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Niehoff website has troubleshooting guides to follow and will diagnose what the bad component is.
Yours is the N1225 generator with N3135 regulator.
https://www.ceniehoff.com/Documents/Ctrl_Hyperlink/TG0017B_uid882013200562.pdf
If you are going to be running a lot of 12V circuits then that isn't a bad way to go.
I do just want to double check, you're putting in a converter that only does 5 amps of 12V power? That isn't very much power (60 watts) so is that just for the phone charger and maybe an LED light or two or...
yeah, those are minimal loads.
If you look around though you can find 24V chargers and LEDs.
I've been using one of these, my only issue with it is the LED voltage readout is pretty bright.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07F84VVB4/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Yes, you would connect to the lower battery's positive terminal and then negative would just go to ground.
You always want a fuse to protect everything, if a wire were to run through and short out the fuse keeps the wire from turning into a heating element and catching everything on fire.
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