Running generator while driving in the rain
Just had my Onan QS8000 first service. The tech was very good at the Cummins Bridgeway branch. He advised against driving with the gen running in a heavy rain. That it could get water injested into th...
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Medico wrote:
I do not know if this has been mentioned (did not read the whole thread, sorry). We do not need the generator running during travel. We run all our 120v (fridge included) off the inverter, which runs from the house batteries. The house batteries are charged from the coach system while running the engine, hence no need to run the generator in addition to the engine.
Some run the generator while driving to cool the coach when it's hot or cold. It's probably he only time the gen gets ran as most of the time shore power is utilized. Besides the gen needs to be statrted and under a load to keep it running properly, that's a good time to do this as your neighbors won't care for it running when parked.
