Small C or longer B+?

F1bNorm wrote:
Pnichols-

Just curious.

You said " Quiet and vibration free built-in generator for considerate and convenient extended air conditioning usage when drycamping in warm weather"

Our Winn Aspect came with an Onan Microquiet 4000 gen and it is pretty far from quiet and vibration free. Is yours the same? Ours does the job, but it's real annoying for a long period of time. Also, it's not so bad when I take my hearing aids out

Winnebago seems to have handled the installation of our Class C's Onan 4000 watt gas generator quite well.

The generator is mounted well up off the ground inside it's exterior cabinet, with none of the bottom of the generator visible from the outside so that no noise can directly reach an outsider's ears from the Onan's green outer case. The bulk of the outside noise is the swishing sound of the cooling air, which primarily is heard as reflected sound off the ground under the open bottom of the generator cabinet. When we're parked on soft ground, this generator air cooling sound is even more muffled.

Inside, the generator mounting area falls underneath the thickly carpeted flooring where our feet rest in the dinnette. The dinnette table top further kindof isolates/contains any humming noise making it through the heavy carpeting. There is very, very little floor vibration felt elsewhere through the coach's hard surface and carpeted flooring areas.

We can easily nap or read or watch TV in our Class C with the generator running powering the air conditioner... we are barely aware of the generator's low humming sound over the sound of the air conditioner's fan when the fan is on it's low setting. With the A/C's fan on it's high setting we are hardly aware of any Onan generator sound at all.

When the generator is running we're of course aware of it a bit if we want to be, but it's not irritating enough for us to want to give up the comfort of warm weather air conditioning. We have even run the generator and air conditioner nearly through the night so we could sleep while drycamping in summer in the extreme heat and humidity of the U.S Deep South.

I feel that the noise and vibration of a built-in generator should be reason to accept or reject purchase of an RV regardless of it's other merits. Tolerable RV heating is important and so is tolerable RV air conditioing. The weather is changing, and an RV should be ready to comfortably deal with it going forward ... especially in light of what one pays for RVs.