Podmods, Maintenance, Tips and Tricks : List Your Mods:

Author: dbrimm
Subject: List Your Mods:
Posted: 28 Oct 2016 at 2:21pm

Originally posted by voisj Dbrimm, I'm working on installing an inverter, Main reason is a hair dryer and i have a 2000 lying around. Looks like you installed the transfer switch on the main 10 gauge (orange) input wire, and all the 110v lines still run out the back of the original main panel. My question is, If the transfer switch is pulled are you then powering the main panel from the inverter? Or are you just powering an elec outlet circuits? My thought is that if I power the whole elec main, the controller will be trying to charge the batteries from the inverter when ever its in use. So i would be going--      12v house battery to  12v inverter 110v  to  controler 110v to  12v house battery charging in a loop? Any thoughts would help! RGDS John

Hi John,

Yes I installed the transfer switch on the main input wire and so yes when the inverter (or genset) is running it's feeding the whole panel (including the built in charger).

If I want to avoid what you're describing I can just flip the breaker to the converter off on the panel and that seems to do the trick. I don't usually bother though since I only run the inverter occasionally and sparingly, for things like running the coffee pot for 10 minutes, or the wifes hair dyer, etc. The converter/charger only draws a few amps (it's very low powered) so in the short time I run the inverter for those big devices the charger can just draw it's extra 3-5A and not effectively affect anything.

Hope this helps and hope I haven't forgotten anything.

Thanks,
Dave