How do you shut up a sterling beeping inverter?

[leeco]

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Yes I know we are below 10.5v but you don't need to beep every 2 seconds for hours

[rusty69]

Teach it to hum instead. 

[BruceinSanity]

[Afloat]

[Alan de Enfield]

1) Run the engine

2) Switch on the battery charger

3) Disconnect the inverter from the battery

4) Stop discharging your batteries so deeply

[rusty69]

5.Snip beeper wire. 

Edited September 3, 2017 by rusty69

[Naughty Cal]

7 hours ago, leeco said:

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Yes I know we are below 10.5v but you don't need to beep every 2 seconds for hours

Turn it off?

Stop discharging batteries so deeply?

Turn engine on?

Turn on battery charger?

Buy new batteries?

 

[MtB]

7 hours ago, leeco said:

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Yes I know we are below 10.5v but you don't need to beep every 2 seconds for hours

 

Actually yes it does. 

It's generally known as 'defensive engineering'.

If it didn't beep whenever the battery voltage fell to the point were serious battery damage begins, Sterling would be sued regularly by goons claiming they had no idea the Sterling could ruin their batteries if used indiscriminately, and that Sterling were negligent in not having a warning beep, so Stirling should pay for all the new battery sets. 

As it is, you're going to have to pay for your own.

 

[WotEver]

It reminds me of my mum who removed the battery from her smoke alarm because the beeping got on her nerves. 

[MtB]

Just now, WotEver said:

It reminds me of my mum who removed the battery from her smoke alarm because the beeping got on her nerves. 

 

That's different though. The beeping was (presumably) false alarms caused by cooking by-products. An almost intractable problem with smoke alarms.

Or was her house actually on fire?

[WotEver]

Just now, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

That's different though. The beeping was (presumably) false alarms caused by cooking by-products. An almost intractable problem with smoke alarms.

Or was her house actually on fire?

Neither, it was a low battery voltage beep. 

[MtB]

5 minutes ago, WotEver said:

Neither, it was a low battery voltage beep. 

 

You mean she doesn't charge her Trojans every day??!!!!

[WotEver]

5 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

You mean she doesn't charge her Trojans every day??!!!!

The PP3 wasn't rechargeable

[alan_fincher]

And of course the bleeper itself is consuming power, further exacerbating the very flat battery problem!

[MtB]

4 minutes ago, WotEver said:

The PP3 wasn't rechargeable

 

Ah, good point. So you think the OP is using PP3 batteries?

My advice is to fit some Trojans. 

[WotEver]

Just now, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

Ah, good point. So you think the OP is using PP3 batteries?

My advice is to fit some Trojans. 

I guess it's pretty irrelevant what he has fitted if he's not going to charge them...

[MtB]

1 minute ago, WotEver said:

I guess it's pretty irrelevant what he has fitted if he's not going to charge them...

 

OTOH, given he appears not to be charging his batteries after every discharge, I think he is going to need new batteries pretty soon anyway. 

[alan_fincher]

10 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

OTOH, given he appears not to be charging his batteries after every discharge, I think he is going to need new batteries pretty soon anyway. 

I think if you regularly find yourself down in the 10 to 11 volt range that is a pretty fair conclusion.  A bit like Nightwatch's thread on the topic, really.  By that stage I doubt removing one or two duff batteries from the bank is going to keep you going much longer.