Class C coach battery and Generator

You may or may not have an inverter. Plug a night light into an outlet, kill the generator, yank shore power, and see if it continues to stay on or not. If it does, you probably have a 1000 or so watt one, but it may be of a smaller or larger wattage.

03 Cobra sb wrote:
At night... does the inverter switch it automatically or is their a manual way of doing this

Why not just go out to the coach (with it uplugged) and see if the lights work?

When you are parked with no 110volt AC electric power hookup, your interior lights, fresh water pump, furnace blower and certain appliance controls get their power only from your house battery(s). When you have the generator running and providing 110volt power to your converter device, the converter provides 12 volt DC power to charge the house battery(s)as well as powering the lights, etc. Your generator seperately powers your air conditioner, microwave and fridge if set to AC power. If you have you RV connected to 110volt AC power, the converter works the same as with the generator running and it powers the lights, etc and charges the house battery(s). An "inverter" is not the same as a "converter". It converts 12 volt DC battery power to 110volt AC power for small low-wattage items like DVD players.RV'ers really need to understand the terminology and functions of the 12volt DC and 110volt AC systems as well as how to monitor and maintain house batteries properly.

Are you sure you have an inverter? I think you may only have a converter.

Ron