Can anyone answer my question on plugging your shore power line into a 30 amp fused inverter 2000 watt go power pure sine inverter. my inverter is about 2ft from my 4 6volts using #oo fused cable to my inverter, my inverter is about 3ft from my shore power in. It is a 50 amp service. can anyone answer my question thanks

The inverter may have a charger. Plugging shore power into an inverter/charger will try to make perpetual motion. Not possible!Not sure exactly what your question is?

Like the others, I'm not sure what your question is.I'm going to assume you are asking if you can plug your shore line power cord into the receptacle in your power bay to power up your coach from the generator. That receptacle should be a female plug for the cord to plug into. To power up your coach from the inverter, your power cord would not be plugged into anything. At least, that's the "normal" way things are set up. The inverter should be the "default" power source when shore power or generator power isn't available. If I didn't understand your question correctly, then the above information won't make any sense to you. If that's the case, I apologize.

Hi,If it is just an inverter, simply use an adapter and plug in the shore power cable. You will want to turn off the converter, and set the fridge to gas.

I am sorry how I asked my question. What I meant was can I plug my shore power directly into my 2000 watt inverter, The inverter does not have a charger. I have a 75 amp converter, but I would have to turn it off along with electric water heater and put frig on L.p. So my question is with all that said can I just plug shore power cord into my inverter

What are you trying to accomplish?The larger inverter should be feeding most or all of what 120 volt younormally would be using.

plugging your shore power cable into 2000 watt inverter

mena661
Explorer
Nov 25, 2013
BFL13 wrote:

It is amazing how many strange comments you get on this topic every time it comes up. Here's our system.
X2, I installed a 10-2 cable with a 20 amp plug on one end, for the inverter, and a 30 amp RV receptacle on the other end so I could eliminate one of the adapters PLUS if I wanted to use the inverter on the road, I could.

30A RV receptacle in the shore cord compartment

20A plug into inverter
enblethen
Nomad
Nov 25, 2013
jolooote:
I asked the same question. OP needs to see what the inverter feeds now. He may not have to do a thing!
BFL13
Explorer II
Nov 25, 2013
jolooote wrote:
My only question is ...Why?

It is amazing how many strange comments you get on this topic every time it comes up. Here's our system.

http://forums.trailerlife.com/Index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/26237237.cfm
jolooote
Explorer
Nov 25, 2013
My only question is ...Why?
MrWizard
Moderator
Nov 24, 2013
zorro1421 wrote:
I am sorry how I asked my question. What I meant was can I plug my shore power directly into my 2000 watt inverter, The inverter does not have a charger. I have a 75 amp converter, but I would have to turn it off along with electric water heater and put frig on L.p. So my question is with all that said can I just plug shore power cord into my inverter

yes .. just use the TWO adapters needed to get the correct plug

50 amp to 30 amp
30 amp to 15 amp

turn off appropriate items,then plug into the inverter
Rmcgrath53
Explorer
Nov 24, 2013
Like Pianotuna said. But I would add, make sure your converter and Air Con breaker is off.Turn gas on fridge. I have a 2000 watt sine wave that a bunch of alarms went off, when the wife decided she needed air and Turned the thermostat down and I forgot to flip the breakers. ps on edit turn hotwater tank on gas also....
mena661
Explorer
Nov 24, 2013
Yes, I also do this with my 300W inverter. Just turn off your converter and set your WH and fridge to gas.
ewarnerusa
Nomad
Nov 24, 2013
double post.
crcr
Explorer
Nov 24, 2013
Yes, that is eggzactly what I did. Works fine. I just don't run the AC or microwave when running off inverter (don't have near 2000 watts)
ewarnerusa
Nomad
Nov 24, 2013
zorro1421 wrote:
I want to run the micro and tv/dvd/sat

As has been described by Pianotuna, plugging in your shore power cable to your inverter to provide 120V AC to the entire RV usually works fine. That is what I do. One inverter I had would fault out when I tried it, though. My 1500W pure sine wave inverter would not run my 900W microwave. The MW pulls around 1300 VA and the inverter didn't handle it well and would shut down. A 2000W inverter could probably do it, though. I hope you have a lot of batteries if running the MW is a big deal. I'd say 4+ batteries needed to run the MW regularly or for minutes at a time.

A link to a thread of mine about trying to run my MW off of my inverter.