generator

TomG2 wrote:
How do you plan on using a generator, or do you just "Want one"? Many of us fall into the latter category and haul one around for thousands of miles without needing one.

Boy, can I ever attest to that! I've owned 2 different Honda EU2000i gensets, even built a really effective quiet box for the second one, but ultimately found I rarely actually used either one. Fortunately I bought each of them used, in great condition with low hours, so was able to later resell each for what I paid for them. It turned out to be such a PITA to drag around a genset time after time but never use it that I eventually stopped doing that. Ironically, on one of those later trips in the fall we lost campground power for 36 hours because of an unexpected snow storm that dropped a foot of snow and brought down power lines all around us, and where was my genset? - back home in my workshop. :S I sold it not long after. :W

FWIW, I still only run our trailer with one G27 battery even though I also have a 1000 watt PSW inverter installed for those times each season we inevitably lose campground shore power. Under heavy load the inverter does struggle a bit at full load with just a single G27 supplying power but using heavy 4 gauge charge cables to load support with my truck (idling) solves this problem entirely. Eventually I'll upgrade to a G31, maybe even a pair of GC-2s, but for my needs I've proven I can get along just fine without a genset.