Oddly wired Distribution Panel
On my last trip, the converter failed and I had to use a portable battery charger to keep up my coach battery. Back at home, I removed the distribution panel to get to the bad converter. It was a WF...
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CA Traveler wrote:
Move one of the A/C breakers and it's companion CB to the left of the main breaker and you'll have better balance, maybe another heavy load like HW. The WFCO only uses a few amps so no reason for it to be on a separate CB but I'd put the new charger on it's own CB.
I have had the converter on my Rig (Progressive Dynamics Intella-Power 9180 + wizard) take out a 15 amp breaker once. Normal draw is about 10 amps is batteries are dead, that's more than "A Few".
Normal draw if the batteries are well fed.... Well .. low single digits. (A few).
Moral.. State of charge affects power draw of converter, 60 amps at 12 volts is 5 amps at 120 volts PLUS conversion loss and divided by power factor (powerfactor is never greater than 1.0 (Perfect) so if you divide 5 by a power factor of say 0.9 you get what, 5.55555555 (Goes on forever)
