how to turn off converter easily
I am planning on installing an inverter this spring. I have read many of the threads here and am planning on just plugging in the shore power to the inverter's AC output. In addition, I also need ...
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If your converter plugs into a receptacle you can use a power bar extension cord out to where you can get at the switch on the power bar.
If the converter is hard wired like a Parallax 7355, and it does not have its own 120v breaker (many share the breaker with the very receptacles breaker you want to run things from) then you have to insert a switch.
That switch goes in the black wire (not the white wire) up from the 7355 before the black wire gets to the bottom of the breaker where the other black wire is. Now you can leave the breaker on to run the receptacles but the converter can be turned off.
I used an ordinary stick house light switch mounted near the converter with extension wires to where I snipped the converter's black wire and the wires are all hidden behind the cabinet front.
If you forget to turn off the converter when on inverter nothing bad happens right away if the inverter is a larger one. ( a smaller one might trip on its low voltage alarm, which tells you about the converter) With mine, the converter fan comes on as the reminder, and also the unusually high amps showing on the Trimetric.
If the converter is hard wired like a Parallax 7355, and it does not have its own 120v breaker (many share the breaker with the very receptacles breaker you want to run things from) then you have to insert a switch.
That switch goes in the black wire (not the white wire) up from the 7355 before the black wire gets to the bottom of the breaker where the other black wire is. Now you can leave the breaker on to run the receptacles but the converter can be turned off.
I used an ordinary stick house light switch mounted near the converter with extension wires to where I snipped the converter's black wire and the wires are all hidden behind the cabinet front.
If you forget to turn off the converter when on inverter nothing bad happens right away if the inverter is a larger one. ( a smaller one might trip on its low voltage alarm, which tells you about the converter) With mine, the converter fan comes on as the reminder, and also the unusually high amps showing on the Trimetric.
