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Lurker52
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Mar 16, 2019

Running the residential refrigerator on the inverter

Hello, I have a 2001 Monaco Knight DP. The previous owners installed a residential refrigerator. The rig also had a Xantrex 1500 watt modified sine inverter. The frig. was not connected to the inve...
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wolfe10
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Mar 16, 2019
The vast majority of inverter/chargers have a built in transfer switch (pass through).

So, when they receive 120 VAC IN from shore power or generator, the "pass through" that power to all circuits downstream of the inverter/charger. Receiving an external source of 120 VAC also initiates battery charging.

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