wiring in inverter
5er came prewired for generator. I wired a 50a receptacle to the front to hook up a generator, and it works great. Since my batteries are up front too, what about installing an inverter (2200w) ne...
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theoldwizard1 wrote:enblethen wrote:
OP:
How are you going shed power to prevent overloading the inverter?
This is why any decent inverter has a breaker on it's output !
The breakers on inverters are cheap and not very robust, they are a very crude thermal breaker, they are not as robust as your breaker panel breakers (and even your breaker panel breakers can only survive so many trip or even switching events before they fail). Each time you overload and trip the cheap breakers they get a bit more trigger happy.
It is best to prevent overload events by removing devices from the chain that can send your inverter into overload..
For instance, I use a 1250W inverter to power my home fridge conversion, only the fridge is on that inverter, period. No A/C, no water heater element..
I realize that everyone is lazy and just wants to power the entire rigs electrical system, but to do that one must flip a bunch of breakers off in the main panel for items like the converter or high draw items and remember to do so each and every time..
As I pointed out, they do make low cost ATS units for single circuits which allows one to have a dedicated inverter circuit which can transfer between shore and inverter power for $70. Pretty inexpensive and fully automatic with no manual flipping breakers on and off.
Personally, babysitting the electrical system for each and everytime I setup would to me make the entire camping thing a real hassle.. But you are very welcome to play an electrician while camping.. Myself, I would rather be outdoors having fun..
