george hirvela
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So I retrofitted my old Lance camper, it was much more involved than those so-called simple wiring setups you see online. POVs, Charge Controller, Lithium batteries, inverter, converter, auto transfer switch, batt. monitor, and a lot of wires and fuses. I also added a soft starter on my AC unit and got a 2000w quiet propane gen. I did something I haven't seen done because my little Gen is marginally running the AC even though the soft starter kept it from tripping the Gen's breaker. I heard many places to run an auto transfer switch and I do, so it's typically either shore power or solar. I wanted to run both the Converter (charger) and the Solar to charge the battery. I put a plug/socket between the Transfer switch and the Converter (charger) so I could run both without the inverter/converter loop. I unplug the plug/socket to the Converter (charger) from the ATS and plug it into the Gen instead of using the shore power plug. I don't see a problem, maybe someone does? My 3000w inverter easily handles the AC 900w with the Solar and Generator keeping the batteries discharge to a minimum.