Vanner Equalizer

[dale farley]

Is there any way to tell if an equalizer is working properly? It says the green light is on when there is a load on the equalizer. I have watched mine several times and only seen the light on one time. I have turned on the AC in the bus to see if that caused the light to come on, and it didn't. I set the inverters to "Charge", and the green light didn't come on, so I'm not sure when the light is supposed to come on. I thought one of the two scenarios would have presented a load to the equalizer.

[Gil_J]

Dale, turn on 12V loads. Once one of the two 24V half banks is pulled down by a small voltage (maybe .5V) the equalizer will begin to operate and the green light should come on. If this doesn't work I'm pretty sure the manual has troubleshooting procedures.

[dale farley]

Thanks Gil. I'll give it a try and see what happens.

[dale farley]

Gil, I turned on a few 12 volt things, and it didn't take long before the green light came on.

[Gil_J]

Dale, good news!

[dale farley]

Now I need to reinstall the one that was originally in the bus and see if it was really bad. I assumed that it wasn't working since I couldn't get the light to come on. Unfortunately, I did not turn on a 12v load to see if that made it work. At least, I did find the new one at a very good price.