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[brianh442]

The purpose of the inverter is to invert DC power to AC power.
In this case the Inverter takes 12V DC power from your batteries and inverts it to 120v AC power. This allows you to run your residential fridge and if equipped an outside kitchen fridge while rolling down the road, or dry camping.

If you are parked with your inverter on, you can look at the Xantrex monitor panel and it will display what the volts on your 12V battery system is. There are three little indicator lights on the left hand side of the panel: Utility, Battery and Fault.

If you have the inverter on and plugged into shore power, the Utility light will illuminate. If you are plugged into shore power, inverter should be turned off, I don't think its really doing anything! (I guess you could leave it on as a fail-safe measure????)

If you are not plugged into shore power and are running the inverter to power the coach, then you will see the Battery light illuminated on the Xantrex panel. This indicates you are powering the Xantrex inverter through your 12V battery system and the volts displayed are an indication of your battery state.

The Fault light will illuminate if the system detects a fault somewhere!

If,,, while you are running the inverter and you start your Genny, the Genny will take over providing the AC power., it will also start charging your batteries. Also if you have your Magnum auto start system enabled, it will auto start Genny based on what parameters you set, (low volts/high temp in coach).

In the above scenario, if the Magnum auto start was set to run for two hours to recharge your batteries, after the two hrs, the Genny would shut down and the inverter would go back to providing AC power!
Hope this helps!