What makes a generator specifically a "RV" generator?
Or, I suppose it would be more accurate to ask what the difference is between a normal portable generator and one meant to be permanently installed in an RV? Is it just a different frame that it's mounted in/on?
My camper is an old Amerigo truck camper without an on-board generator. My electrical needs would be pretty simple, as I generally don't use AC when camping, and rarely to never go to campgrounds (I have a reservation at one for the Memorial Day weekend as part of an annual 4x4 club run, which is the first time I will have stepped foot inside a camp ground in about 25 years). I've just recently "upgraded" to the truck campers a few years ago after many years of just using a truck bed tent, and even then was using 70's bare bones shell campers (no built in electrical or plumbing).
I really just want something to recharge the house batteries occasionally, a back up plan just in case the truck batteries go flat after sitting for a while out in the middle of nowhere, or the ability to run electrical power equipment if the need to repair one of the 4x4s at camp arises.
Being that my truck has a flat bed on it, I was planning on getting something like a 2K watt generator, and placing it in an underbed storage box for slightly better theft resistance, and to keep it out of the elements.
Can I put something like the Honda EU2000i generator in one of these boxes with the exhaust and intake plumbed outside of the box, along with electrical wiring connected to the camper, and leave it there permanently, or should I be looking at the generators intended to be mounted into an RV for this kind of setup?
My camper is an old Amerigo truck camper without an on-board generator. My electrical needs would be pretty simple, as I generally don't use AC when camping, and rarely to never go to campgrounds (I have a reservation at one for the Memorial Day weekend as part of an annual 4x4 club run, which is the first time I will have stepped foot inside a camp ground in about 25 years). I've just recently "upgraded" to the truck campers a few years ago after many years of just using a truck bed tent, and even then was using 70's bare bones shell campers (no built in electrical or plumbing).
I really just want something to recharge the house batteries occasionally, a back up plan just in case the truck batteries go flat after sitting for a while out in the middle of nowhere, or the ability to run electrical power equipment if the need to repair one of the 4x4s at camp arises.
Being that my truck has a flat bed on it, I was planning on getting something like a 2K watt generator, and placing it in an underbed storage box for slightly better theft resistance, and to keep it out of the elements.
Can I put something like the Honda EU2000i generator in one of these boxes with the exhaust and intake plumbed outside of the box, along with electrical wiring connected to the camper, and leave it there permanently, or should I be looking at the generators intended to be mounted into an RV for this kind of setup?
