No power to outlets when in battery mode.
2017 Coachman Viking 16RBD. When plugged into electric everything works fine. When on battery, no power to the outlets, microwave, nor A/C. I've hit reset on all of the GFI protected outlets, checked...
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rlw999 wrote:Correct, it is rather confusing that the RV industry decided to call the battery charger/power supply a "converter". While it does "convert" 120V to 12V in some respects it should have been called a battery charger since that really was the prime reason for the converter to exist.
Then you'll get questions from people asking "My RV only has a battery charger, how can I run my 12V appliances when plugged in to shore power?". And really, I use my converter as a DC power supply much more than I need to use it as a battery charger.
I don't think there's anything you could call it that wouldn't raise questions from someone new to RV'ing, but once they learn, then calling it a "converter" is no worse than anything else and they quickly learn the difference between an inverter and a converter.
If you called it 12V POWER SUPPLY AND BATTERY CHARGER there would be zero questions. Spells out exactly what the function is.
Calling it a "converter" just makes a muddy mess since folks think it CONVERTS 12V to 120V..
Both converter and inverter "convert" and hence the confusion which could have been easily avoided.
