Questions about power for overnighting

NinerBikes wrote:
Sometimes you just gotta quit being such a cheapskate, and just go spend the money and get an air conditioned room. It's the nature of trips through the midwest and south during the hotter months of the year, budget accordingly.

Cheapskate has nothing to do with quick overnight stops in Walmart parking lots (with permission), church parking lots (with permission), Port-of-Entry parking lots (with permission), Cracker Barrel parking lots (with permission), out in back by farmer's barns (with permission), and truck stop parking lots (with permission).

Convenienceskate is what it's all about. When we're shooting for making time on long RV excursions, I'll be dead and gone before I drive all over the place in maybe late afternoons trying to find a "hookup" campground when the places I just mentioned are close to main travel routes. And this includes touring the Southern U.S. in August. We don't want to have to camp for comfort at high altitude or only in places with temperatures below 75 degrees - that's not what self-containment and the money you spend for it is all about.

As for as staying in an air conditioned room with one's $$$ RV sitting outside unoccupied just because of generator paranoia - one has to be kidding. Not in a million years would we do that - assuming that the RV's built-in generator and air conditioner(s) are high quality, well installed, and fully operational!!

BTW, bedbugs can be an expensive nightmare to get out of an RV or stick house once a person has stayed in the wrong rented room on the wrong night.

Almot wrote:
Most RVs carry el-cheapo generators with no provisions made to quiet it down during a short-term stay.

My Onan 4K retails for around $3100.00. Winnebago installed it well in our Itasca. As installed by Winnebago - in a cabinet up high with none of the generator hanging down low enough to see it so it has walls completely encircling it's top and all sides - it's plenty quiet enough if I had to camp next to it and listen to it. As installed, it easily exceeds "forest service generator noise standards". Onan built-ins are not el-cheapo and neither is Winnebago's installation on our particular Itasca.

By the way, I wonder how many of those ranting about generator noise have ever strained to hear a Honda EX650 charging batteries? They need to try it sometime before continuing their rants against "all" generators.

Boy ... are we really getting off topic. :(

R.V. Park.

The alternatives cost thousands of dollars. It's an "A" or "B" choice.

Almot wrote:
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Why drinking coffee in a 90 degree heat, is a mystery to me.

True coffee addicts need it year round. :)

pianotuna wrote:
I won't run a generator while I'm sleeping.

Alas very often in the summer time I can't sleep if I DON'T.
ROCK ------ HARD PLACE.

Actually I only run it until about midnight or 1 AM.
And the gen only makes about as much sound as the A/C does.
And my exhaust has a "chimney".

Once the inside is cool and the outside goes below 70 or so, it's not needed anymore.

Clicky.

Why drinking coffee in a 90 degree heat, is a mystery to me.

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$30 on Amazon.
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I have a onan 4kw flat twin 1800 rpm generator. When my truck is idling you can not hear the generator. Yes it will make some noise it just sounds like a quite car.I have a automotive muffler on it not a generator silencer.

I won't run a generator while I'm sleeping.

is it friday yet? wrote:
It's not very easy to hear a twin cylinder Onan generator in a compartment with side exhaust.

I have yet to see a generator that I can't hear, or the one that is "not very easy to hear". Most RVs carry el-cheapo generators with no provisions made to quiet it down during a short-term stay.

Back to the topic - it is difficult to run A/C without a generator, no matter how small the rig. With the smallest and most economic A/C and extremely well insulated rig you still need 300-400 AH bank for just one night. Most RVs are big and poorly insulated. I would imagine a small well insulated RV with Li battery bank and a small inverter type A/C (I don't mean "the other inverter"), - don't know if inverter A/C under 9000 BTU even exist - in any event, such thing would be expensive.