Sine Wave Inverter Anomaly
After following this recent discussion about how to best utilize a sine wave inverter for RV use I decided to go ahead and buy the 1000 watt model mentioned in this discussion since it was on sale for...
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The inverter's chassis ground must NOT be wired back to the inverter's neg input! It has to go to the frame on its own. They usually want about #8 AWG for that wire.
Vector inverter manual says the chassis ground is only for reducing RF interference for televisions etc, so no big deal
My Can Tire (I think I already posted this) 1000 PSW inverter chassis ground made a neg path from the shore cord's ground prong (plugged into the inverter) which by-passed my neg path (mostly frame) based battery disconnect switch, so I just did not use the chassis ground and all was well.
Small inverters like my "Source" (was Radio Shack) 400w, that I use now for "whole house" to make the receptacles live, with the shore cord into it, doesn't even have a chassis ground. It has no remote on/off either so I just leave it out front in the cargo bay, "on" all the time. The stand-by drain is tiny and being on solar you don't sweat the small stuff.
Vector inverter manual says the chassis ground is only for reducing RF interference for televisions etc, so no big deal
My Can Tire (I think I already posted this) 1000 PSW inverter chassis ground made a neg path from the shore cord's ground prong (plugged into the inverter) which by-passed my neg path (mostly frame) based battery disconnect switch, so I just did not use the chassis ground and all was well.
Small inverters like my "Source" (was Radio Shack) 400w, that I use now for "whole house" to make the receptacles live, with the shore cord into it, doesn't even have a chassis ground. It has no remote on/off either so I just leave it out front in the cargo bay, "on" all the time. The stand-by drain is tiny and being on solar you don't sweat the small stuff.
