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Grit_dog
Dec 30, 2021Navigator
You have a dual AC 5ver that you plan on camping in hot weather with no hookups, so either state park type camping or boondocking.
1. Don’t be the toolbag who is running 2 genies all day so you can sit in your camper in the sweltering heat.
2. Regardless of what you think your budget is, remember “cheap, fast or good, pick 2”
I’m sure the cheaper brands will work ok or not. But I’m also sure the good brands WILL work better.
3. You’re complicating your situation. Your wants or needs are why campers are offered with built in generators. Concentrate less on the brand and first on the logistics of what you’re planning to do.
My experience comes from not just personal generator(s) for home or camping power, but 25 years of 100s or maybe 1000s of generators used in construction. Every off brand generator that somehow gets purchased doesn’t make it very long. There’s a reason they cost half as much as a Honda and Yamaha.
1. Don’t be the toolbag who is running 2 genies all day so you can sit in your camper in the sweltering heat.
2. Regardless of what you think your budget is, remember “cheap, fast or good, pick 2”
I’m sure the cheaper brands will work ok or not. But I’m also sure the good brands WILL work better.
3. You’re complicating your situation. Your wants or needs are why campers are offered with built in generators. Concentrate less on the brand and first on the logistics of what you’re planning to do.
My experience comes from not just personal generator(s) for home or camping power, but 25 years of 100s or maybe 1000s of generators used in construction. Every off brand generator that somehow gets purchased doesn’t make it very long. There’s a reason they cost half as much as a Honda and Yamaha.
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