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Old 11-24-2022, 03:20 PM   #17
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Brand: Thor Motor Coach
Model: 2020 Magnitude SV34
State: Florida
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Judge:

The system you describe in your post above is very comprehensive, but has one potential flaw: If you forget to turn off the breakers and back feed your inverter, you will likely ruin it. Most inverters will self destroy if back fed.

I learned this the hard way a number of years ago, but maybe today’s inverters have better protection for this sort of thing.

David
I have a check-list but its pretty straightforward. But the Xantrex inverter won't get damaged as ACE mentioned. But it would create a loop and drain the batteries faster if I would forget the 15A input breaker.
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