Best generator
I'm new at rving but I've researched every site about best or quieter generators and I'm still at odds. What do y'all recommend? My bro in law just ought an Onan but just inot sure!
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pianotuna wrote:valhalla360 wrote:
Can you throw $10k at a solar system and get part time air/con, sure but a lot simpler and more reliable to just get a generator.
Define part time.
I could run my roof air for more than 3 hours in 2009. Cost of the system to do so was less than $2000. Cost for panels and charge controller was $6.64 per watt. Now panels are well under a dollar a watt (lowest price I ever saw was $0.26 per watt). My battery bank was 7 marine batteries @ $700.00. They lasted 12 years. The inverter was a Cobra 2500 watt MSW but rated to run motors.
3hr is wildly different from 16-24hr per day.
Keep in mind, it's not just the cost per watt of the panels. You have to find mounting systems. Also, a battery bank sufficient to run longer periods can force you to move up to a heavier duty truck...which costs more.
Yes, to get reliable full time air/con on solar is technically possible but not practical.
