Shore power and inverter on together?
We just had a few quick in succession brief power outages where we are parked. It caused the tv and sat to go out and have to reset each time. It got me to wondering if putting on the inverter with sh...
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There are two types of inverters for this post.
In-line INverter/chargers adn
Stand alone
Stand alone for TV you can leave them on if you wish, The Converter will keep the batteries up.
In line inverter/chargers will switch to "Standby" when shore power is present so leave 'em on
You may have heard of a device called a UPS (it is not by the way) for Computers.. This is an INLINE type Inverter/converter with a battery inside.
(A true ups consists of 3 modules. A converter. a battery and an INVERTER in series. teh ones you buy at MicroWorld do break power (intrupt) for like 1/60th second or so as whey switch over they are IPS units not UPS but that's technical and you don't need to know that)
FOr many years my TV did not even blink when shore power vanished thanks to my Prosine switching in fast enough .
In-line INverter/chargers adn
Stand alone
Stand alone for TV you can leave them on if you wish, The Converter will keep the batteries up.
In line inverter/chargers will switch to "Standby" when shore power is present so leave 'em on
You may have heard of a device called a UPS (it is not by the way) for Computers.. This is an INLINE type Inverter/converter with a battery inside.
(A true ups consists of 3 modules. A converter. a battery and an INVERTER in series. teh ones you buy at MicroWorld do break power (intrupt) for like 1/60th second or so as whey switch over they are IPS units not UPS but that's technical and you don't need to know that)
FOr many years my TV did not even blink when shore power vanished thanks to my Prosine switching in fast enough .
