Generator

avvidclif1 wrote:

is it friday yet? wrote:
We don't have one for our 5th wheel but I have been considering getting one. It would be nice to have while staying the night at Walmart's on our way south in the winter to run space heaters and keep the battery charged. I just found this one at Cabela's. Looks like a decent price for the Champion with a wheel kit and remote start.

Champion generator

Fire one of those up in a Wally World parking lot and they will probably ask you to leave. Sounds like a jack hammer and about as subtle.

Not necessarily. It all depends. I had that model and mounted it on my rear bumper and boxed it in. It didnt quiet it as much as I would have liked. You are right that it's much louder than a Honda or yammie but for $400.00 with remote start it's a great value. I did run mine all night in a Walmart one time with the ac on and it basically sucked but it did the job. I was the only person in the lot. We were sort of stuck in a no rv zone in Fl and asked at a no overnight Walmart and they let us stay.


I would describe the champion as a middle of the pack model. It's far better than the small muffler contractor types but certainly not a Honda. Again it's great for the money but to do it again, I think I would look at the ac unit closely and try to go more to a suit case size quieter Honda/Yammie wannabe type unit (Generac/Champ). Some ac will run on the borderline units, some wont.

If a generator is going to be used a lot, buy a QUIET one and be done with it. If you want to stop for lunch and it's 90 degrees and you want to fire something up, a cheap one will work. If you want to be in a gen allowed park at times, get a quiet one. JMO