professor95 wrote:
The advice from CPE given to contributor/member Fixx to try turning off his converter was good advice. ... If one's desire is to be able to run everything just like being plugged into a 50-50 split 100 amp shore power outlet or even a 30 amp outlet without rotating power loads then something like the Marquis Gold 7500 might be a better generator choice.
Agreed.. Small generators require creative use of the output and a lot of people forget that the converter running can be the difference between being able to run the AC or Microwave....or not. I was able to start and run my 13.5KBTU AC on my old Honeywell 2000 inverter generator without much issue..but I HAD to kill the converter first. Since it shared a circuit with a rather important plug elsewhere in the trailer I eventually just wired in a separate switch in the kitchen to turn it off.
I'm reading some of the replies here ("Turn off my converter? OMG never!") and wondering WHY people are scared of it. So long as you conserve when you turn it off and the battery is in good shape you can run for days without the converter on a single battery....to turn it off for even a full day (to run AC, for example) shouldn't freak people out - just turn it back on later when you've shed enough load from the generator in order to have enough capacity to turn it back on.
