Vintage RV upgrades
Hey everyone! I’m back with more questions. Recently purchased a 1977 dodge Sportsman RV. 43k original miles, in excellent shape for its age. All appliances in working condition. Picked it up for $750...
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Ashton1012 wrote:DrewE wrote:
For the house part, if the converter is original or even comparatively old, replacing it with a modern multi-stage converter would be well worth doing, and probably doing fairly soon. There haven't been as many improvements in most of the other appliances and stuff over the years.
Lucky for me, I bought a modified sine wave years ago thinking I’d use it camping in the car, and never did lol. So it’s brand new, ready to go in. Not as nice as a pure sine wave inverter but honestly I won’t be running much with it. Currently just have lights to power, fridge when it’s not on propane, and will eventually get some more small stuff to put in but no major electronics like a TV or computer. The modified sine wave should do great, we will see.
An inverter (like your modified sine wave unit) and a converter (which is built into the RV) are two different things: they work in opposite directions. The converter takes 120V power when you're plugged into shore power or using a generator and converts it to 12V power to recharge the house battery and to power the 12V systems like like the lights, water pump, furnace, fridge controls (if applicable), etc. An inverter, on the other hand, takes 12V power and turns it into 120V power for whatever 120V gizmos you wish to power.
