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I have camper with build in converter that also has 120V breakers on it. Recently I added electric element for water heater and hard wire it to AC breaker. The switch on the wall has small light tha...
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Nothing wrong with running AC as I measure it to draw 6 amp, while my inverter supports 11 amp on 1500W heater (!) just fine.
But it is the starting current that exceeds inverter capacity.
Just for the sake of it, I actually tried the idea. Started the AC on generator hook up shore power to the inverter and push generator kill switch.
It did not work. Generator hesitate while shutting down, so my feeling was that the voltage drop drastically before transfer switch kicked to inverter power and inverter had no power to pick up the compressor speed again, going into overload after couple of seconds.
I still think that getting fast-acting transfer switch would make AC running on $100 inverter, but than practically it might be easier to spend $300 on bigger/better inverter and not worry about starting with other source.
Happy camping.
But it is the starting current that exceeds inverter capacity.
Just for the sake of it, I actually tried the idea. Started the AC on generator hook up shore power to the inverter and push generator kill switch.
It did not work. Generator hesitate while shutting down, so my feeling was that the voltage drop drastically before transfer switch kicked to inverter power and inverter had no power to pick up the compressor speed again, going into overload after couple of seconds.
I still think that getting fast-acting transfer switch would make AC running on $100 inverter, but than practically it might be easier to spend $300 on bigger/better inverter and not worry about starting with other source.
Happy camping.
