Need Help Wiring Inverter.

KD4UPL wrote:
The simplest solution is to purchase an inverter/charger with a built in transfer switch. You would connect your shore power cord and generator to one transfer switch and the output of that switch to the inverter/charger AC input. When it received AC power from either source it would pass it thru and charge your batteries. When the AC power disappeared it would supply your loads from the batteries.
If you want 1,000 watts and pure sine wave I would suggest a Magnum MMS1012.
I tend to think that a 1,000 watt inverter is an odd size. It's not large enough to run many microwaves, coffee makers, hair dryers, etc. However, it's much larger than necessary to run a TV, DVD, computer, etc. For the small stuff a 600 watt is usually plenty. For larger appliances a 2,000 watt is necessary.

I thought that might be the case, we only have 2 batteries for now and I'm not sure where more could be added without building some kinda rack (It's a bumper pull toy hauler). Maybe I will get a 600 watt then, I just figured why not get a 1000 watt so it would work less hard. But in fact a 600 would probably work fine indeed. It would only save me about 50 bucks though.

MMS1012 - This inverter is Far out of my price range. It would be nice to have the switch built in, but not required, it might in my case make the install more difficult.