Location of generator in fifth wheel trailers?
Pardon my ignorance....but I was wondering if there is a specific location for generators in 5ers?
Forum Discussion
LIke all new RV'ers we wanted to have a generator to run our whole trailer. Reality very quickly sets in and then we started planning on what we really could do generator wise... Large generator setup is not for everyone... Sometimes storage space is more important for other things. This is no different for the small POPUP trailer setup like we have or the big 5th Wheel trailers.
I carry my 2KW with me covered and secured in my truck bed all the time. Basically my small generator is only used to run the trailer's on-board smart mode converter when camping off the power grid to charge up my battery bank each morning when allowed to run generators at the camp sites.
Where we camp here on the East side of the US it seems most public camping places including the Natl Forest areas all seem to have generator run time restrictions. With this in mind we elected to reduce our battery drains, beef up the battery system, and only run the items we wanted to have operating from INVERTER and Batteries for the one day/night run. Then re-charge the batteries the batteries the next morning using the smaller generator so we can do it all over again for the next day/night run off the batteries..
To use I plug the trailer shore power cable into the 2KW Generator 120VAC Receptacle using a RV30A-15A LONG "DOGBONE" style ADAPTER.
I would never leave my 2KW Honda Generator unattended around my trailer. To big a thief issue for me..
Roy Ken
I carry my 2KW with me covered and secured in my truck bed all the time. Basically my small generator is only used to run the trailer's on-board smart mode converter when camping off the power grid to charge up my battery bank each morning when allowed to run generators at the camp sites.
Where we camp here on the East side of the US it seems most public camping places including the Natl Forest areas all seem to have generator run time restrictions. With this in mind we elected to reduce our battery drains, beef up the battery system, and only run the items we wanted to have operating from INVERTER and Batteries for the one day/night run. Then re-charge the batteries the batteries the next morning using the smaller generator so we can do it all over again for the next day/night run off the batteries..
To use I plug the trailer shore power cable into the 2KW Generator 120VAC Receptacle using a RV30A-15A LONG "DOGBONE" style ADAPTER.
I would never leave my 2KW Honda Generator unattended around my trailer. To big a thief issue for me..
Roy Ken
