jcpainter wrote:
Our generator is a Cummins/Onan 5400. The inverter/charger will be the 2000W Magnum MS2012. The rig has two new 6-Volt Trojan batteries, wired in series.
For those of you that actually have a working inverter/charger/generator system . . . . is it true that the neither the microwave nor the circuit with the GFI on it can be operated on the inverter?
When this was installed, the bathroom outlet and half the kitchen outlets were not put on the inverter. The tech said that because they were on a circuit controlled by a GFI, that they could not be put onto the inverter.
Is this true?
This is yet another example of technicians who don't know what they are talking about. Almost all the outlets in my MH are wired through the inverter and probably 75% of them are GFCI-protected. There is absolutely no relationship between them.
As for the microwave, with a full sine wave inverter you should have no trouble running it; we don't simply because the power draw is very large and it would draw down the batteries rapidly. We turn on the generator when we want to run the microwave.
