I recently got 600W of solar, two 12V 100ah gel batteries, 40amp charge controller, and 2500W inverter installed on my travel trailer. The guy who installed the system disabled charging via the converter so it wouldn’t create a loop when my inverter ...
Thanks for all the replies. We ended up getting a battery maintainer (trickle charger) to top up the batteries while we’re here at the Oregon campground and have shore power. This is the model we chose: NOCO Genius G3500 6V/12V 3.5 Amp Battery Charge...
time2roll wrote:Yes just get a 15 amp breaker at the local hardware and connect your converter.Use the breaker as a switch to power it up only as needed.Could rewire to make this seamless and automatic but the breaker as a switch is fine for now.Than...
MrWizard wrote:How is your inverter wired into your 120v circuit breaker panelDid he add a new 30amp outlet for your shore cord to plug into?Did he run new wire to the breaker box from the inverterOrDid he install a transfer switch between shore cord...
DrewE wrote:35A is the output of the converter; the current at the 120V input will be considerably less than that.The basic solution is indeed to reconnect the converter with a switch or breaker dedicated to controlling it. Exactly how that might wo...
