Review of Progressive Dynamics RV Converters - AC/DC Converter and Smart Charger - PD4560K18LS8

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Ellen: Hey everyone. I'm Ellen here at etrailer.com and today we're going to be taking a look at the Progressive Dynamics RV Power Control Center with AC/DC Panel and Converter/Smart Charger. So this is going to be a lot of things all in one, and we'll go over why you want this and what those are going to do for you. So basically, why would you want this It's going to allow you to have one central hub for all of your electrical connections. So your AC shore power's going to come into this as well as your DC house battery power. Both of those systems are going to power different things in your RV.

Typically, the AC or shore power is going to run things like your air conditioning, your microwave, things that have a really high voltage, kind of more of your residential style appliances, hairdryer coffeemaker, anything that usually has a heating element is going to need to run off of AC power.Our DC power is going to kind of run everything else. So that's going to be our lights, fan, maybe the water pump, and some other smaller things. So a lot of times, whenever you're still plugged into shore power, you think "Great. I'm all plugged up. Nothing is going to drain the house batteries." But since it utilizes a different style of power, those DC accessories like your lights are going to drain those batteries even when you're connected up to shore power.

So by having something that's going to be a converter and having it all in one, this is going to power those DC accessories without you having to do anything. It's going to take that AC power, convert it to DC. AC just means alternating current, DC means direct current. So it's going to convert that so one can be utilized by the other.Makes it a lot easier for you. You really don't have to think about it.

It just does it for you. And this is also going to be a charger for our batteries themselves. So when our house batteries are hooked up to this, it's going to help make sure that they're charged. So they're ready to go whenever we do want to go off grid and run everything off of those DC batteries. It can work with both lead acid and also lithium, which is a nice improvement.

It used to be that there we're two different versions of this, one for lead acid and one for lithium. But now they've put those two features into one and it's just a small switch that you flip to change from one to the other. Of course, you want to do that whenever it's not hooked up or when you're just adding new batteries to the system, but we can look at all that good stuff right here.So there's going to be the door that comes off, does have one screw on the inside that holds it in place. Not one screw, but a couple screws up at the top. There's going to be four going all the way around, kind of melts in with this flange going on there. And then there's a screw holding this down in place there. But I have all that removed just to make it easy here. While we're looking at it, we can take a quick gander at this door. Has a little chart so you can write down all your breakers here so you don't forget what goes where. And then you can also see from inside there, we can still get access to all of our fuses. These are going to be automotive style blade fuses. So you'll be able to utilize those.And through this little bitty hole, you can kind of see it, but it's going to be hard. So I'm going to take this panel off so we can get a little better look at it. But inside that's going to be where we can find that switch for going through from lithium to let acid and re and reverse. So it's going to be this switch here that I have my finger on. You can see there's a little tiny LI and a little tiny LA. LI is for lithium, LA is for lead acid. So this little switch right here above my fingernail or right to the right of my fingernail, that's going to be the switch we're looking for. So it is something that you can reach and flip with just your finger, but it's a little bit of a reach. It's very, very small. So that's why I wanted to zoom in as much as I could so you can actually see that.But whenever you're switching from one to the other, just move that accordingly. So now I've got it switched up to the top so it's for lithium. Down at the bottom, you will notice this little blue button. This is going to be our wizard manual button here. So if you want to adjust the wizard charger, you can do it from that button. You might be won