Inverter install help

N2GN2 wrote:
Looks like I only need to power two 15 amp circuits (front/back), but I might be able to get by with just the front. The battery wires are 6 AWG. The batteries are on the tongue and the converter is on the other side of the bathroom. Span is less than 10 ft on our 24 ft toy hauler.

I'm ditching the marine batteries because they are shot. After a week of sitting they are down to 11.70v. I'll be moving from 168 AH to 420 AH with only two batteries. I'm eager to see what the 200w solar will do.

You're asking good questions. Here's what we do. I have permanently installed my inverters as close to the batteries as I could manage. When we setup for camping, I plug my shore power cord directly into the inverter's 120V AC outlet. I make sure the camper's AC circuit breaker for the converter is shut off, as well as the breakers for the air con, electric water heater element, and microwave. I had to made some wiring modifications and move the converter to its own breaker so I could isolate it and shut it off. Turning off the air con, WH, and microwave is just so they don't get accidentally turned on and overload the inverter. Doing it this way makes every 120V AC outlet in the camper live.

Just a word of warning, you need to make sure your batteries are disconnected during storage because there are parasitic draws on the batteries even when it is not in use. That's why your current batteries have died and your new ones will also die if you don't disconnect them while in storage. If you get solar installed, leave them connected in storage and solar will keep them bursting full and ready for the next trip. And 2x6V GC batteries in series do not double the Ah capacity. You mentioned 420 Ah after you make the swap. It will be the same Ah capacity as a single 6V battery, but you wire two together to in series to make an equivalent 12V battery with 210 Ah capacity.