Generators and more
Hi e'one! Newbie and already had some great help on my first question on here. A few other q's now. First, I have a 2005 Silverado 2500, Allison trans, 4.10 rear end, and just bought a 2012 Cherokee G...
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browntljm wrote:
We are considering a small generator, as we are planning on camping in Federal and state parks that have no electrical hookups. We have a Heartland Bighorn Fifth wheel 3070rl, we don't run the air conditioner. The main 120v electrical uses would be, the TV for area weather, blow dryer, toaster, hot water heater just to heat up occasionally, refrig, recharge the phones. Would the 2000 watt work for our needs? we would not be using everything at the same time.
Can't imagine why you'd run the water heater on electric and not gas, likewise there's no need to run the fridge on 120 vac either assuming it's a gas absorption model. Sure, a 2K genset would serve to power a toaster or hair dryer or 120 vac televsion but so too would an inverter, provided you have sufficient battery reserve to power it. Since you say you don't ever plan to run A/C then it would seem you'd really only need a genset for recharging your batteries, in which case a 2K would be quite sufficient.
