Shore power and inverter on together?
We just had a few quick in succession brief power outages where we are parked. It caused the tv and sat to go out and have to reset each time. It got me to wondering if putting on the inverter with sh...
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Maybe, maybe not, depending on how quick the transfer switch is and how sensitive the equipment is to blips.
One reasonable solution is to have a smallish inverter to run the TV and satellite receiver on and only use that. When you have shore power, the converter (or charger part of the inverter) will have no trouble keeping up with the DC load of the small inverter and then some. A 150W - 300W inverter should be plenty for these devices unless you have some pretty unusual TV (such as an old CRT projection unit or plasma screen).
One reasonable solution is to have a smallish inverter to run the TV and satellite receiver on and only use that. When you have shore power, the converter (or charger part of the inverter) will have no trouble keeping up with the DC load of the small inverter and then some. A 150W - 300W inverter should be plenty for these devices unless you have some pretty unusual TV (such as an old CRT projection unit or plasma screen).
