I am installing a 2500W inverter and wanted to have it manually switched on/off on the line from my battery to the inverter to eliminate any possibility of it draining the battery unless I turn it on.
It came with an inline 300Amp fuse, but I can't imagine I would need a switch that size as well, would I?
What are you powering a small village?? LOL. You could use a 300 amp resettable circuit breaker. Thats the easy route. Or you could use a battery isolator and run the switch for the isolator inside the vehicle.
Not quite a village. I will be using it for some power tools and some lighting for work. The bulb I will be using will be 300W and sometimes simultaneously running a pump or power tool. Could have gotten away with like maybe a 750 or 1000W model, but I got a good price and figured more won't hurt, but I didn't think about the switch when I made the decision.
It has an On/Off on the face of it, but it says it draws less than 0.5 Amps when not under load. I don't know if that is just when it is powered up with nothing pluged into the AC portion or if it is a constant 0.5 when attached to DC power source, so I don't want to take any chances and I'll just install a switch between the battery and the unit.
