Well, I had been grounding the inverter to the negative battery terminal, so I switched to grounding it to the trailer tongue of the camper. It didn't make a difference. So, I went to Harbor Freight and bought their 2000/4000 watt inverter, came ho...
John & Angela wrote:Howdy again. Just want to be sure I understand. With ALL the breakers off the inverter is still loading down as soon as you plug the shore cord in. Slightly off topic, how many batteries do you have.Yes - all the breakers are...
ewarnerusa wrote:Some inverters don't work. I'm not savvy enough to know why. The first inverter I bought was a Samlex MSW 800 watt and it acted the same as you describe. I later saw in the manual where it said to not use it to supply an ac panel. I ...
John & Angela wrote:Did you remember to change your fridge to propane. Thats about 4 amps. How about the water heater electric element. Theres another 11 amps. Those two together would drag down a battery to the alarm voltage quick and probably k...
I tried this and it didn't work - what am I doing wrong? I bought a 1600 watt Whistler inverter, connected it to my battery, turned off the breaker to my converter, plugged shoreline power cord (30A) into an adapter, then plugged it into the outlet ...