Inverter By-Pass

[dalej]

Jon, I was reading over your article and was wondering if this is up to code.

[Jon Wehrenberg]

Nope.....But then again there are quite a few things on our coaches that probably wouldn't meet one standard or another.

What I really need there is a huge grommet or clamp type connector. What I was doing was trying to hold 4 30 amp (3# 10 wires each) RV cables in the boxes while I pulled my guts out getting those through the bulkhead.

[phorner]

The strain relief on those cables is kid of........novel

[Orren Zook]

Nope.....But then again there are quite a few things on our coaches that probably wouldn't meet one standard or another.

What I really need there is a huge grommet or clamp type connector. What I was doing was trying to hold 4 30 amp (3# 10 wires each) RV cables in the boxes while I pulled my guts out getting those through the bulkhead.

Jon,

Trucklite (same one that is in your old stomping grounds) makes several different size connectors for their junction boxes that have compression nuts to do this job. When I get back home from HHI later in the week I'll post some pics of the box and compression fittings.

[Jon Wehrenberg]

The smallest hole the 4 cables would pass through was 1 5/8".

[Orren Zook]

The smallest hole the 4 cables would pass through was 1 5/8".

Oh, they don't have anything that big - the largest would accomodate a 7 wire cable as used on trucks

[Jon Wehrenberg]

I'll take a whipping for my jury rigging, but the nylon ties weren't meant to do anything more than hold the cables in place until I could pull them through the bulkhead. They are secure now and will not go anywhere. I would have liked to see some type of clamp, but room was a factor, and the size of the clamp may have affected where I could even have run the cables or mounted the box. If anyone else tackles a project like this they may have completely different installation issues.

[hhoppe]

Jon: I had lunch at a Seafood Resturant today in San Mateo and ordered Calamari. They brought my something that resembled that wad of wires in your picture. If your looking for a name for it I think Calamari would be just fine.

[jack14r]

Jon,I was remembering this thread a few weeks ago when I had a inverter failure.My coach has 2 Heart 2500 watt inverters and when I disconnected the shore cord I did not have the #1 inverter which runs the water pump and bay outlets.The Liberty electrical system does not load share and so I ran the generator when I needed water.When I got to Stuart and plugged in,of course it began working again.Troy thought it might have a contact problem so they cleaned the contact block.On my trip home it failed again,I am trying to get it to fail again.The great thing is the redundancy which made the inverter failure a non event.

[Jon Wehrenberg]

Jack,

Our coaches are different based on your description of your failure.

If my internal inverter by-pass fails (as yours apparently did) I cannot get shore or generator power to the circuits. Since you can power those circuits through the generator (and I presume shore power) you have an external by-pass so that external by-pass functions automatically, where I have to manually switch mine.

This stuff is great when it works.