How install Inverter in 2022 Jay Flight SLX 8 242BHSW Rocky Mountain Edition

[steigw]

I've recently upgraded my Jayco to Lithium batteries and would now like to install an inverter. I found a thread on this forum about it it, but those people were lucky enough the wiring seems to lay out where to put the inverter.

My trailer has a pass through storage in the very front. Open the left hand door (opposite side of the trailer from the front entrance door) and look in the passthrough and immediately on the right top, there is a loop of wire. There isn't a nice label on that wire like in the thread I've referenced here.

Looking to the top left, which would be the very front bulkhead, there is a block of wood which seems out of place and I have no idea what could be behind it.

How would I figure out if that loop of wire is where an inverter could go.

This trailer has a WFCO power converter that is lithium compatible. It has a single solar panel with a Go Power solar charge controller.

I'd sure appreciate pointers on how to find the correct place to tap into the power and how to go about wiring a 30amp inverter into the trailer.



Just noticed both photos should be rotated 90 degrees to the right. That black box next to the wire loop is a LevelMate Pro

 

[JudyK-JAY22rb]

I've recently upgraded my Jayco to Lithium batteries and would now like to install an inverter. I found a thread on this forum about it it, but those people were lucky enough the wiring seems to lay out where to put the inverter.

My trailer has a pass through storage in the very front. Open the left hand door (opposite side of the trailer from the front entrance door) and look in the passthrough and immediately on the right top, there is a loop of wire. There isn't a nice label on that wire like in the thread I've referenced here.

Looking to the top left, which would be the very front bulkhead, there is a block of wood which seems out of place and I have no idea what could be behind it.

How would I figure out if that loop of wire is where an inverter could go.

This trailer has a WFCO power converter that is lithium compatible. It has a single solar panel with a Go Power solar charge controller.

I'd sure appreciate pointers on how to find the correct place to tap into the power and how to go about wiring a 30amp inverter into the trailer.View attachment 94618

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Just noticed both photos should be rotated 90 degrees to the right. That black box next to the wire loop is a LevelMate Pro

My only comment is: You have the wire but no label pointing the direction. It's okay, we've heard from those owners who did have a label, but found out upon their install process, the label was placed backwards on the wire.

 

[Grumpy]

My only comment is: You have the wire but no label pointing the direction. It's okay, we've heard from those owners who did have a label, but found out upon their install process, the label was placed backwards on the wire.

Unless I missed it, the specs do not show an Inverter Pre-wire option. That loop could just be excess wire looped over, unless it is tagged.

It however may be able to be used as an Inverter feed and as you said he would just need to figure out which direction the current flow is and what outlets are connected to it.

 

[craigav]

Unless that loop is near the breaker panel, then I doubt it would be for the inverter and instead was intended for an outlet that wasn't installed in your RV. ~CA

 

[FISTEP]

That is where my inverter loop is; in the forward cargo space. If you get the schematics from Jayco, it may or may not show it but my loop is wired to the two outlets beside the bed.

 

[steigw]

How would I go about testing to see if an inverter could be placed in there? Somehow putting an inverter in there would have to cause the trailer to "think" that shore power is connected and turn on all the electrical. Right?

 

[JudyK-JAY22rb]

No. That inverter loop wire (if that’s actually what it is, will only power the couple of outlets it is wired to, in the camper. This will often be the bed side stand outlets. , depending on model. In order
To power all your outlets with an inverter, you’d have to do a lot of rewiring.

 

[steigw]

The batteries are on the other side of the bulkhead. Wouldn't I need to just insert the inverter between the batteries and the fuzebox and that would power the whole trailer?

 

[craigav]

The batteries are on the other side of the bulkhead. Wouldn't I need to just insert the inverter between the batteries and the fuzebox and that would power the whole trailer?

In most inverter installs, a lot of consideration and planning has to be made and the more you would like to power the more complex and expensive the system becomes. Most factory inverter installs power only a few outlets, commonly the TV and perhaps a bedside outlet. Some will also power the refrigerator when the refrigerator is a household model.

Most inverters are not large enough to power the whole trailer and even those that are more often than not will need a lot more battery power than would exist in a factory RV setup (or even fit into the limited area even if upgraded to LifePo4). In addition to these thoughts, many inverters do not have a built-in transfer switch to switch between inverter and shore power and would need to have one installed. Once all of this is considered, then you have to determine what to do with the existing converter and if your inverter doesn't charge the batteries then you will need to keep your converter available which means at minimum you will need to always remember to shut it off when on inverter power, however many of the higher end inverters are also converters.

It is best to determine what is needed to be powered by the inverter and what budget you have in mind. There are many setups I have seen from others that are very well designed and very capable although they have a cost in the many thousands (some of them) of dollars and other setups are very simple and have a very low cost (comparatively) but are limited in what they can power.

Just to add, sometimes I see someone thinking they can run their A/C and everything else in the RV that the shore-power runs and do so with their existing battery bank and a few hundred dollars inverter, this is never the case though. ~CA