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Txsurfer
Explorer
Jun 29, 2016

mounting a portable gen in a gen housing on TH - why not?

Ok so I recently bought a Champion 3100 inverter generator and used it last week end in the bed of my pick-up. It worked great but I got to thinking - My TH has a generator box built into the unit a...
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fj12ryder
Explorer III
Jun 30, 2016
On my Onan the bottom of the compartment is pretty open and I assume that's for ventilation. The sides and top are enclosed, but the bottom is vented pretty well. I see that yours looks like there is no way to pull air in other than the door. I would think you'd need some way to pull outside air in, then over the generator, and out the door.

If you ran it like that the compartment would be an oven in a pretty short period of time.

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