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<blockquote data-quote="condor22" data-source="post: 464229" data-attributes="member: 1932"><p>In my first van I had my inverter hard wired to the van and it was wired into the mains circuit breaker. However there was also a DPDT switch in the system, so I had to select mains or Inverter, never both at the same time. To make sure, I would manually trip the circuit breaker before switching between mains and inverter.</p><p></p><p>That is the only safe way to wire them, if wired permanently to vans GPOs. The inverter was not big enough to run the M/wave or Aircon, but was in effect wired to all of the 240VAC GPOs, so the only thing to remember was not use either of them. Had I, the inverter would overload and trip, blowing the fuse, so again no problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="condor22, post: 464229, member: 1932"] In my first van I had my inverter hard wired to the van and it was wired into the mains circuit breaker. However there was also a DPDT switch in the system, so I had to select mains or Inverter, never both at the same time. To make sure, I would manually trip the circuit breaker before switching between mains and inverter. That is the only safe way to wire them, if wired permanently to vans GPOs. The inverter was not big enough to run the M/wave or Aircon, but was in effect wired to all of the 240VAC GPOs, so the only thing to remember was not use either of them. Had I, the inverter would overload and trip, blowing the fuse, so again no problem. [/QUOTE]
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