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jtcpartners
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Aug 06, 2013

Shore power and motorhome engine running

Is it ok to crank the engine when connected to shore power? I have a deisel motorhome. Often if I am only connected to 20 or 30 amp I crank the engine when operating the slides. Also when sitting idle at my house connected to house power I will occasonally crank the engine to let it run. Is this ok to do?
  • Thanks for letting me know! I also just realized that when I crank the generator the power switches from shore power to generator power and that I should turn off the a/c until it is switched over. Now I need to understand the invertor. Can I have the invertor on while driving down the road so that I can plug in something like a computer charger? I tried it once and the outlet I tried wasn't hot. Sorry if I'm going on and on but fixing to take our first long trip (1 month) and trying to get my head right about all this so nothing goes wrong.....