westend wrote:
Any time you are drawing current from the battery you are shortening it's life, however small that aging is. If the converter is supplying the power for the inverter, no foul.
Do you leave food in the fridge when parked at home?
And, yes, 5amp standby current sounds like a lot. My 1000W Xantrex is rated at 500ma (.5 amp) for standby current.
It is not stand-by current, it with the fridge on. That would be while away but on shore power. At home the fridge would be off.
I would have to shift the shore power from inverter to "pedestal" and back, OR I could leave the inverter always on with the rig whole house except to converter, which would be the thing on shore power.
It is a matter of how accessible I need to make everything while I am redoing the set-up in the TC.
My Xantrex-built (rebranded) 3000w MSW inverter in the 5er also draws 0.5 amps when on with no load as seen on the Trimetric. Don't know how much the 2000w Vector MSW in the DC draws no load.
