Covered this 4 posts back. The inverter I suspect will be installed in the new rig doesn't have an auto-transfer switch. They do build one that has one, but it's not the one Winnebago installs at the factory.
"You cannot safely feed the panel with the inverter with the shore power cord active but disconnected."
Where did I say I was going to do that? I didn't say anywhere in any of my prior posts that I planned on using the inverter to power the receptacles while the shore power cord was active but disconnected, either in a 30A campsite post or the generator.
"It's not legal according to code. If you forget to disconnect when turning on the inverter, the two sources would fight against each other (the mains power from the shore would win, of course). If you forgot to disconnect it from a traditional, non-inverter generator, and turned on the inverter, the generator head would act as a motor and (try to) turn the engine of the generator. If you didn't have it plugged into anything but touched the prongs, you'd get a shock or worse; and if it happened to flop against something conductive, you'd have arcing and could well start a fire."
Um, yup. I believe I said way back that we would use the basic premise that I wasn't going to try to run more than one power source through the coach receptacles at one time. I suggested this was part of a project to use the inverter and batteries to power the coach receptacles standalone, as in an off grid situation. I wouldn't be sitting anywhere near a live 30A receptacle to use shore power. No campground posts out on the USFS roads, or the BLM lands dispersed camping ares that I know of. I also wouldn't have it plugged into the generator 30A outlet. Just wouldn't happen. Sorry, if that wasn't clear.
Thanks for your comments and input.
