Portable Generator Solutions

valhalla360 wrote:
If you don't want to use a generator to show how tough you are more power to you but don't expect everyone else to follow you plan. Certainly not those using their precious vacation time.

TomG2 wrote:
Who said anything about being tough, or trying to tell you how to enjoy the RV lifestyle?

Some of us are lucky enough to camp in less than one hundred degree temperatures. Some of us like to spend most of our time outside our RV's. I do the Winter Texan thing to enjoy milder winters and cooler summers. If you can't, or don't choose to, definitely your choice. Personally, I am not going to sit around a campground with a bunch of "quiet" generators howling night and day. I am not going to be confined inside by heat or cold either. Spend your time and money any way your little heart desires. Enjoy RVing.

valhalla360 wrote:
That was not directed at you.

Sound guy made a post that he happily camps in 100F weather so why should anyone want the hassle of taking a generator along.

Nice try at distorting what I said but no cigar for you. :W No, I did not say anything about me "happily camping in 100F weather" and therefore concluding that everyone else should also. :R I merely said that you're not going to die without A/C while camping for a few days - all sorts of people do it every summer, especially those tent camping & many popup camping, and in fact people have been living through hot weather for thousands of years without A/C and have managed just fine. Nor is this about being "tough" or being a "survivalist", exaggerations to be sure. :R

The OP has said that he expects to dry camp without shore power just a few times each season, the rest of the time he'd have shore power, so IMO it's logical that after all this discussion he would now question whether investing in a genset so he can run A/C those few times each year is even worth it. In his posts he's also asking for what is probably impossible - something small and light weight that he can store in his trailer without smell but which will power his A/C. At the very least he'd need a 2K genset and perhaps by also fitting a Micro-Air Easy Start Soft Starter Kit to his A/C he might make this work, particularly if he chose the new Honda EU2200i. However, might is the operative word because as ambient temperature rises so too will A/C compressor head pressure, just as will any genset's power output decrease as elevation increases, the result being that even this combination may not work for him in all situations he expects to encounter. In that case his only recourse is to go to a much larger genset but that won't meet the criteria he set out in his original post. Bottom line - for such little use I'm saying he may be just as well to forget the whole idea of a genset & all it's attendant drawbacks and just deal with hot weather without A/C those few times each season he may not have shore power available. Apparently this concept is confusing for some but it's hardly rocket science. :S