. So the Chargeverter sucks up all
that dirty power and you can run at full bore on your generator and
then it converts the AC nasty dirty sine wave into a pure DC output. That goes right at the proper
voltage, nice and clean into your batteries, keeping your inverters
safe from the dirty power. If you're new to all of this, sometimes
the NEMA 14, 30, 240, whatever it is, all the numbers get a little jumbled. So what I'm going to do is
I'm going to give you a link. that you can check out and
I'm going to give you all of these parts that I've used. Every single one of them from this box
to the adapters to the cables, all of it. That way you don't have to fish through
all of the options on your own like I did. The Chargeverter really is amazing,
and it's something that is a must have if you're going to be charging
your batteries from a generator. Now, if you're new to this sort of
thing, and you're thinking about building out an off grid solar system,
check out this video right here. This is our full build on the EG4 6000XP,
and this right here is the link that's going to take you to all of the parts that
we used to get this thing set up properly. Thanks again. I'm Eric. I'll talk to you on the next one.
