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[Jim474]

Are you refering to a charge controler for olar to charge your batteries?

A note in general. If you have an inverter and a 30 amp or 50 amp RV. Your invertwr is only one o N e leg of incoming power and often only powers a few 120 plugs. If you want to power more you will need to install 2 inverters ine on each leg of incoming power.

If you buy an i verter you will want to look for kne that has ferures like pass through power this will allow ug ou t ok charge your batteries when plugged in or you can use what may have come with your rig. How ever most of them will not fully charge lithium batteries to 100%. So if you go lithium you will want to spend more on your charge controler and your inverter. If you want every thing in the rig to be live off your inverters yo uh will need inverters.

Look at magnum ms pure sign wave some of the best on the market. My best guess to your question is that that is the type of inverter you are talking about. The reason uou want that is to fully and safely charge lythium batteries. You are looking at about 6k to get two inverters 3000 to 4000 whats. Note 4000 are custom built by order only so order long before your install date.

If you want to run your Ac of inverter you will need to add a soft start kit to protect your inverter from surge when unit starts. The magnums will handle the surge but for couple hundred to protect several thousand is a good idea. Hope this answers your question. We run 4 170 AH renogy batteries. Have 8 160 watts flex solar pannels 2 of which are set up as remote rest on o. The roof. 100 amp charge controler by renogy. And 2 2800 watt magnum inverters.
We have 510 AH usable off the Batteries. Which sounds like a lot but remember when you look at amp ratings on things that run on 120 volts and you invert from 12 volts you move the 0 from voltage to amperage. For instance the coveted residential refrig thats full load amps (flr) on refrigerator lable is 10 on batery power it becomes 100 Amps.