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Inverter generator? [message #329080] Mon, 12 February 2018 10:25 Go to previous message
Deb is currently offline  Deb   Canada
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Location: Logan Lake, BC
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It's been a while since I've been on board here. But have kept my eye on you all! Spring is coming here (someday!) to the mountains of BC, and I am hoping to be able to get the old girl out on the road finally. Never made it last year due to surgery and wildfires!!

Aside from finding out whether my winterizing was effective (plumbing-wise), and whether any critters found the coach more comfortable than my crawl-space (which is heated and the warmest place in town I think!) my biggest problem (I hope) is going to be the barbarian!! Never did get it to run last summer, and when it did turn over she clanked and banged like the wee man himself was inside with a ball-peen hammer. And I really don't want to spend the first 6 weeks of the summer trying to get her to work, only to have something else on her fail. She is 40 years old, and not well maintained I think by the PO of the PO I got her from. He had it working, then it quit and he was unable to get it running again.

I am much more inclined to replace the old unit with either a new on-board generator (Honda or newer Onan), or perhaps one (or 2) smaller portable, inverter gennies. I am seriously considering a portable unit - more likely 2 smaller ones in parallel - there's only me and a 100+ pound portable generator is hardly portable under those circumstances. Would be easier for me to service rather than it being bolted in-place.

I will be travelling with 2 small dogs so I will need to run the a/c to a certain extent, but the coach was very well insulated during it's rebuild, it's white so reflects a lot of sun and I don't plan on a lot of boon-docking. I have never been a big a/c person, either in the car or the house, so we are all 3 of us used to being a little on the warmer side. I have 2 6V golf cart batteries in the house bay, and was thinking that, with the Onan out, I might have room for one or 2 more.

The upshot is - I don't mind spending the $$. I am retiring this summer and want to start travelling around. I need something that I know (as much as one CAN know these things) will run and I won't have to tinker with to keep it that way. Maintenance is one thing, continuous fiddling and finger-crossing is another.

Opinions? Suggestions? Has anyone gone the portable route?

Thanks. Tìoraidh!

Deb

Deb McWade Logan Lake, BC, CAN GMC Alumnus It's Bigger on the Inside!

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