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Originally Posted by wayneroe
Tfryman, as it turns out my inverter is fine. The reason the TV in the main cabin had no power was it is not hooked up to the converter. The fridge and the bedroom TV work fine. When I turn an appliance on that is hooked up to the converter, then the output voltage reading shows up. Someday, hopefully, I'll figure it all out.
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First thing you have to figure out is an inverter and a converter are different things (although there are some combo units).
An inverter takes your 12 VDC in and creates 120 VAC out for your household loads that are on the inverter's circuits, usually a residential fridge, TVs and some other outlets.
A converter takes 120 VAC from either shore power or the generator and converts it to 12 VDC to charge the batteries, lights, and control power for propane/120 VAC fridges, water heaters, etc.
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