mounting a propane tank to bumper
we bought a 2019 northern lite it has the two little propane bottles like you see on b b q grills. I am looking for a way to mount either two of the same size tanks to the large bumper or even be...
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When we got our Lance about 15 years ago, I had the same conversation with myself that you’re having. It was the first TC we’d had with a built-in LP generator, and I just knew the two 30 lb cylinders weren’t going to last very long if we were using it to provide air conditioning. That’s all true enough, but you know what? The opportunities (NEED) to do that have been few and far between.
First of all, it didn’t take me long to figure out that running a 3600 watt genny 100% of the time to meet our power needs that the vast majority of the time (95% or more) is less than 1000 watts, is pretty wasteful. Plus, none of the built-in generators are as quiet as a little 1 or 2KW Honda or Yamaha inverter generator. The built-in generator still gets used, but it’s typically for short duration things like nukeing a meal, or running the air conditioner while we take a lunch break.
So, I bought a 1000 watt Yamaha to carry around with us, and would use that when it was needed. We typically use a mix of campgrounds with hookups and without, so It’s only about 50% of the time that we need a generator. Most of the time when we need the generator, there are campground generator rules to abide by, so it’s not like we could run it 24 hrs a day anyway. Occasionally, we camp out in the boonies where there’s nobody around to care if we run a generator 24x7, and we do. I’d much rather listen to the Yamaha 1000 than the built-in Generac at those times.
Then there’s the “Do I even want to go somewhere in the camper that air conditioning is a necessity in order to be comfortable, but there’s no utility power available?”, and the vast majority of the time, the answer is no. We’ve done it a handful of times and toughed it out, but most of the time when we’re dry camping, it’s in a place that at least cools off at night.
The need to spend extended lengths of time somewhere that is brutally hot, with no power available just hasn’t happened for us, and we’ve been TC’ing for a long time. If the need arose, I would probably look at getting two 2KW generators that could be paralleled when needed.
:):)
First of all, it didn’t take me long to figure out that running a 3600 watt genny 100% of the time to meet our power needs that the vast majority of the time (95% or more) is less than 1000 watts, is pretty wasteful. Plus, none of the built-in generators are as quiet as a little 1 or 2KW Honda or Yamaha inverter generator. The built-in generator still gets used, but it’s typically for short duration things like nukeing a meal, or running the air conditioner while we take a lunch break.
So, I bought a 1000 watt Yamaha to carry around with us, and would use that when it was needed. We typically use a mix of campgrounds with hookups and without, so It’s only about 50% of the time that we need a generator. Most of the time when we need the generator, there are campground generator rules to abide by, so it’s not like we could run it 24 hrs a day anyway. Occasionally, we camp out in the boonies where there’s nobody around to care if we run a generator 24x7, and we do. I’d much rather listen to the Yamaha 1000 than the built-in Generac at those times.
Then there’s the “Do I even want to go somewhere in the camper that air conditioning is a necessity in order to be comfortable, but there’s no utility power available?”, and the vast majority of the time, the answer is no. We’ve done it a handful of times and toughed it out, but most of the time when we’re dry camping, it’s in a place that at least cools off at night.
The need to spend extended lengths of time somewhere that is brutally hot, with no power available just hasn’t happened for us, and we’ve been TC’ing for a long time. If the need arose, I would probably look at getting two 2KW generators that could be paralleled when needed.
:):)
