[Richard]

Well……..sometime during sleep, a quick and easy diagnostic came to me concerning Ron’s problem.

I owe Ron an apology for not thinking of this earlier. On the Newell coaches, starting somewhere in the late nineties, Newell added a really neat feature. They took the 120V output of the inverter and ran it to a junction box that contains breakers for the inverted circuits. At that junction box are TWO plug ins. One is to receive 120V power from the inverter, the second is to totally bypass the inverter and receive power directly from overall house system, which is of course originates from the pedestal.

All Ron had to do to check the continuity of the transfer switch, plugs, pedestal, cord reel, and breakers was to simply unplug the inverted circuits from the inverter and plug them into the land line plug. If his circuits activated, then the problem would have been instantly isolated to the inverter.

Mea culpa, I hope this helps someone in the future trying to diagnose a power issue.