Running A Generator While On The Road
Hi All, Sorry if this has been asked before but here goes. We just purchased our first toy hauler. It's a KZ Sportsmen Sportster 355TH12 fifth-wheel. This is also our first fifth-wheel. The unit c...
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Everybody has their own configuration. I was a RV technician long before I ever got my first RV.
Running the generator while traveling is just fine. If you are traveling a good distance (all day), I would stop about 2 hours before the destination, and fire up the generator, and the A/C units so it's cool when you get there. If it's cold, obviously you don't want to do that.
A generator in good repair, and tuned, and all components in good working order, should use about a gallon of gas an hour, under load. For a motorhome, it's so much cheaper, and more efficient to run the generator and roof A/C's than to run the dash A/C. The dash unit cools the front of the coach, and nothing else. And......it uses more than a gallon an hour, as your traveling.
I've had a 40' toy hauler, a pop up, and now I'm on to motorhomes. I run my generator almost all the time.
If you wanted to get an inverter, as somebody suggested, look into a solar panel for the roof. It will charge batteries as you travel, and sit in a park. You could use a small inverter just big enough to power just what you need and not the whole 5er.
Another subject that ALWAYS brings out the gloves, is 6 volt batteries. If you have the room, and can run 4 6 volt batteries, with a solar charger, you'll be hard pressed to run those batteries down. Unless you have an inverter big enough to run a street.
Running the generator while traveling is just fine. If you are traveling a good distance (all day), I would stop about 2 hours before the destination, and fire up the generator, and the A/C units so it's cool when you get there. If it's cold, obviously you don't want to do that.
A generator in good repair, and tuned, and all components in good working order, should use about a gallon of gas an hour, under load. For a motorhome, it's so much cheaper, and more efficient to run the generator and roof A/C's than to run the dash A/C. The dash unit cools the front of the coach, and nothing else. And......it uses more than a gallon an hour, as your traveling.
I've had a 40' toy hauler, a pop up, and now I'm on to motorhomes. I run my generator almost all the time.
If you wanted to get an inverter, as somebody suggested, look into a solar panel for the roof. It will charge batteries as you travel, and sit in a park. You could use a small inverter just big enough to power just what you need and not the whole 5er.
Another subject that ALWAYS brings out the gloves, is 6 volt batteries. If you have the room, and can run 4 6 volt batteries, with a solar charger, you'll be hard pressed to run those batteries down. Unless you have an inverter big enough to run a street.
