Inverter
Is best to run inverter when hooked to shorepower or turn it off
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Rollnhome wrote:
Great answers thanks. Is leaving the inverter on harder on battery life?
If "harder" is defined as an effect on battery longevity, yes. A battery has a finite number of charge-discharge cycles. Leaving the inverter on increases that number and subtracts from the total.
To further assess how much the effect is on your battery, one would need to know the draw of the inverter and how large your battery capacity is. IOW, a small inverter (< 300W) supplying power to a phone charger and PC will draw very few watts from a larger (>200 AH) battery bank. Along with the other 12V items being powered, it is not that much. If the inverter is larger and it is used to power large draw devices continually, it can greatly effect battery longevity.
