What size of generator do you have?

I just have a hard time getting rid of generators..I have a 1200 Watt 2 cycle/2000 watt Honda/3000 watt Honda/4000 watt Generac XL and a 4000 Watt Onan.

If I had to have just one,the 3K Honda would get the nod because it does it all and is the quietest by far.I usually take the 2K Honda during the part of the year it is not boiling hot out because it does everything but the air and it's light weight and easy to put in/out or where-ever I want it.

The Generac 4K is super noisy (68db) but very reliable and the 4K Onan is also pretty loud compared to either Honda and temperamental compared to any of the others but a good gen set if you follow the rules to the tee.

Quiet is important to me even though I never camp by others and almost always am boondocking..

tragusa3 wrote:
...I've used it to run the A/C (once), it has not been worth the extra weight I lug on every trip.

That's usually what happens.

7.5K Onan diesel. Sits in pickup on 5 th wheel and will handle AC. Hooks into 100 gal Aux tank and can run my house for 8 days in an emergency. Can't hear it run.

I have a Yamaha 2400 Doing it again, I would buy a Honda 2000. For the number of times I've used it to run the A/C (once), it has not been worth the extra weight I lug on every trip. Come to think of it, since getting a nice set of 6v batteries, we've only "needed" the generator a small handful of times.

I use a champion 4000 w when I plan on using air conditioning. Other than that I carry a WEN 2000w inverter genny. Mostly I rely on solar panels. When no air conditioning is needed.

:) Hi, I bought a Yamaha 2400 because it was the smallest, lightest, single generator that would run my air conditioner.

The OP has a small trailer some of which have ' window unit ' air conditioners . If so he may be able to run air on a 2,000 . I run a 6,000 btu window unit on a Honda 2,000 in my sailboat .
When I bought the air conditioner the salesman ask me how many BTU did I want ? I replied ," I want enough BTU to cool a B U T T as big as a T U B !

We have one of each of these. Depending if we need the A/C when we go out depends on which we take.

Champion 1200/1500

Champion 3500/4000

We also camp out in no man's land away from everyone we can get away from.

I just bought this guy last season for my Passpost 2920BH and it runs everything in the trailer like a champ. I am in LOVE with the remote start as well on days when the brown bottle flu from the night before makes me not wanna roll outta bet to fire things up for the AC.

http://www.championpowerequipment.com/products/inverters/75537i-3100w-inverter/

RvingSailor wrote:
.. the Champion unit from Costco that's rated at 3500wt running/4375wt peak. I think this should be plenty to run my A/C. Cheers! ~rs

And plenty of racket to drive you and the neighbors crazy.