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The preferred way to connect the inverter/charger is to wire the dc cables directly to a house bank (via an appropriate fuse) with a minimum of cable length. Make sure that the ON/Off switch on the inverter/charger is always in the OFF position so that the Link 2000 remote is in control. The charger will always "see" a battery with this installation (unless there is a fault). You can always use your battery switch to parallel other batteries, if desired. Keep in mind that with the Link 2000 there is no reason to have two separate house banks.

Use the INVERT and Chg buttons on the Link 2000 remote to enable automatic operation of the charger and/or inverter functions. Normally the "auto invert" function is left disabled in case your shore power is disconnected when you are away from the boat thereby preventing unnecessary discharging of your battery. Normall the auto chg function is enabled so that whenever ac is present you charge the batteries.

Note that you can set up the Link 2000 so that if shore power is intermittent that the charge function always goes directly to float, if desired.