Use of inverter with residential frig

[davydee]

We've had Paul & Kay Cross (Indiana Interstate Enterprise) install our new Samsung 197 residential frig & Xantrex Prosine Pure Sine Wave 1800W inverter last week. When plugged into good shore power, what are those of you with a similar setup doing with the inverter? On? Off? Standby?

So far I'm just turning the inverter off when plugged into shore power & ensuring it's on before we unplug & travel. I have experimented and left the inverter in standby. When we unplugged there was a lot of what I call "on-off-on, etc" by the inverter that, to me, seemed to indicate the inverter was just providing intermittent power to the frig. I wasn't comfortable that was good for the health of the frig. So, real interested to hear about others' experience & recommendations with these things.

Thanks!
David

[EA37TS]

Originally Posted by davydee

We've had Paul & Kay Cross (Indiana Interstate Enterprise) install our new Samsung 197 residential frig & Xantrex Prosine Pure Sine Wave 1800W inverter last week. When plugged into good shore power, what are those of you with a similar setup doing with the inverter? On? Off? Standby?

So far I'm just turning the inverter off when plugged into shore power & ensuring it's on before we unplug & travel. I have experimented and left the inverter in standby. When we unplugged there was a lot of what I call "on-off-on, etc" by the inverter that, to me, seemed to indicate the inverter was just providing intermittent power to the frig. I wasn't comfortable that was good for the health of the frig. So, real interested to hear about others' experience & recommendations with these things.

Thanks!
David

David,

I have a Whirlpool residential with an 1800 Watt inverter. When connected to shore power I turn the inverter off.

[ontheroad]

Does the Zantrex inverter have a battery maintaining mode. I have the 2800 inverter from the factory and I leave it on and have unplugged my converter and let the Maginum 2800 take care of the batteries.

[davydee]

I thought it did and did post that. Rereading the owner's manual, I didn't find that it had the capability to recharge the batteries & deleted my previous post. David

[R12]

I leave the inverter on. It goes into a transfer mode when plugged into AC and keeps me from forgetting to turn it on when traveling.

[retispcsi]

I have the factory 2800 watt inverter and just leave it on. It takes care of business.

[ontheroad]

When we got our Mobile Suite with the Magnum 2800 inverter the factory had installed the converter on a circuit which was controlled by the inverter, the first time we used the inverter the batteries ran down very fast. I discovered the inverter was trying to power the converter which was trying to charge the batteries. A vicious circle. The factory said unplug the converter and let the inverter take care of the batteries when plugged in to shore power. I did and everything is works fine now.

[Chance]

Originally Posted by ontheroad

When we got our Mobile Suite with the Magnum 2800 inverter the factory had installed the converter on a circuit which was controlled by the inverter, the first time we used the inverter the batteries ran down very fast. I discovered the inverter was trying to power the converter which was trying to charge the batteries. A vicious circle. The factory said unplug the converter and let the inverter take care of the batteries when plugged in to shore power. I did and everything is works fine now.

Are you saying the Magnum 2800 is an inverter/charger with built-in automatic transfer switch, and that the converter is no longer needed to charge batteries?

[Camr]

I unplugged the converter months ago and have had no issues. The inverter is handling the charging of the batteries.

[ontheroad]

Originally Posted by Chance

Are you saying the Magnum 2800 is an inverter/charger with built-in automatic transfer switch, and that the converter is no longer needed to charge batteries?

That is correct. Does a better job of maintaining the batteries than the converter