Generator on for Ac while traveling

shelbylen wrote:
Thanks for all the input. I didn't know if that was a norm or not. Our class A has about 32,000 miles but right at 100 hours on the genny. So when I was doing my math either the previous owner didn't run it much in the summer, didn't use the ac, or I am just wrong on the amount of hours I feel it should have. This is what got me thinking. Thankfully I asked because I would have been flipping out if the air shut off with a quarter tank left. LOL Thanks for all the advise

We have never had to run the roof a/c while we were on the road and we have traveled while the temp was 97 deg. Quite frankly I was surprised how well our dash a/c works especially for a 2006 model motor home and it being a DP with the engine in the rear. It could be the design of the motor home itself as we have sliding doors between the kitchen area and bathroom area and between the bathroom area and bedroom and we keep them closed when traveling. Having a 100 gal. fuel tank I have never let the tank level get under 1/4. We have a residential refrigerator and really don't even need to put the inverter on invert if we travel for 8 hrs. or less as the newer refers are very well insulated. But we do, I mean after all what do we have the inverter for? I run the generator once a month for one hour under load and have used it several times for overnight at a walmart or when we have lost shore power. It seems to be running very well. So, I wouldn't waste the fuel running the roof a/c underway if I didn't need it.