smkettner
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That manual does not sound so bad after all. I think you have found the trouble. Now you need to decide if you need to live with it or replace it. The inverter would appear to be functioning as designed.
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Knute3
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My Xantrex does the same thing. If the inverter is on and I fire up the genset to charge the batteries, everything will stay on, but when the genset it shut down, the inverter reset is delayed such that the DVr and sat dish and TV all reset. It is a freedom 2000w model. Xantrex said that there is nothing I can do to change that. Pain in the butt when something is recording and then the DVR has to reset.
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wa8yxm
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Well re:TV and Sat receiver re-starting: The good news is that they do restart
Some inverters switch quickly, like what they call a UPS. In fact I consider my Prosine 2.0 to be a UPS since it performs all the functions of a very very large UPS. When I used Dish-network, the sat antenna (Motosat) would reset, for some reason now that I'm using direc, it does not. That one I can't figure out 
Now, there is also something called an "IPS" Where as a UPS switches in 1/30 second or less, an IPS may take a second or two to switch, thus you loose power for a bit. I suspect yours is like this. IT takes too long to switch.
If it bothers you, try a UPS on the devices you don't want to reset
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Hurricaner
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In a nutshell some inverters will do a hot switchover quick enough to not loose power and some won't. Also some transfer switches can be forced on and some can't. My BIL has a 2000 watt dimensions inverter and I believe he can make the switch without loosing it but the 2000 is a completely different machine. If the inverter plugs into a receptacle you could fool it by uplugging before you start the gen, or the whole time you are boondocking and just run off the inverter, but that will cost some battery charge amps.
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Many people suggest shutting things down manually before changing power sources, and I normally unplug before turning on the generator or let the generator shut off before plugging in-I don't have a built in inverter to play with. However, the only reason I have ever seen for the inconvenient approach is that sometime one of the contacts in a transfer switch might stick in the wrong position and connect two power sources together, resulting in spitzensparken. If everything works right, you don't have to do it that way-do you wear belt and suspenders? One would only point out that the belt and suspenders approach will always keep your pants up for sure!
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smkettner
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wa8yxm wrote:If it bothers you, try a UPS on the devices you don't want to reset
Excellent solution. You only need a few seconds of power so a small unit would be fine.
Although you will be using the inverter to charge the UPS battery a little and possibly use some additional power for overhead.
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Deen
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dunedancers wrote:
The manual is useless but a fellow RV'er told me that I should be able to turn the inverter on with the generator running and then turn off the gen. If I do, the TV and sat receiver "restart". That doesn't seem right.
Steve Same thing with mine except I don't have a sat receiver to worry about.
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dunedancers
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When you say "UPS" as in "Uninterruptable Power Source", is that like the APC Battery Back Ups we use on our computers? If so, wouldn't they constantly try to put AC into the inverter, even if the generator was off, keeping the inverter off? Am I missing something?
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dunedancers wrote:When you say "UPS" as in "Uninterruptable Power Source", is that like the APC Battery Back Ups we use on our computers? If so, wouldn't they constantly try to put AC into the inverter, even if the generator was off, keeping the inverter off? Am I missing something?
You are correct, it's UPS as in "Uninterruptable Power Source", that APC Battery Back UPS we use on our computers. If you plug the UPS into the inverter output, the UPS will pick up the load for the couple of seconds while the inverter is switching.
It should be plugged in: gen/shore power -> inverter -> UPS -> TV, not: gen/shore power -> UPS -> inverter -> TV. Then it will work fine.
My Xantrex Prosine 1800 will either switch quickly (1/30 second) if I have it on, or slowly (2 sec) if I have it in standby. Standby uses a lot less standby power.
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dunedancers wrote:If so, wouldn't they constantly try to put AC into the inverter, even if the generator was off, keeping the inverter off? Am I missing something?
The UPS is after the inverter. Plug the UPS in the wall and plug the tv etc into the UPS. Some are small enough they look like a power strip. The inverter will turn on in a few seconds after the generator shuts down as the inverter will not see the UPS power.
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