treeofliberty wrote:
pianotuna wrote:
I believe Tim wants to run an inverter so he can have 120 volt power, where there is no shore power with restricted hours for generator use.
Yes, this is exactly what I want to do, mainly to drive the coffee pot in the morning before generator hours and the TV and audio at night.
I dug a little deeper in the manuals and found our converter model, WFCO 8955. So it looks like can add a switch on the DC output side to break the loop when I have the inverter running, like a manual transfer switch.
No, you have to switch off its 120v input or you will have the converter drawing power you would rather save. If it is a plug in you can yank the plug, if not, you can use the circuit breaker the converter is on as its switch. Except-
If the receptacles are on that same breaker that you want to use while on inverter. If so you can swap the converter or receptacles to share with a different breaker, or you can insert your own switch in the converter's black wire before it reaches the CB, so you can leave that breaker on for the receptacles to work while turning off the converter.
Don't forget to put the fridge on gas, not auto, so it won't go to 120v when it sees that from the inverter. Also water heater on gas. No air conditioner.
Of course the inverter has to have enough wattage (continuous rating, lower than its named rating) to run whatever, and be on sufficient battery. Main hazard is making morning coffee off inverter when batts are at their lowest in the morning, so the loaded voltage gets down to 11v inverter alarm. That beeping will wake everybody in the park up! :) That's why you would like four batts instead of two so the loaded voltage doesn't get that low.
