luberhill wrote:
So if winter or fall camping or when you are dry camping and just want to watch tv do you bring along a small Honda or whatever generator instead of using the onboard LOUDER generator ?
I know some have said they use the small Honda’s to run their ac too with that Soft Start or whatever it’s called add in
We carry along a very small and ultra-quiet 650 watt four-cycle Honda generator along with us in our Class C motorhome to use for battery charging. We save the built-in Onan generator for air conditioning, microwave cooking, hair dryers, emergency electric heating, etc..
The little Honda runs at a steady 54 dB sound level at all times - no irritating up and down RPM changing noise like the inverter Honda generators produce. It runs 5-6 hours on 1/2 gallon of gas.
However, in between running the little genny for periodic battery charging, we run the propane furnace, watch TV, and charge phones from our coach batteries. When drycamping we can get by doing this for about 3 days before we have to fire up the Honda for a quiet 5-6 hour run.
We have a small Class C motorhome, so we can also idle the main engine to fast charge the RV batteries for an hour or two from the alternator. Idling the main engine is way quieter than any generator.
