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tsweez
Explorer
Jun 05, 2013

Inverter: Where to start? Subpanel or No Subpanel?

Thanks in large part to the community here, this new RV'r just finished his first mod, e.g. creating a new battery location and replacement of the power converter/charger. My next project is installin...
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michelb
Explorer
Jun 10, 2013
One other pro argument for 'no sub-panel' is that it's kind of nice that ALL outlets in the motor home get power from the inverter.

We were camping without hookups in our 'new-to-us' Phaeton this weekend which has a sub-panel and I realized that while in our old mh (where I installed the inverter with no sub-panel) all the plugs were powered, in this one, only a select few are powered so you have to know which ones they are and plug things in accordingly.

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