TN370
Active Member
Hey folks, I bought myself an combination 2500w inverter / charger. It's the Promariner TruePower Combi. Planning to start install tomorrow but will likely only get it located, mounted, and assess the current wiring on the boat. The plan is to have this unit provide a third source of AC power to the entire panel (along with the shore power and generator options). Wiring the unit to a bank of batteries appears to be straightforward for the DC power into the unit when working as an inverter and DC power back out when charging (unit is auto sensing and switching in this regard). Secondly feeding AC power to the unit appears to be obvious. I plan to just use the circuit and breaker on the AC panel that's currently feeding the old battery charger that I'm removing. After that it gets a little confusing to me.
My first question, for anyone that's willing to give advise, is where I should feed the power provided from the inverter to power the panel? In other words, where do I tie it in? My first thought is to tie into the AC panel wherever the generator ties in. Without having the panel off I assume that's at the two slide breakers. The thought is that this would all me to use the inverter on short term occasions when I don't want to run the generator. But when the generator runs the inverter should auto detect alternate AC power and reverse to charging. The weird thing is that I know I have to be creating a loop on the AC side of the inverter, but I can think of any scenario where it wouldn't be. So why then does the inverter have separate "input" and "output"? Thoughts?
My first question, for anyone that's willing to give advise, is where I should feed the power provided from the inverter to power the panel? In other words, where do I tie it in? My first thought is to tie into the AC panel wherever the generator ties in. Without having the panel off I assume that's at the two slide breakers. The thought is that this would all me to use the inverter on short term occasions when I don't want to run the generator. But when the generator runs the inverter should auto detect alternate AC power and reverse to charging. The weird thing is that I know I have to be creating a loop on the AC side of the inverter, but I can think of any scenario where it wouldn't be. So why then does the inverter have separate "input" and "output"? Thoughts?