As I specified earlier, I own the $250 cable. There is nothing going on here but wiring up the outputs together to a single plug. No other electronics in the box. In fact, the box was so clunky that it sits in a box in the garage and the $20ish home depot version I built is on the boat.
From: electricboats@
Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 11:04 PM
To: electricboats@
Subject: Re: [Electric Boats] Re: parallel generators.
Myles Twete wrote:
> Great points! But it's not quite the same---I don't think there's any feature here that's being activated at all.
>
> I believe the Honda EU2000i parallel interface cable is nothing more than 3 direct banana plug cable connections between the 2 gensets.
>
> And so the point is that you can make up a cable for probably $12 to do this---no magic, no features being enabled thru some serial handshake and no reason to spend $250.
>
> At least that's my take on it---now if only I could afford another one of these gensets...
>
If the inverter boards in the Hondas were not designed for paralleling,
simply hooking the two outputs together could lead to 'interesting' results.
Hence I see this as a 'latent' feature you 'activate' with the over
priced paralleling box.
And as far as I can tell from the circuits in the manual, the
paralleling box is what you suggest - 3 wires with banana plugs and
nothing else, so the inverter electronics must be able to recognise the
power source from the other inverter and sync up to it.
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