Diesel Generator in tow vehicle

Heck..eventually these 3/4 ton and 1 ton trucks will run electric motors with diesel generators themselves...

But as to the OP, I have seen folk with them at campgrounds, but I have no experience with a diesel generator myself. My Champion Inverter (2800 maybe? Can't remember the model) runs my AC and will charge my batteries. I have a big solar kit that I need to install to keep the batteries charged, once I do that I won't need a generator :-) Well I prefer AC, but you know...

I've always wondered why trucks couldn't be optioned with a generator option running on the vehicle's engine + hybrid system. A computer could control the engine so that it wasn't running all the time.

Just plug into the an outlet in the bed and hit the switch.

I'm I the only one on here that remembers the Ford PowerPack? :W

I have seen several medium duty trucks with aftermarket beds that had built in Diesel generators. Every one I have seen had a Onan.

So you can only use the 120 volt appliances in the trailer when the truck is at the trailer. I guess when the wife leaves to go shopping or such everything in the trailer shuts down. Seems kinda silly but to each there own I guess.


The information is out there, all you have to do is let it in.

Happy Prospector wrote:
When I bought my truck it came with an alternator already installed, why would you want a generator for your truck?

Just guessing here, but probably to run the microwave, A/C and other things in his trailer that need 30 amps of 110 power to run. It's a little hard to get that out of an alternator. :)

When I bought my truck it came with an alternator already installed, why would you want a generator for your truck?


The information is out there, all you have to do is let it in.

I seen someone had one for sale online sometime back that he had built a alum tread plate box around. He said his Dad had built and used it while towing their 5th wheel. It was an Onan diesel, looked like a pretty decent setup, it had openings on the bottom for air cir and had the exhaust in the upward position. Just looked like a possible nightmare to service or work on.

christopherglenn wrote:
"Spilled diesel is forever"??

:h

I find it easier to cleanup after working on my diesel, than either of my gassers.

"Spilled diesel is forever"??