Generators - brand differences?

wa8yxm wrote:
Both ONAN and Generac are good brands.. Now ONAN Is perhaps the more common generator in the RV world. and Generac in the non-mobile world, but the fact is both are top rated and I'd have no qualms about either in either service.

I do have one suggestion: If your RV is a 50 amp, install at least one TT-30 outlet.. This should be enough (I put in two, and a twist lock)
RV generators may be 120 volt only... (my ONAN is) but I put one on each leg. This means that I can daisy feed an RV on either side of me (Done it a few times) but due to one more outlet I was also able to daisy feed my house

on the house I put in a proper INLET (30 amp) and a Proper Generator transfer panel.

Plugged the custom made extension cord into house, uncoiled as i walked to RV, plugged in, "installed" the Gen-Turi (Well put it on, the Install had been done earlier) pushed the buttons in the approve patteren, waited in the RV for the transfer switch to do it's clunk.. then to the basement and the transfer panel

Click: Lights
Click: Heat (it was after all 12/31/2005)
Click click and a bunch more clicks
More lights, computer and modem, TV and Radio, Microwave, Fride, Freezer and more.

The mods and cord and power panel.. Well they totaled (along with some other improvements) about a thousand dollars

Warm wife... Priceless.

Thanks for the reassurance. We are out the door once the wife finishes her hair. The units we are looking at are both 30 amp - which is great since I don't want to have to re-run 50 amp service to our RV pad. It is quite a run from the power pole up there. It has the standard 30 amp RV plug. No adapters needed, and rated circuit breaker and cabling to boot. I work in the power generation field, so I am a stickler for IEEE compliance.

As for our house, I have a combo welder/generator for that, and another 4.5 KW generator just for the well house.