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[Thehobe1]

Having the power go off for less than 10 seconds could be a problem for the inverter circuit and it may have a blown fuse. When the power goes off and the refrigerator was running, the compressor has built up a lot of pressure in the refrigerant line. When power is re-applied, a very high stall or starting current is drawn by the high load on the compressor. This could easily blow out the inverters fuse or, at worst, take out the inverter altogether.

High end refrigerators have protection by delaying the restart after power is re-applied, yours may not have this feature.

There will still be AC power at the fuse/circuit breaker because the inverter has to receive the input AC and transfer it to the AC loads so the inverter has to be powered by it's 12V input to do the transfer. This will work as long as the inverter's fuse/breaker is OK. Otherwise, you need to bypass the inverter to re-energize the AC power from the shore power line.