flashflood21
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I am currently building my 5th wheel system out. Its a 2004 river forest cardinal 50 amp 5th wheel and I am building out 48 volt system for it. Ran into 2 things that I am not totally sure of so far. The first thing is the converter charger. It looks like the converter charger is just plugged in to an outlet off of the AC side of the panel. Then the dc hot and neutral go to power the dc breaker panel and also split to charge the old 12 volt battery. Instead of installing a 48 - 12 dc to dc converter (which I have) to power the dc side, should I just leave the converter in place to power the dc panel? Or should I just take out the whole thing?
The other thing is there appears to be a transfer switch as shown in the picture. There was no on board generator but I think it was an option with this model. There are two inputs and one output in the picture. I know one input comes from shore power but I have no idea where the other one comes from or where it goes. I am guessing I should not worry about it but I am curious where it could possibly go to or if it really matters.
The other thing is there appears to be a transfer switch as shown in the picture. There was no on board generator but I think it was an option with this model. There are two inputs and one output in the picture. I know one input comes from shore power but I have no idea where the other one comes from or where it goes. I am guessing I should not worry about it but I am curious where it could possibly go to or if it really matters.