Hemi Joel wrote:
From the responses, I gather that a modern built in inverter generator for a truck camper is still not available.
So I'm going to move forward with adapting a portable into the existing space.
I think I can get it to work. I'll start a new thread on it when I get started.
The market segment is so tiny, I sincerely doubt there ever will be. Truck campers are a minute fraction of all RV sales, and only some TC's come with generators.
If built-in generators were a thing in travel trailers, you might see something, but as far as I know, few to none of the travel trailers out there have generator options.
Generators are only common on motorhomes, and they're still largely the clanky old fashioned Onan units. Their solution to noise is to insulate the coach, not come up with a quieter generator. Plus the motorhome units are much too large for a TC.
Your idea of mounting an inverter generator in the compartment is nothing new. People have asked about it for years. You need to address ventilation and cooling so you don't end up inadvertently filling the TC with carbon monoxide, and don't burn up the generator from heat.
Those generators are computer designed to operate sitting on the ground, in the open, in their factory cases. The manufacturers will not support their use in any other fashion, and will not provide any information on how much ventilation you need or the effects of piping the exhaust out of the compartment. You are on your own, and if you don't know what you're doing, people will find you dead in your camper one morning. It's more involved than gobbing the inside of the compartment with silicone and sticking a pipe on the end of the muffler to direct it out of the compartment.
