There are scenarios where one might want to prevent a battery isolator from combining the house and chassis 12v systems:
Isolator/relays/solenoids, etc, use mechanical or electrical means to combine the chassis and house 12v systems. These mechanical or electrical means will require a small amount power to operate.1)
If the device's own power source is disconnected it will turn off and 12v systems will be separate again.2) Using a High Voltage Disconnect to kill power to the device will stop the alternator from charging the house battery at a given voltage setpoint.
Shutting down the device will require different approaches, depending on where it gets the power to operate itself.
Purely Mechanical devices like solenoids and relays use 12v trigger or exciter voltage3) to operate. They will either have 4 lugs or 3 lugs; in the latter case grounding is done through the base of the device.
Power to these devices is disrupted by interrupting power to the trigger+, which is one of the small lugs.4)
Voltage sensing relays (VSR) typically take power from the chassis battery and have a thin ground to complete the circuit.
Power to VSRs is disrupted by cutting the ground wire. One way to reestablish the ground (thereby turning the device on) is HVD –> relay NO contacts –> ground wire in/out
It is unlikely you will need an HVD with a diode-based isolators because:
But it is theoretically possible alternator voltage is so high that even with the drop you might want an HVD. Some solid state isolators have a trigger or exciter input; control with HVD as with solenoids and relays.
Three lug isolators without exciter input might not be usable with HVD.