Inverter bypass revisited
I reread this thread after working on my inverters this week. I have three 3000watt Freedom Combi's 458's. I disconnected the 12 volts source to the inverters while working on the one unit. Bam!!!! no 120 volts circuited even through I have incoming shore power, and only one inverter was down by throwing the circuit breaker for it. My main power panel has breakers that are powered by the inverters and many more that are straight shore power or generator circuits. I least until today I thought they were non inverter powered. I will investigate more tomorrow but something that I don't know about must be powered by the inverter. Question: If you have no battery power to an inverter should you not still be able to transfer 120volts across the inverter?
GregM