[Doug Musick]

I am normally plugged into shore power except when driving, and then if it's warm out the gen is on to power the AC and thus everything else. When not hooked into shore power and with the generator off, my house batteries have plenty of power to cycle the aqua-hot blowers and pumps, fridge, water pumps, microwave etc. for 8 or more hours. With the increased capacity of the Lithium batteries, I should be able to boon dock/drive for about 16 or more hours without any other power source. In cool weather it would be nice to occasionally boondock for several days, but it just isn't feasible with all the creature comforts in the Newell without a Gen or an impressive solar array to keep things charged up.

I'm leaning to just inactivating the solenoid as you described, maybe leaving it wired and installing a manual on/off switch on the house side of the solenoid in case I need to merge because of a dead bank (either one) so I can start the Gen or Engine if needed in a pinch. That would eliminate the risk of the merge solenoid switch being accidentally bumped by me or my grandkids, and accidentally burning up the alternator.

I'm sure I don't have a blue diode isolator, at least not in the engine bay electrical box with the chassis wiring and remote start. I'll look again tonight.