I have an older RV without a transfer switch. I have a hard wired 30A cable in a compartment. It can be plugged in three ways:<\/p>\n
1) to a shore power outlet
\n2) to the generator outlet
\n3) to the inverter outlet<\/p>\n
My main power source is the inverter with the generator being my backup and shore power being a treat.<\/p>\n
It is going to quickly become a pain to have to go outside to unplug the shore power cable from the inverter outlet and plug it into the generator outlet. Moreover, my electrical panel default position is a bunch of breakers off, so I have to switch them on before running the gen set. It is not good to use breakers as on\/off switches with any sort of regularity.<\/p>\n
So it looks like it’s time to consolidate all of that and get a transfer switch. I am looking at my options and see that most offer only two sources of power rather than three, and most are automatic. I also see that some electrically-minded folks have designed their own systems. I’d love to go that route.<\/p>\n
What I am envisioning is something that would plug into both the genset 30A outlet and the inverter 15A outlet and into which I could plug the shore power cable. It would also give me an option of which circuits to have live.<\/p>\n
The device would be accessible from inside and have a manual switch that would let me pick either the generator or the inverter, but would not start either automatically. So I could put it to inverter, walk to the living room, turn on the inverter, and only my inverter-friendly circuits would come on. If I picked the genset, I’d walk to the kitchen, flip on the remote generator starter, and all my circuits would be live.<\/p>\n
Another thought is that surely a 30A splitter must exist? Something I could plug my shore power cable into and which I could then plug into two different outlets, only one of which would be live at a time?<\/p>\n
I’m obviously not an electrically-minded person. \ud83d\ude00 But I’m starting to think I need to find myself an RVing forum so I can find some electrically-minded people to bounce ideas off of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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