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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Almot wrote:ewarnerusa wrote:
You installed 600+ Ah of battery and 500 watts of solar and that's all you run?!
If I read him correctly, he is already running a heck of loads:
"With the digital readout on the microwave, tv playing a movie off a thumb drive, and the fridge on, I'm pulling just under 600 watts".
600W is a lot. At this rate, his 600AH battery will drop to 50% in 6 hours. Can't be TV with thumb drive and standby MW with LED clock. Haven't read all 5 pages (I confess), but I don't understand where this 600W could come from. Is the fridge in 12V mode?
Yep I did what I was afraid of, forgot to flip the breaker on the converter, It's drawing 172 watts on its own. I'm going to wire a big red switch up right on the wall so I won't forget. SO, the correct numbers are, with tv playing video, and the fridge running via ac, 2.99a or 352 watts, according to my kilowatt meter.
