Generator rating
I have 1975 Terry 21' trailer and a 1998 Rockwood Ultra light. How do I figure out the wattage of generator I need for them?
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Where are you planning on using these large generators... Pretty big and heavy and noisy... Also alot of camping sites may have issues with them...
Normally here in lower states you just can't show up fire up the big and loud generator and go on your merry way haha...
Most public camp grounds with no hookups have generator run times restrictions and even sometimes only have certain areas where you can use a generator...
The Natl Forest areas just now here on the East side starting to do the 8AM to 8PM generators allowed. Out West here in theSstates you can find dispersed camping locations and you do what ever you want I guess...
Here on the east side I thing most of us will use a smaller 2KW type very low noise generator and only run a few things which does not include the Air Conditioner or the high wattage microwave...
If you are going to do the RV Traveling as opposed to the RV Camping off the grid then you can find places to run larger generator overnite parked somewhere I guess...
In my case I beefed up the battery system to run Power Inverters and direct connected to the battery things etc and then only use my small 2KW generator each morning to recharge my batteries back up if the battery banks has dropped down to its 50% charge state... Doing this and adding solar panels keeps you in battery power mode a long time...
You will find that if you camp alot off grid you will need a generator for sure and then can use solar panels to trickle charge the larger battery during high sun... You don't always have high sun all the time for the solar panels...
Just things to think about here... I'm sure things up north run about the same way it does down here to the south of you...
Roy ken
Normally here in lower states you just can't show up fire up the big and loud generator and go on your merry way haha...
Most public camp grounds with no hookups have generator run times restrictions and even sometimes only have certain areas where you can use a generator...
The Natl Forest areas just now here on the East side starting to do the 8AM to 8PM generators allowed. Out West here in theSstates you can find dispersed camping locations and you do what ever you want I guess...
Here on the east side I thing most of us will use a smaller 2KW type very low noise generator and only run a few things which does not include the Air Conditioner or the high wattage microwave...
If you are going to do the RV Traveling as opposed to the RV Camping off the grid then you can find places to run larger generator overnite parked somewhere I guess...
In my case I beefed up the battery system to run Power Inverters and direct connected to the battery things etc and then only use my small 2KW generator each morning to recharge my batteries back up if the battery banks has dropped down to its 50% charge state... Doing this and adding solar panels keeps you in battery power mode a long time...
You will find that if you camp alot off grid you will need a generator for sure and then can use solar panels to trickle charge the larger battery during high sun... You don't always have high sun all the time for the solar panels...
Just things to think about here... I'm sure things up north run about the same way it does down here to the south of you...
Roy ken
