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Bedroom Outlets and your Inverter

In our coach, the three bedroom AC outlets function when plugged in the shore power, but not through the inverter.  A little investigation showed this was intentional, and the outlets are not wired through the inverter.  I assume this was standard procedure in and around 1999, and others have the same setup?

Has anyone ever rewired these outlets to function through the inverter?  Would there be any reason not to do this?
Easy, hard, expensive to do?
James
w/ DW Erin, sons Gideon and Tobias, cats Oscar & Oliver
Fulltime 1999 U270 34' #5508

Re: Bedroom Outlets and your Inverter

Reply #1 –
Our bedroom plugs work on inverter or shore power.  I'm not aware of any 110 plugs that don't work on the inverter, other than the ice maker plug behind the refrigerator.  Might have been a special request or rewired for some reason?

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Reply #2 –
The engine block heater plug under the bed is also shore line only.

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Reply #3 –
James,

Yes, you can move the feed (hot, neutral and ground) from the main panel to the inverter powered sub-panel.  As already mentioned, make sure to NOT power the block heater outlet from that feed.
Brett Wolfe
EX: 1993 U240
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Reply #4 –
When we had our newer inverter installed, I requested that the outlets on the bed base be swapped over to the inverter circuit.  My DW often needs a heating pad for her back/neck when going to bed, and this way we can power it off inverter when dry camping.  I was surprised to find it only draws about 7 amps on the middle temp setting, so not too hard on our batteries.
1993 U280 SE 40' WTBI, Build: 4359
C8.3 300hp, 6-Speed, Exhaust Brake
960 watts on the roof (6 x 160)
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Reply #5 –
Quote from: Blinded04 –

Has anyone ever rewired these outlets to function through the inverter?  Would there be any reason not to do this?
Easy, hard, expensive to do?

Many reasons, including the ability to run heaters. That inverter circuit powers the entire RV (TV, bathroom, basement, kitchen plugs, etc).

If you want an inverter plug in the bedroom, there is one up where the TV is. A better option is just to add another plug and wire it into the inverter sub panel. Best to leave what is there as is.
1998 U270 34'

Re: Bedroom Outlets and your Inverter

Reply #6 –
Every coach  is built differently, but there are often several outlets not on inverter, refrig, washer, vacuum, and all can be used to feed new coach interior outlets for high-amp appliances.  We ran #12 Romex, put a male plug on one end for the above outlet, and a female plug on the other end for a power strip or outlet.  We have several of these shore/gen only outlets.

Yes you can easily just move bed outlets to inverter panel, which usually has room for additional breakers.  Just be aware of what you plug into these outlets.