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Originally Posted by Chance

I'm not sure that's always the case. If designing from scratch, is it not possible to use an inverter/charger? If so, would you need a converter at all?

From other threads I've read it seems Thor adds a inverter or inverter/charger but leaves the standard converter installed.

An issue I can see from the battery manufacturers' point of view regarding having to honor the battery warranty, is that if Thor doesn't install enough battery capacity to support the inverter size it is very likely the average motorhome owner will kill the one or two house battery(ies) in short order.

If an RV has a fairly large inverter and only one or two small batteries, it's very easy to run them down below 50% when drawing a lot of power. And if the battery manufacturer has to replace the battery at their cost, I can see why they may push back.

On my coach at least the Inverter is an Inverter only. Thor installed the Xantrex Pro 1800 on my coach and that is not an inverter/charger. Xantrex does make the Freedom series which is an inverter/charger but that is not the model installed by Thor. This is the reason why the coach has an inverter (Xantrex) and a converter (WFCO).