When on inverter am I using the batteries?
When I'm parked, plugged into shore power and I'm plugged into the inverter outlet in the refrigerator compartment, is the electricity coming from the shoreline or from my batteries? I guess I'm as...
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SDcampowneroperator wrote:
It is still advisable to switch off the inverter, power appliances directly from shore power.
Inverters are not 100% energy efficient, use more power than they produce, as well as just plain wear and tear on it and the converter. Inverters are expensive, in my experience, finicky.
With the Xantrex inverter/charger, makes no difference is inverter is on or off. When there is an alternate VAC source, it does NOT invert. It does two things (again with switch either on or off): passes through the 120 VAC and activates the battery charger portion of the inverter/charger.
That switch only makes a difference when there is no external source of VAC.
