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pcm1959
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Aug 09, 2014

Swiching for a dedicated Refrigerator inverter

I need some help form those experienced electricians out there with a wiring question. I am in the process of installing a residential refrigerator in my fifth wheel RV. I'm wrapping it up and rea...
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DiskDoctr
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Aug 09, 2014
Why not use a dbl sw/dbl throw 120v relay? The poles would be on the inverter side normally, and the 120v from any shore powered circuit would switch the poles to the shore power side.

Fridge would then run on inverter power and automatically switch to shore power when it was available, then back to inverter when shore power was removed.

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