30A adapter
Good afternoon. We are looking to purchase a multi-use generator (emergency home and maybe boondocking). The unit we are looking at has a L5-30R plug, but I believe the male end of my Grand Design T...
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You anti-generator bigots need to slow down and read what the OP posted......TWICE.
The OP said he is wanting this generator “for emergency home use and maybe boondocking”. In his second post (which I’m not going to quote because it’s already been quoted and ignored once), he’s described usage that is totally home emergency use. So I would say that his intended usage is PRIMARILY home use.
Neither situation will bother you or any other campers. The OP is from Texas, and I’m inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt that “boondocking” means nobody else will be around that will give a shyte.
As for home emergency use, he said he will be running it on NG, which is a good plan for obvious reasons. Using NG as the fuel source will de-rate the generator output to about 7KW though, so that should be kept in mind. I don’t consider it to be over-kill for a unit that is primarily for home standby use.
It has 240 volt circuits, so it could be used for a small central air system, but you’ll have very little capacity left of you do. Since the OP has NG available at home though, if he has gas furnaces, the generator can be used to run those. I’m sure he’s very well aware of this now after the power problems Texas just experienced, staying warm can be critical in a winter power outage. If he experienced a long outage in the summertime, it has enough excess capacity that it could be used to run a portable or window mounted AC.
It’s also large enough to run all of the critical loads in a typical house, and allow you to live more or less normally during an extended outage. You need to consider powering things like refrigerators, freezers, pumps, fans, garage door openers, hair dryers, microwaves, washers and dryers, and probably a few things I’m forgetting during an extended power outage.
Raife, just for comparison sake, I have a 10KW home standby generator installed at my house. It uses NG for the fuel, so its de-rated to 9KW. It has the ability to provide 240 volts, but I’m not using it for any 240 circuits because that reduces the number of 120 volt circuits the transfer switch panel can support. It’s powered us through several extended outages over the years, most of them in the wintertime. We’ve had a couple of long summertime outages though, and I’ve had to use a portable AC to give us a cool place to sleep, and cool the room the boss uses as a home office. It’s run for as long as a week continuously, and will add about $100 to our gas bill after running that long. I remember one of those summertime outages that the daytime temperature was getting over 100* every day, which also de-rates its output, and the generator was running very close to overload for several hours each day.
Now having said all that, for strictly RV use I prefer the quieter inverter based units, even if nobody else is around to hear it. My TC has a 3600 LP generator built in that is an inverter type, but it’s used so seldom that at 20 years old it has less than 150 hours on it. I also carry a Yamaha 1000 that’s much quieter than the built-in, and I use the snot out of it. It has no hour meter on it, but I use it all the time both at home and camping.
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The OP said he is wanting this generator “for emergency home use and maybe boondocking”. In his second post (which I’m not going to quote because it’s already been quoted and ignored once), he’s described usage that is totally home emergency use. So I would say that his intended usage is PRIMARILY home use.
Neither situation will bother you or any other campers. The OP is from Texas, and I’m inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt that “boondocking” means nobody else will be around that will give a shyte.
As for home emergency use, he said he will be running it on NG, which is a good plan for obvious reasons. Using NG as the fuel source will de-rate the generator output to about 7KW though, so that should be kept in mind. I don’t consider it to be over-kill for a unit that is primarily for home standby use.
It has 240 volt circuits, so it could be used for a small central air system, but you’ll have very little capacity left of you do. Since the OP has NG available at home though, if he has gas furnaces, the generator can be used to run those. I’m sure he’s very well aware of this now after the power problems Texas just experienced, staying warm can be critical in a winter power outage. If he experienced a long outage in the summertime, it has enough excess capacity that it could be used to run a portable or window mounted AC.
It’s also large enough to run all of the critical loads in a typical house, and allow you to live more or less normally during an extended outage. You need to consider powering things like refrigerators, freezers, pumps, fans, garage door openers, hair dryers, microwaves, washers and dryers, and probably a few things I’m forgetting during an extended power outage.
Raife, just for comparison sake, I have a 10KW home standby generator installed at my house. It uses NG for the fuel, so its de-rated to 9KW. It has the ability to provide 240 volts, but I’m not using it for any 240 circuits because that reduces the number of 120 volt circuits the transfer switch panel can support. It’s powered us through several extended outages over the years, most of them in the wintertime. We’ve had a couple of long summertime outages though, and I’ve had to use a portable AC to give us a cool place to sleep, and cool the room the boss uses as a home office. It’s run for as long as a week continuously, and will add about $100 to our gas bill after running that long. I remember one of those summertime outages that the daytime temperature was getting over 100* every day, which also de-rates its output, and the generator was running very close to overload for several hours each day.
Now having said all that, for strictly RV use I prefer the quieter inverter based units, even if nobody else is around to hear it. My TC has a 3600 LP generator built in that is an inverter type, but it’s used so seldom that at 20 years old it has less than 150 hours on it. I also carry a Yamaha 1000 that’s much quieter than the built-in, and I use the snot out of it. It has no hour meter on it, but I use it all the time both at home and camping.
:):)
