Wiring inverter into 4 x 6v bank (balanced)
I have 4x Trojan T125's wired up in a balanced setup (following previous instructions to that effect on this forum). I will be getting a 2000w pure sine inverter that I want to wire in, is there any p...
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This was my planning for installing a 1500WATT PSW INVERTER in my OFF-ROAD TRAILER setup. You will not not need to get inside the balanced wiring of your batteries. I like using the heavy duty four position battery switch made by BLUE SEA and use one of it ring terminal connections points to feed the INVERTER. You should also have an BLUE SEA FUSE ASSY in this line as well... My values were picked for my install - your instruction manual should state what size fuse you will need for your. The high wattage INVERTER MUST BE as close to the battery bank as possible with short cables. Your 2000WATT INVERTER can draw in excess of 162AMPS DC CURRENT. That will make your battery cable twitch when engaged.
Your bigger problem is going to be separating your 120VAC wiring from the 120VAC Power Distribution panel to install a 6PDT rotary switch arrangement for those 120VAC circuit you want to run off of shore power or your 2000WATT Inverter circuit.
This is a typical drawing on one way to accomplish this from GOOGLE SEARCH...
This rotary switch can be installed next to the Power Distribution Panel like shown here for a couple of GOOGLE SEARCH installs....
This could get very involved...
I ended up going the easy route of just running a multi-tap extension cord coming from the INVERTER with one going to the Home Entertainment area and the other one going back to the bedroom side table location. The two multi-tap 120VAC heads would always be hot when the INVERTER was on. The two extension cords were out of sight along the wall and behind things to get from point A to point B.
I also get alot of RFI NOISE being generator by the high wattage INVERTER. Makes for bad Ham Radio operations in my case.
Just some of my thoughts for your install...
Roy Ken
Your bigger problem is going to be separating your 120VAC wiring from the 120VAC Power Distribution panel to install a 6PDT rotary switch arrangement for those 120VAC circuit you want to run off of shore power or your 2000WATT Inverter circuit.
This is a typical drawing on one way to accomplish this from GOOGLE SEARCH...
This rotary switch can be installed next to the Power Distribution Panel like shown here for a couple of GOOGLE SEARCH installs....
This could get very involved...
I ended up going the easy route of just running a multi-tap extension cord coming from the INVERTER with one going to the Home Entertainment area and the other one going back to the bedroom side table location. The two multi-tap 120VAC heads would always be hot when the INVERTER was on. The two extension cords were out of sight along the wall and behind things to get from point A to point B.
I also get alot of RFI NOISE being generator by the high wattage INVERTER. Makes for bad Ham Radio operations in my case.
Just some of my thoughts for your install...
Roy Ken
