jcpainter wrote:
majorsmackdown wrote:
Cheap or weird ? It wasn't cheap, and weird maybe - it's what camping world is selling. I've found in the past that they sell a lot of quality stuff and I assume someone at camping world put the equipment they sell through some sort of quality testing before they expose the public to it...
My point exactly, why would someone ask for specific information or help with specific hardware when there is so much general knowledge out there ? It's because sometimes the specifics aren't the same as the general.
Usually the generators aren't powering the inverters are they ? It's the batteries that power the inverters - and the generator would have to power the battery charger portion and work with the built in transfer switch. Many people on this thread said it should be fine and the installation is the problem - well... I'm here to say that with first hand knowledge of the specific components that a person can expect to have trouble. I'll admit, I'm new to the forum and didn't dive into the troubleshooting side of things until after I discovered there was a problem. So now I'd look into it - what inverter chargers with true sinewave do work well with the onan generators ?
Having goofed with it a little bit, I've tried to clarify what the trouble is. I've emailed nature power and will update if I get a reply.
I am the OP and I thought I'd give an update. Camping World has concurred that the Nature Power inverters are not compatible with the Onan Generators. Nature Power agrees. I don't understand the "why's" or the "how comes" but they just don't play well together.
We have an appointment Monday morning for Camping World to replace the Nature Power with a Magnum MS 2012 inverter (their recommendation). We were told that Camping World will no longer sell the Nature Power inverters.
I pray this story has a happy ending!
You will be getting the BEST inverter/charger on the market and a very wise move by CW to dump one that won't play with 90% of the generators installed in RVs.
