Which Generator?
My Jayco Pinnacle fifth wheel is pre-wired for I assume an Onan 5500 Generator My original plan was to buy a couple of Honda 2000's and hook them together Looking at the specs for the Onan the s...
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paulbeauchemin wrote:Bionic Man wrote:
Advantages:
Don't worry about theft
Runs everything in the trailer
Much more convenient
Trade offs:
Louder than the Hondas
Uses a lot of propane
Wife would rather run an inverter if all we are doing is charging batteries
If I were to do it again, I probably wouldn't install an generator, I'd just go with two inverters and the parallel kits.
How much propane does it use? How long would a tank run the gen?
I didn't notice that the Onan is not the inverter type
According to the book, on propane it burns 3.3 lb/hr @ 1/2 load. Mine is gas and it shows .6 gal/hr @ 1/2 load. In real life unless the AC's are running continuously I can go well over 60 hrs. of continuous running on a listed 30Gal tank(???). One reason I got a toy hauler.
