Thor Forums

[bevedfelker]

Also look at figure 6 on page 11 in the book. On the right hand side of the drawing is the dc distribution panel. You can see the bottom of the panel is connected to the Battery + terminal. The top is connected to the battery - terminal. Then all those wires in the right center where it says "To DC Branch Circuits" shows you how that distribution panel takes power coming from the battery and distributes it to all the circuits.

Then there are separate wires going from the charger to the batteries to charge them. But in essence those charging wires are connected to the same terminals that the power distribution panel is connected to -- so electrically they are also connected to the branch circuits.

So if you are connected to shore power but you leave the USE/STORE switch in STORE, power will not be provided to the charger and the batteries will not charge. BUT all the DC circuits will be getting power from the converter and that's why everything works in the RV because is being directly applied to the DC distribution panel but not to the charger to charge the batteries.