MDKMDK wrote:
"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?
"It's not legal according to code."
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.
No need to get defensive, folks are only trying to help. The point being made is that your
intent on how you'd use a double wired setup is irrelevant as it's still illegal and is the reason transfer switches exist - to allow only one source at a time to feed the load. Your argument is no different than one wanting to use a suicide cord from a genset to a receptacle in order to power all the circuits in the rig ... electrically it would work but it's still illegal and ill advised. Same argument also as one wanting to feed a house breaker box with a genset without going through a transfer switch - illegal and
could kill a line worker if that genset power reaches the outside lines feeding the house. Code regulations exist for a reason - to prevent people from doing what you want to do, to save lives. Your
intention to have two different power sources feed the trailer's electrical input but with only one active at any given time from just one source is irrelevant - it doesn't meet code and is illegal. If you don't want to use a transfer switch then you still have two others choices - feed the trailer whole house as previously discussed OR wire in totally separate receptacles that are powered by just the inverter.
