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pnichols
Mar 26, 2015Explorer II
Niner,
When drycamping ... the Onan is for air conditioning anywhere anytime, a microwave oven anywhere anytime, electric heating, cooking, and refrigeration anywhere anytime should the propane system ever run low on propane or otherwise fail, and to run the 120V AC compressor to pump up a tire or a balloon. The last time I checked, I noticed that life is unpredictable.
The little Honda is for everything else ... if it'll run at 9,600 feet with the jets that came in it. :B :

By the way and for what it's worth, I bought my first and only scrambler motorcycle brand new in Utah and rode it at their altitudes for four years - including high up on ski trails in the summer. It was a great bike and ran great as delivered by the dealer. I brought it back to Central California and did not change it's jets. As a result, I burnt a hole in one of it's pistons and gave it away with parts of it in a box. From that experience, I learned a valuable negative lesson about running lean (this applies to internal combustion engines, not my body weight). ;)
When drycamping ... the Onan is for air conditioning anywhere anytime, a microwave oven anywhere anytime, electric heating, cooking, and refrigeration anywhere anytime should the propane system ever run low on propane or otherwise fail, and to run the 120V AC compressor to pump up a tire or a balloon. The last time I checked, I noticed that life is unpredictable.
The little Honda is for everything else ... if it'll run at 9,600 feet with the jets that came in it. :B :

By the way and for what it's worth, I bought my first and only scrambler motorcycle brand new in Utah and rode it at their altitudes for four years - including high up on ski trails in the summer. It was a great bike and ran great as delivered by the dealer. I brought it back to Central California and did not change it's jets. As a result, I burnt a hole in one of it's pistons and gave it away with parts of it in a box. From that experience, I learned a valuable negative lesson about running lean (this applies to internal combustion engines, not my body weight). ;)
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