Plugging shore power into inverter
I'm about to buy an inverter for my travel trailer. It has no 12 volt outlets, so I think ac is the easiest way to go. Can I plug the shore power plug (with an adapter) directly into the inverter an...
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pianotuna wrote:
#1 is the cheap route at this point in time
#2 draw will be 137 amps from the microwave
JRRNeiklot wrote:
I know how many amps the microwave will draw. What I'm curious about is if the inverter itself (and the inverter's fan when under load) will be a significant draw worth worrying about.
With a claimed 615 ah battery bank supplying power draw by the inverter itself, regardless of size, should hardly be a concern especially considering you seem determined to expend so much of that reserve so quickly by powering a microwave oven. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me but it's your rig so obviously you can run it anyway you want. :R
