Question for Winnebago Class B Owners
I currently have a Class C Winnebago View, which I love, but I sometimes see these Winnebago Era Class B's going down the road and think "so nice and compact", but then I remember reading about the ge...
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Tiger4x4RV wrote:
I think that the underhood generators used in some B's (Winnebago, Roadtrek, etc.) are really second alternators. They do not have to be exercised and having one frees up space for storage. Advertising touts them as quiet, so they can supposedly be used at any time without violating the no-generator hours at camps.
The down side of the under hood alternator/generators is the MB Sprinter diesel idling issue. Some say it's an engine killer, and others say it's not. There are many threads on it with real world experience and some have contacted MB for guidance on the do's and don'ts of idling their 3.0 V6 diesel engines for extended periods. If the engine generator is of sufficiently high output, some say the run times can be tolerated. It's a complex issue, and I'm not (yet) an MB Sprinter chassis owner, so am only commenting from memory after reading extensive discussions of it on other forums.
One of the better class B forums was (oddly enough)
www.classbforum.com
Much good info about many different class B makes/models and much about van conversions in general, and specifically.
