whiteysax wrote:
I did some looking around and found my converter. It is mounted right behind the fuse box. The inverter is on the opposite side connected to a chain of batteries. Am I correct to assume what I experienced during the power outage was the converter powering the 12v utilities? In that case, why wouldn't my inverter power anything? It's pretty tough to follow the wires from the inverter as they eventually run inside the undercarriage.
My fridge is residential and has no LP hookup.
No, your converter only works with 120v input. You were on battery getting 12v with no 120v input from shore power or gen.
Your inverter will supply 120v with input from the 12v battery bank at the same time the batteries are supplying 12v to the rest of the rig.
Now we know why the fridge is on the inverter--it is 120v only. This will shorten the time you can run anything on inverter since now the fridge will eat into your television time allowed before the batteries need a recharge (which needs 120v--that's what the generator is for if no shore power)
The inverter lets you do things when generator is not allowed like in early morning, then once gen time is allowed later in the day, you can now recharge the batts that got low from using the inverter.
With an inverter, you don't have to be one of those awful campers who run their gens in the evening to watch TV. :(
