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Not an electrician, but I wired in my first receptacle for my new RV power converter
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
I was calling around my local electricians and they were either too busy or refused to work on motorhomes, so I had to learn how to do it myself. It was actually very easy and fun to do!
Sparkies don't wanna catch a bunch of flak when your inverter decides to eat your computer for lunch :)
I mean doesn't that apply to residential wiring too? If they are worth any salt that wouldn't happen. Also its a power converter, not an inverter. It changes 120v AC to 12v DC.
Well... Let's say you go on the Chinese junk webpage and find a huge inverter for cheap, and you plonk it in your RV and call the electrician to come wire up a bunch of outlets in your RV off that inverter.
Electrician is going to come out, determine the max wattage that the inverter can safely spit out and install a main breaker at that amperage, so that the total load you apply can't overtax the inverter. Then he might add a small breaker box if the wattage is high enough, and branch some lines out of it, making sure the breaker for each line is low enough that the wires can't be overtaxed (so they don't catch fire mostly). That's all he's really doing, is installing safety breaks, to protect your wiring.
You pay him, he goes off to the next thing, an you start plugging shit in, and a bunch of stuff starts acting up, because the great deal you got on that inverter was because it's a square wave inverter, and none of your stuff likes square wave. The electrician hasn't fucked up anything, you have. The wiring is never going to catch fire because he did his job perfectly, but your shit isn't working right because you don't have the right shit...
After a few iterations of stuff like that, electricians learn to simply pass on working with RVs, power walls, backup gen systems, etc. and leave the special stuff to specialist technicians.