Is 3000W genny enough?

Yes - I have the Champion 3100W and it will power my 15k AC and everything else, but it doesn't like it when I add the microwave. The microwave will sputter. Costco has it for $699 every few months. It looks like it is on sale again for that price -

http://www.costco.com/Champion-2800wt-Running--3000wt-Peak-Digital-Inverter-Gas-Generator%2c-Carb-%2526-EPA-Certified%2c-Low-Decibels.product.100139466.html

Yes. But you might check out the average Alaska temps for the time you're going. May not need AC.

I think you're right ,wildtoad, about the Alaska temps but since I'm doing it I might as well be ready for later trips in the lower 48

Nunyadamn wrote:
Yes - I have the Champion 3100W and it will power my 15k AC and everything else, but it doesn't like it when I add the microwave. The microwave will sputter. Costco has it for $699 every few months. It looks like it is on sale again for that price -

http://www.costco.com/Champion-2800wt-Running--3000wt-Peak-Digital-Inverter-Gas-Generator%2c-Carb-%2526-EPA-Certified%2c-Low-Decibels.product.100139466.html

Cabela's 3500/4000W Champion generators for $349.99

Clicky

Bill

Trackrig wrote:
Cabela's 3500/4000W Champion generators for $349.99

Sorry, could you please YELL by typing your entire response in CAPS so we can hear you over all the racket that open frame Champ genset you're recommending is making?! :E

IIRC years back when i was looking at truck campers they came with a 2800 gen set and you had to alternate between AC and microwave?
bumpy

I never had any luck running a generator around here at public camp spots on the East side of the US. Seems like everywhere we go has generator run time restrictions. A couple of hours in the morning and maybe three hours in the later afternoon. Never after 8PM... This includes the Natl Forest sites around here... I did find a couple of Natl Forest areas that allowed the generator from 8AM to 8PM but never after 8PM...

We only use a small 2KW generator for three hours each day when allowed to re-charge our battery bank when needed... We beefed up our battery banks and run off the batteries then re-charge again the next morning when camping off the grid.

Out West and at DISPERSED camping sites seems like you can use one more often.

But yet I hear everyone buying generators haha...

Roy Ken

It's funny how posters ask about buying a generator to run their ac's, yet I see so very few ever actually doing that. When it gets hot, they sit outside.

I think most people find it a hassle to mess around with a generator to run a/c all day. They seem to have no trouble running it to watch TV.

SoundGuy wrote:

Trackrig wrote:
Cabela's 3500/4000W Champion generators for $349.99

Sorry, could you please YELL by typing your entire response in CAPS so we can hear you over all the racket that open frame Champ genset you're recommending is making?! :E

If he was buying one, he might as well pay less for it. I have three 2000i generators and I consider them to be rather noisy - prefer the sound of my 7.5KW Onan, but then I've lived around around a lot of diesel generators. To bad they don't make a portable 8KW Witte.........

I also own some Champion generators for things like my air compressors with heavy start loads that a Honda Inventor generator won't get within a 100' of without dying.

Different generators for different purposes.

Bill

Trackrig wrote:
Cabela's 3500/4000W Champion generators for $349.99

Sorry, could you please YELL by typing your entire response in CAPS so we can hear you over all the racket that open frame Champ genset you're recommending is making?! :E

Trackrig wrote:
If he was buying one, he might as well pay less for it.

Different generators for different purposes.

Who are we kidding here? ... every generator is noisy, but open frame synchronous generators such as you linked to are NOISY and not at all suitable for use anywhere anyone else may be around. And yes, as one who has owned two EU2000i gensets, even they are noisy, just less so than an open frame. As for "dfferent purposes", nonsense - the purpose of any genset is to provide a steady source of 120 or 240 vac power, nothing more, nothing less. Cheap out on an open frame genset for camping and it's a given you're going to PO an awful lot of people who may be unfortunate enough to be within hundreds of yards of where you're running that racket bomb. :M