Posted 2011-03-11 7:10 PM (#131543 - in reply to #131382) Subject: RE: Doing your own living quarter
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Location: Mahomet, IL
Your diagram brought up some other questions. Does the external AC source connnect directly to the converter or the load center. Or does the wiring just pass through the converter to the load center.
Posted 2011-03-12 8:16 AM (#131562 - in reply to #131382) Subject: RE: Doing your own living quarter
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Posts: 114 Location: Home of the WNFR at Christmas
The way we are wired, is the shore-power or generator enters the system at the inverter / charger, passes 120V AC to AC load center and charges batteries if they need it. DC always draws from the DC Load center and is not altered. When we disconnect from the AC source the inverter draws from the battery bank to provide 120 AC just as if we were plugged in.
This is of course where the solar kicks in and if necessary starts charging batteries to keep them at float voltage.
I did not show the fused links as they would have been really small and hard to see, but all power input links are fused or have a breaker to handle spikes and surges.
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