SoundGuy wrote:
What you're wanting to do is to power the trailer "whole house" with your inverter. Sure, works fine within the limits of your inverter but doing so creates a closed loop with the inverter supplying power to the converter which in turn will try to charge the battery which is supplying power to the inverter. You can prevent this simply by turning the converter off. Also make sure your fridge is forced to gas mode and your water heater, if it has an electric heating option, is switched to run in the gas mode only. I did it this way originally but found it to be a PITA so I later wired the inverter outputs to dedicated receptacles in the trailer and no longer have to remember to turn anything off. :B
I did this on my last rig and SoundGuy is right- it gets annoying quick.
You absolutely DO need to turn off the converter otherwise you'll overload the inverter and it'll shut down. Fortunately, with an inverter so small, it'll overload before going into a self-charging death spiral.
For me, with a 1000W inverter, I'd turn off all of the breakers except for the 2 that controlled almost all of the outlets in the camper.
