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camperdave
Explorer
Aug 22, 2019

shutting down generator with air conditioner running

I know the ideal scenario would be to shut off the A/C at the thermostat prior to turning off the generator, but in practice I'm sometimes pulling into a gas station with the generator and air running...
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Sam_Spade
Explorer
Aug 24, 2019
pianotuna wrote:

The cooling fans on my inverter are AC motors. Turn off the inverter, and you turn off the cooling. That is why it caught on fire.


Wait a sec. here...........
Isn't the inverter supposed to produce AC power ?
Why would the cooling fans NOT be powered by the inverter itself ?
Am I missing something here ??

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