Texman 182g Mods

thanks motor, i will check.  it is off (i think)  i really have no idea what it could be.  it is total silence inside, which doesn't mean alot.  all of the mods i made that are electrically related have a switch. the new meter i added is 4 ma.  i wonder if i have the tv booster on.  i plan to start pulling fuses i guess and hope that yields some results.  but, once identified, that does not fix the problem of the drain on the battery. 

After clearing the Klein to start at zero, I consistently get .57-.59amp at all off. The meter I installed is close but I think I need to reset again. Pod is on battery so I will check in the morning again.
Thanks for all your help.

But I have 10 ga wire that is 2 ft long. That should be 30 amp.

Many higher quality inverters do have a standby mode where they draw a few tens on mA to run the control board only, then turn onthe power section every say 10 seconds long enough to see if there is a load on the ac line. If there is they stay on, otherwise they shut down the power section off.

Yes you should have a fuse or circuit breaker on the inverter positive line if that is coming off the battery. It is there for the same reason you have cb’s in your panel, to protect the conductors from burning up from shorts and faults. So you size the wires and fuse or cb the same way the electric code would require you to do it for your ac household circuits. That is, you would size the conductors for the max rated inverter input current and then select the fuse or cb for that wire size. That max current should be in your inverter manual, if not it is going to around the inverter max output power rating divided by 12 divided by the inverter efficiency, which is usually around 80-90 percent, so around 60A for your inverter. That will be 4 awg wire. I know that sounds high but you’re dealing with a lot of current at only 12V. Many bigger inverters are run with 2/0 or 4/0. By doing it that way you won’t have nuisance cb trips or fuses blowing if you use the inverter at full load, and most importantly you won’t have circuits burning up. The cb or fuse should go as close to the battery positive terminal as you can so it protects the whole circuit from faults and shorts.