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Originally Posted by LadyFireCaptain
This morning when we woke up we don’t have anything that runs off the inverter. We are hooked to shore power. Checked all the fuses and circuit breakers. Residential refrigerator, entertainment center and TVs all out. The inverter panel shows everything ok. Circuit breaker on inverter doesn’t do anything. Can’t push it in, just feels soft. Last night the power went out for about 3 seconds and came back on again. Everything was fine after that but this happened during the night.
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follow up questions:
1 What 120v items in your coach DO work?
2 When you say the 'Inverter panel shows everything o.k.', what exactly do you mean?
3 What do you mean by 'last night, power went out...'? How do you know the power went 'out'? What items lost power?
Your inverter, when you are plugged into Shore Power, simply passes 120v power thru it to all of the breakers/circuits on that side of your breaker box(one of your main breakers may be labeled 'Inverter'). Your other side will be items that your inverter does not provide power to, such as water heater, air conditioners, etc.
Now, if your inverter is ON, and you loose Shore Power, your Inverter would immediately continue providing power to those items under it's circuits, like the fridge, some or all outlets, microwave, some or all tvs, etc., depending on whether Thor wires all of these things on your Inverter circuits.
Our diesel platform, and Magnum ME2012 Inverter, has ALL 120v outlets on the Inverter, which basically is everything except the few items that are heavy draw items, as mentioned above.
Some gas engine RVs, though, don't have a larger inverter, sometimes only large enough for the factory to wire the Fridge itself to, but sometimes you'll also have a few outlets, as well. When you say 'tv', you're really referring to a 120v outlet, just like the fridge is plugged into, though many times the bedroom TV is actually a 12v variety, and will continue working even without the inverter since it is wired directly thru a fuse to the batteries.
confusing, sometimes, but fun!
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