Connecting SCC to Inverter

[dmholmes]

In one of @Will Prowse's beginner videos he connects the SCC to the inverter instead of the battery. What are the pros/cons of both ways?

 

[Zil]

The only pros is the inverter will work so much better if connected to the battery bank, and the SCC is used to charge the battery.

 

[dmholmes]

The only pros is the inverter will work so much better if connected to the battery bank, and the SCC is used to charge the battery.

The inverter is connected to the battery in both methods. But the SCC can be connected to the battery as usual, or routed through the inverter DC input as in the video.

 

[gnubie]

It's probably just being done as a convenient point to interconnect things.

 

[Bob142]

In one of @Will Prowse's beginner videos he connects the SCC to the inverter instead of the battery. What are the pros/cons of both ways?

No practical/functional difference as long as all the wires are sized and fused correctly for the current they'll carry and the terminals can support more than one lug.

In that particular video I guess that Will wanted to build a very compact setup with short wire lengths (that required no crimping and wires you could buy at Walmart). So he used the inverter terminals as a convenient location to make connections rather than running two sets of long wires to the battery. The goal was to make it easy for a beginner to wire up and that topology is dirt simple.

 

[dmholmes]

It's probably just being done as a convenient point to interconnect things.

I think so too. Closer and more convenient in the setup he did for that video.