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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et2 wrote: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.
I start my generator monthly and run under load for about an hour. My generator is very quiet and none of my neighbors has complained. I do always mention to them what I will be doing ahead of time. I guess I have not traveled enough to find a time when I needed the generator running to cool the coach. So far I have been able to cool things sufficiently w/o it running. Our rear bedroom has an AC from the engine. This combined with our dash AC has been sufficient so far. My inverters do have the capacity to run the fridge and an AC (we have a total of 3 ACs on the roof) without sweating so I guess even in hot travel I would not need to run the generator, but as I said, I have not encountered this situation yet.
