Shore Power/Inverter Shuffle--One Solution
Others have done something similar, but this might help anyone doing RV renovations, and looking at a nightmare of transfer switches, converter switches, sub panels, and all that. :( This is what ...
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The main idea here is to have the converter separate from the inverter without having a "converter switch" and to make it easy to operate with only the converter on shore power while the rest is on inverter.
Yes PT and ISTR Mena do something like that, which is where I got to thinking....
In the TC, the kettle, toaster, etc can still run from inverter when the "short cord" (that does the camper receptacles) is plugged into an inverter that has enough battery bank to run them. Only reason the microwave is on its own is so it can go in the second inverter when we do it that way.
In the 5er, there is one big battery bank and one big inverter to go whole house. A converter switch keeps that from running off the inverter.
I didn't want to get distracted into the convoluted shmozzle of how our truck camper is set-up for different scenarios, which nobody else is likely to ever do. Factors include the small electric- only fridge and the single AGM which I don't bank with the Flooded batts.
Yes PT and ISTR Mena do something like that, which is where I got to thinking....
In the TC, the kettle, toaster, etc can still run from inverter when the "short cord" (that does the camper receptacles) is plugged into an inverter that has enough battery bank to run them. Only reason the microwave is on its own is so it can go in the second inverter when we do it that way.
In the 5er, there is one big battery bank and one big inverter to go whole house. A converter switch keeps that from running off the inverter.
I didn't want to get distracted into the convoluted shmozzle of how our truck camper is set-up for different scenarios, which nobody else is likely to ever do. Factors include the small electric- only fridge and the single AGM which I don't bank with the Flooded batts.
