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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msturtz wrote:
You are using shore power. The inverters have an internal transfer switch to automatically switch from inverter power to shore or generator power.
For others coming across this thread, it depends on the inverter and how it's wired in.
The specific model the OP has includes the automatic bypass switch not all inverters include this and it's possible, it wasn't wired in (unlikely but possible)
If you have an inverter that doesn't automatically bypass, it's actually fine to leave it on. Assuming it's a good quality true sine wave inverter and you have a charger that can keep up (air/con would need big units), it actually makes a nice power conditioner. The park power may have low voltage, brownouts and spikes. Within reason, the charger won't care and the batteries absorb the spikes and fill in the low spots. Then the inverter puts out near perfect 120v-60hz power to the outlets.
