Generator
Hi All, thank you for all the help you have given me in the past few months getting oriented to my new 2016 Coachman Freelander. I'm the traveling grandma. I have taken a couple of trips so far with n...
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gja1000 wrote:
Do you all run a tank of gas through your motor home every month? If I have to, then of course I will.
Our motorhome is a few months shy of 7.5 years old. The generator has about 200 hours on it. I try to exercise the generator every month for about 30 minutes. Sometimes I put a load on it, sometimes I don't. At the very least, I usually put the A/C Fan on and turn on all the lights, so the Converter/Charges goes into boost mode. If it is the summer, I'll put the A/C on if its the winter, I'll put the furnace on.
Our Motorhome has a 55 gallon fuel tank. The generator burns about 1/2 gallon of fuel per hour. The generator cuts off when the tank has about 14 gallons left in it. So it would take about 82 hours to burn through the motorhome's fuel tank. I'm not running the generator for 3 days to exercise it. Our manual for the same generator says exercise it from 1 hour a month at half load.
If you aren't able to exercise the generator once a month, then look into a fuel stabilizer to keep the generator's motor from varnishing.
-Michael
