Battery (DC) to Shore Power Wiring
Hi. First time post. Nice to meet you all. My wife and I just bought a 1965 Shasta Compact travel trailer. The trailer is already wired for shore power (AC) and that system is working fine. When we...
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pianotuna wrote:
jnagy20,
Make sure to disconnect the inverter output from the AC panel when plugging into shore power. If you don't you may let the magic blue smoke out of the inverter.
I prefer to plug my shore power cord into my inverter as that makes it ID 10 T proof.
Thats why I had suggested running the current shore cord to the converter when he wanted to run from battery, it would act as a failsafe from being tied to both types of AC at the same time. All of his existing shore power outlets would go live when plugged into the inverter. He would just have to use a stand alone charger for the batteries, powered from an outside source.
Thx
