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DrewE
Jan 09, 2019Explorer II
BFL13 wrote:
Do you have a built in gen and a transfer switch with shore power or not?
If you do, and you have the shore cord into the inverter via adapter, and you now turn on the gen, you could get 240v and fry everything AFAIK
You don't get 240V where there should be no 240V, any more than if you started the generator with the shore power cord plugged into shore power. The transfer switch selects between the shore power input and the generator power input; only one is connected to the RV electric system at any time. Typically the generator would have priority, so starting the generator would automatically disconnect the inverter output and it would just be idling along doing nothing. (If they did get connected together, lots of bad things happen, which is why the transfer switch exists and is designed specifically to make it impossible to connect them together.)
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