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pianotuna
Mar 30, 2014Nomad III
Hi,
Make your life simpler. Feed the Magnum from shore power.
Feed the OEM shore power cord from the Magnum. Disable the OEM converter, but leave it in place as a back up.
Or if you must have that sub panel feed it from the Magnum. I disagree about what you plan to run from the sub panel. Unless there is a massive battery bank, and/or a massive solar system, running the air conditioner from the inverter is a poor choice.
The Magnum 3012 does not do voltage support, so protecting the electric motor on the air conditioner from brown outs at a campground will not work, unless the OEM converter is plugged into shore power and the rest of the RV is run from the inverter, using double conversion.
Remember that a 50 amp service offers the RV 12000 watts where as the inverter can only accommodate 3000 continuous (25 amps).
Make your life simpler. Feed the Magnum from shore power.
Feed the OEM shore power cord from the Magnum. Disable the OEM converter, but leave it in place as a back up.
Or if you must have that sub panel feed it from the Magnum. I disagree about what you plan to run from the sub panel. Unless there is a massive battery bank, and/or a massive solar system, running the air conditioner from the inverter is a poor choice.
The Magnum 3012 does not do voltage support, so protecting the electric motor on the air conditioner from brown outs at a campground will not work, unless the OEM converter is plugged into shore power and the rest of the RV is run from the inverter, using double conversion.
Remember that a 50 amp service offers the RV 12000 watts where as the inverter can only accommodate 3000 continuous (25 amps).
Unyalli wrote:
I plan on feeding the inverter from a 50 amp breaker on L2 in the RV's power distribution center.
-Jeff
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