I am installing an inverter in my 5th wheel. smallish one, 1200watts. basically only used to fire up the entertainment system on rainy days and coffee maker in the morning....I have it hooked up to the batteries via a 200A fuse, have a 12AWG SOW wire...
westend wrote:"I have it hooked up to the batteries via a 200A fuse, have a 12AWG SOW wire running from it to the converter." Does this mean you have the DC wiring from the batteries to the converter using 12 AWG? If so, your fuse won't protect the w...
Bobbo wrote:Why not wire the entertainment center ALWAYS to the inverter, even when on shore power? If boondocking, it will work. If on shore power, it will work and the converter will keep the battery charged. No transfer switches, no plugging/unplu...
pianotuna wrote:Hi,Which inverter did you find? Link?12 volt batteries will tolerate a 12 watt inverter. Six volts may not like it much due to lots of voltage drop.Here is the linkhttp://www.canadiantire.ca/AST/browse/4/Auto/SolarPortablePower/Invert...
I'm ok giving up on the coffee maker.I also found a better inverter (I think?) it's 1000w pure sineWe just bought this camper and for now I'm only running 2 batteries(1 - 27 dc and 1 - 31dc) the goal is to replace them with 4- 6v golf cart batteries ...
as blt2ski said, your weight will be closer to 9k once you are loaded and ready to go... the 6.0l 3.73 will pull it but will probably struggle if you do hilly/mountain pulling. 4.10 would be better in those conditions but is a pig on gas if you do a ...
