Do you exercise your generator in the winter?
How many of you exercise your generator monthly during the winter? Obviously this only applies to those who have to winterize and store your unit... I bought my first RV right at the end of the se...
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I exercise our Class C RV's built-in Onan generator every month with a load. HOWEVER ... not for the reasons mentioned earlier in this discussion.
I exercise it to check and make sure it's probably still gonna work - so I'm not surprised on a camping trip at our first drycamping site with a non-working generator. The same reasoning holds true regarding our backup portable generator, the refrigerator, the cooktop, the furnace, the water pump, the lighting systems, and the RV's battery charging system. I run all of these occasionally between trips to help eliminate camping trip surprises.
Our camping trips are too special to have to turn around and come home, or look for on the road (expensive) repairs ... when things fail.
I exercise it to check and make sure it's probably still gonna work - so I'm not surprised on a camping trip at our first drycamping site with a non-working generator. The same reasoning holds true regarding our backup portable generator, the refrigerator, the cooktop, the furnace, the water pump, the lighting systems, and the RV's battery charging system. I run all of these occasionally between trips to help eliminate camping trip surprises.
Our camping trips are too special to have to turn around and come home, or look for on the road (expensive) repairs ... when things fail.
