[C320-list] AC inverters

[crashley at gte.net]

I have thought. Don't do it. Actually it should work and you can open the 
main and outlet circuit breakers and I think it will isolate you from the 
galvanic isolator, although I'm not sure that would be a problem anyway. 
Also, you won't have a current limiting device unless there's one in the 
inverter output itself, and the GFCI outlets might not like it either. I 
plan to wire in an inverter/charger soon, but I'm breaking in to the wiring 
upstream of the outlet circuit breaker and connecting only the outlets to 
the inverter output. When shore power is available there's a transfer relay 
in the inverter that connects shore power to it's output so the outlets will 
work normally then too.

CRA
Rosebud #882


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Seastream" <robert.seastream at comcast.net>
To: <C320-List at Catalina320.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 6:50 PM
Subject: [C320-list] AC inverters


> Any thoughts on 'backfeeding' (plug the output of an inverter into an 
> available AC outlet, thus supplying all AC outlets with 110 VAC) the 
> cabin AC outlets with an inverter?  I know there's a 'galvanic  isolator' 
> just after but inline with the aft shore power outlet.  I  wonder how it 
> would react to this scheme.
>
> Bob Seastream
> 'Intuition' # 906
>