Help with Generac Generator

sleepy wrote:
I don’t want anything I can’t stop and Surat from inside rather camper

Or anything I have to plug in... except at home.

We have traveled for more than 6 months at a time... never opening the extension cord door.

Thanks.... your way would work for most people.

If I decide to buy a new Onan it will be because I’m not sure how many Generac specific parts will be available in the future... I have a world of trouble finding repairmen or parts now.

I am carefully weighing ever suggestion now.

I think you’re on the right track, Chet. You just can’t beat the convenience of a built-in gen set. Considering how you use your TC, it makes a lot of sense to replace the Generac with an Onan.

Just out of curiosity, how many hours are on your Generac? I have the same unit in my 1121, just a couple years older than yours. Mines a model 941-1, and yours is probably a dash 2 or 3. Mine has about 125 hours on it. But, our traveling styles differ.

While you and Janet are never in a campground, we are typically in a campground about 90% of the time, and about half of those times are in campgrounds that at least have electricity. When we camp without hookups, it’s almost never anywhere that AC is necessary just to get a decent nights sleep. I have and will continue to run the AC off the Generac when needed, but as you can tell from the hours on it, that hasn’t happened very often.

Our biggest electric need is for the microwave, and that’s only for 10-15 minutes. Over 95% or our electricity needs can be met with my Yamaha 1000 generator, which I always have with us. To keep from having to unplug from the Yamaha, plug in to the Generac and fire it up just to zap a frozen dinner, then shut it down again and swap back to the Yamaha, I installed a 1500 pure sine inverter that can run the microwave while the Yamaha is running.

You gotta do what fits your style best. I’ve kept an eye on the parts availability for our Generacs, and you’re right, they are getting scarce and expensive. Some aren’t available at all as a new part, only refurbished or used. If anything major breaks on mine it’s coming out. When you pull yours out, don’t forget about the separate inverter unit that will be installed somewhere close to the generator. Not sure where they put them on the 1161, but it won’t be very far away. The connecting cable is only about six feet long. It’s in the step below the dinet slide in my camper.

Good luck, and let us know how the replacement works out!

:):)