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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mobeewan wrote:
My Progressive Dynamics converter only uses at max 600 amps, so it doesn't need its own breaker. It's on the GFCI circuit along with the Norcold fridge which also draws about 600 watts max.
Your converter has a power factor of about 0.7 so it draws more VA from the power supply than its rated watts. Even so 600w is low for a converter unless it is small like a 35a DC size.
It won't show so much on shore power, but it will if you have a smaller portable generator like a Honda "1000w" model.
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The PD9280 is supposed to be on a 20a circuit with size 12 wire. It is not PF- corrected. If it were, then it could run on a 15a circuit.
