Air Conditioner Generator Advice

Jsterner wrote:
I have a late 80's Champion Telstar RV. The RV itself is in good condition but, unfortunately, after spending over 1000 repairing the Onan Genset another component failed that will cost almost $2000 to fix.

For those more knowledgeable than I, if you had to power the AC, would you fix the 1989 800+ hour Onan generator, risk buying a used generator, purchase a cheaper portable unit or pay the painfully high cost of a new genset? Any and all help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Although you don't say what you had fixed, I'd say the first thing you need to do is find a new repair shop. If that Onan is the original in that rig it's not the computerized version we see today. There's not a lot to go wrong. 800 hours is nothing on those units. A friend has one as the primary source of electricity for his summer place on an island, it's got more than ten times that many hours on it.

The most common failure I've heard on those older units is either surface rust between the stator ring and brushes and / or loss of energy in the 'permanent' magnets, both of those things are fairly easy to fix, WITHOUT removing the genset from the RV.