3000W Chinese Gensets Info.

professor95 wrote:


The air in the camper shell heated up quickly -- too quickly. I ended up having to put a 20" box fan at the front of the bed where the slider window was open to blow air out the open rear hatch over the tailgate.

This was the weekend that my AVR failed - possibly due to too much heat.

That's actually a bit depressing now that I think about it. If I need to leave all the topper windows open and possibly add a fan just to keep the thing cool enough, then any sound suppression added by the topper is likely diminished greatly.

I cannot lift that generator into or out of the truck without the forklift or autolift, and the truck bed is the only possible place for it in my situation. Further, I don't want to build such an elaborate cooling/ventalation system that makes getting it into/out of the bed a bigger hassle as I need the bed clear during my everyday non-camping activities.

If a standalone cover somewhat similar to what I described could be made with the necessary fans/vents/air-flow built into the cover, and still be manageable for installation over the gen while in the bed of the truck I might have something workable. Maybe with a 7 pin pigtail that could be run over the tailgate and down to the 7 pin at the rear hitch receiver to provide 12V power for the fans. Then leave all four windows on the topper open and hope the cover with built-in cooling can do the job.

I use this same gen with the wheel/handle kit for power outages at home and construction at our rural property so I don't want to build a permanent type cover onto the generator.

I will get through the coming weekend, but looking ahead, my wife and I want to do more boondocking and non-hook-up camping, and feel the unabated noise of the open frame generators to be too disruptive (for our enjoyment). I have no idea if solar is even an option for us as we camp mostly in heavily tree'd campgrounds and actively seek out sites that have a good sun-blocking canopy around them. I'm guessing that at least some sun is required for actual solar operation. :)

It may be that the one generator (champion in this case) cannot fulfill some of the requirements for the various applications we want to use it for. Not a knock in anyway against the champion as it has been a great generator for us and is a tremendous value, but it can't be everything to everybody.