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ghrost
Explorer
Mar 29, 2018

Question: plugging shore power cord directly into Inverter.

Hello, This is my first post and of course it'll be going into the tech issues section. I recently acquired an old 1981 Chevy Brougham , I believe it's 21 footer. I plan on hooking up solar to the ...
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MrWizard
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Mar 29, 2018
you need batteries for the SOLAR aka to power your inverter

connect those batteries to your house circuits, you should have house battery power, your fridge, water pump , furnace, lights... need 12v power

solar to inverter to converter to get 12v for those items, is wasteful and silly

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