ewarnerusa wrote:
TomC71 wrote:
...The fridge/microwave plug powers something in the converter unit that makes a humming noise. I'm guessing its the battery charger but am not really sure.
There are labels on the front of the converter, but they aren't correct at least on the AC side, not sure about the DC side although I know there's at least one extra fuse that has no label at all.
So I should be able to disconnect the wires from 3, 4 and 5 and run them right to my inverter. Then even if by some strange weirdness we were teleported somewhere else with shore power, or I wanted to run the generator and plug the trailer into it, it would only power up the battery charger, assuming it's the 'hum' I hear.
I think it would be weird that it has the converter tied to the same AC breaker as the microwave and fridge, the micro is a high draw item and usually on its own breaker. Fridge is probably 300 watt and your converter could be 500+ watts depending on make/model and how discharged your batteries are when you first plug in. That's a bunch of high draw items on one breaker. But if you hear the hum when only that breaker is on and the hum shuts off when you flip that breaker off, then your logic makes sense.
You mention you don't want to do any rewiring, but then talk about rewiring 3, 4, and 5 to the inverter. A few of us have recommended what seems simpler which is installing your inverter in a location convenient enough to plug your shore power cable right into it. Then shut off your breaker 6 that has the converter (and fridge & micro if your circuit assignments are correct, which would be a good practice anyway when running off inverter). Doing this will make all outlets energized.
Moving the ends of three wires a few inches isn't 'rewiring', it's simply changing hookups lol. By not rewiring I mean running new wires for things.
What would be the point of running AC through all the circuits besides the plugs we're going to use? It's all 37 year old stuff that I don't want to have to screw with where we don't have to.
