2015 or 2016 T@B inverter question ?

MAG

How can I find out if the inverter in my 2016 T@B is a pure sine wave inverter ?

Marceline

MAG said:

How can I find out if the inverter in my 2016 T@B is a pure sine wave inverter ?

T@Bs don't come with inverters. So if your T@B has one it was likely installed by a previous owner. So you'll have to find the model information on the inverter itself (assuming you don't have the literature that came with it) and look up the information on the manufacturer's website.

MAG

Thats interesting, I guess I really don't understand the electrical workings of the trailer. I thought that the 12 volts that power the different electrical items in the trailer came from some kind of inverter. I am installing a 12 volt compressor type Fridge. I took the 3 way Norcold out and disconnected the 12V lead that the Norcold used in its DC mode. I metered the lead and it read 12V. I assumed that the voltage came from an inverter. 

VictoriaP

Simplified explanation:
An Inverter takes 12v DC current and changes it to 110v AC current. (110v is what you have in your house.)
A Converter takes 110v AC and changes it to 12v DC. There should be a converter in your T@b, it’s a black panel usually under the dinette with breakers and fuses in it.

Inverters have never been stock on smaller T@bs. I believe they can be ordered on the 400 series, which was not manufactured at the time your T@b was made. So IF you have an actual inverter, it would be aftermarket. Norcolds generally are 2-way (12v & 110v) or 3-way (with propane). Neither of these requires an inverter.

Sharon_is_SAM

@MAG, the TaBs come with a CONverter that reduces 120v to 12v.  The inverter uses 12v power to run 120v ac appliances.

I would send an email to nuCamp tech to see what converter they were using in the 2016 models and go from there.  We have a 2017 CSS and an ARB that recommends using only a pure sine wave converter and the ARB works fine with our stock converter.

ChanW

To go a little further with the previous excellent explanations...

'Pure sine wave' refers to the output of an inverter, as your original posts suggested. But the 'wave' part of that expression is in reference to AC (alternating current), which is what 120V house electricity is.

The 12V that you want for your new fridge is DC or 'direct current', and therefore has no 'wave' component.