Rear mounted generator
Evening. Couple questions about mounting my generator to the rear of my 5th wheel camper. I have a 40' foot Cross Roads Crusier bunkhouse and I would like to install my Onan 6.5K generator on ...
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Nicholsfamily05 wrote:
My only issue with mounting in the bed or my truck is I have a 2nd gas tank already in place.
I have a Transfer Flow 40 gallon auxiliary tank and the only place to mount it would be to make a frame to go above that.
I will have to look into if my trailer is prepped for a gen, I know it was prepped for a second battery but did not notic anything else while I was in there.
And I wasn't sure if having that dolly wheel would throw me into that category or not.
As for the design of the box itself I was thinking of building it out of aluminum with fiberglass sides and sound deadening material on the inside. He material is also fire rated so it serves double purpose and is light weight.
With gen prep, you should have a metal lining in the front compartment, with knock-outs for exhaust and vents already in it. You'll also need a transfer switch that switches the power over to the gen when it fires up; either manual or automatic. One thing that I've not seen mentioned anywhere on here about swivel-wheel totes, is that they =can= unweight the pin enough to cause stability issues. The local hitch/trailer shop that we use had to take one off a FW after it started weaving with a load on the tote. Someone did mention about re-distributing the load in his FW after adding a rear-mounted gen.
Lyle
