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Wind was about gust to 22kts. We were making about 7.4 SOG across current.

If it shuts off, you should be able to turn it back on???

@@bmw803 I found a solution online which says you can use a rubberband to keep the button on the back of the shift stick pushed in, then it will ignore the 2-hour limit. Haven't tried yet, but will try when I have a chance.

@@aozhou4535 The rubberband trick applies to gen 1 Chevy Volts only (2011-2015). For gen 2, you can put the car in neutral and engage the parking brake to get the same effect.

I see! Thank you very much for the information, c234!

is there a danger in pulling more than 1500 watts of power?

@@mobilestreaming you might damage the battery or the inverter, not sure

Technically no..it pulls the from the 12v system. The drive battery, the high voltage system, then supplies the 12v system through a converter. When. The battery is depleted, depending on which drive mode you have selected...the gas engine will kick on to replenish the high voltage drive battery...and so, and so on. However, the Volt has to be ON for all of this to work, or basically you will drain down the 12volt battery as in any other car. The converter only recharges the 12v battery when the volt is powered on. Don't do any of this inside an enclosed space! When the engine kicks on it will put off carbon monoxide!!

In this case, both hold and mountain mode would keep the battery at apx the same level. The difference is that mountain mode will run extra to charge your main battery to 50% if it is less than 50% whereas hold will only keep the main battery at its same level-whatever that level may be.

Odd. My 2017 only charges up 2 bars in mountain mode. Too bad there's not an option to select the level of charge on your own. Like if you wanted a fully depleted battery recharged for camping through the night and had plenty of gas on hand.

That’s my question too. I know a Nissan Leaf only allows 1 KWh recharge to 12v battery. I have a 2015 volt and I want to look into it and see if this will work even at just 1kw of power.

Can the volt recharge the 12v battery fast enough to keep up with a 3kw inverter ?

This looks like a second gen volt. I know the first gen volt does not connect the big battery to the small battery

I have a 2013 Volt and I have done this for a power outage as well. The drive battery on the Volt does charge the 12v battery through the High voltage to Low voltage converter. This unit is located right behind the rear seats. The converter can output a large amount of current to keep up with the add on inverter, however I wouldn't push it...maybe 1000 watt ac output max. It's not designed for those loads. Its designed to keep up with heated seats, wipers, etc. These converters are on both gen1 and gen2, and work as an alternator would on a conventional ICE car.

Hi and thanks for the question. I believe in real world conditions it does. When the fridge compressor turns on there is a spike load while running everything else in the house, lights, internet, etc., I’m sure that’s over 1500W. So far it handles it without dimming or interruption. Obviously our electric range doesn’t work. Nor do hair dryers. Btw, haven’t had an outage this year so far in 2021 so fingers crossed. Yes this is a second generation volt. They’re not making them any longer.

So they say but so far no issues including computers. I’ve used a small portable inverter non sine wave on boats to power my PC and no issues.

mountain mode

Sorry for that. The hookup is explained and super easy. Pos to pos and neg to neg. using the normal power mode.

Jack and Dan be sure to buy a PURE SINE WAVE INVERTER. Anything else might damage sensitive electric devices like laptops, and televisions

Sweet!

@@DanStratocaster1 its not pure sine wave. But no damage done to any devices

@@kenpasseri Great video and project. I'm preparing to do the same. Cheaper option than buying a stand alone generator, quieter, and less maintenance and i can take it camping. The engine comes on when the hood is popped for safety reasons the dealer told me so that anyone working under it knows the car is currently on and there's live power under there and if it didn't turn the engine on with the car on when the hood is popped it could then potentially turn on at anytime while the hood is open so if you stuck your arms in there to work on something and suddenly the engine came on you might have a bad time. Did you install an inline fuse/circuit breaker between the battery and inverter? if so what size amps? Popping the hood to charge the battery up beyond 20% (that mountain mode will do) is a great hack to recharge the battery above 20% when you want to. I wish you could configure the top end battery reserve for mountain mode. I'd set mine to 100% if i could to have the option to run the engine until the battery is full.