Seven in four...

[deryk]

Doing a little further reading it depends on the size of the rooftop ac unit.

Honda generators wattage chart guide

A 7000 btu unit would work fine, a 10,000 btu unit would be pushing it to its max...

but yamaha makes a 2400 watt unit...

[Raz]

Jim, is it true the people of Elkhart are erecting a statue to honor your efforts in keeping the place alive? Good story, thanks for sharing. Raz

[Steve Hammel]

Originally Posted by deryk

Doing a little further reading it depends on the size of the rooftop ac unit.

Honda generators wattage chart guide

A 7000 btu unit would work fine, a 10,000 btu unit would be pushing it to its max...

but yamaha makes a 2400 watt unit...

Yes but look at the weight of the Yamaha. Might as well go for the Honda 3000 which is a fantastic generator and has electric start. Honda does make a smaller/lighter 3000 now but I don't have any "experience" with that one.

This is all just my opinion but the best way to use a Honda generator for an extended period of time is on the "ECO" setting for peak efficiency.

[Steve Hammel]

Originally Posted by P. Raz

Jim, is it true the people of Elkhart are erecting a statue to honor your efforts in keeping the place alive? Good story, thanks for sharing. Raz

I agree, what a journey at least you found your way home, or in your case found your home.

[cpaharley2008]

JIm, was the slide actually made with a flaw that would cause the slide motors to continue burning out? I wonder, because just having a motor burn out one time would seem to suggest nothing more than a bum motor.[/QUOTE]

There is no manual back up for the dual motor electric slide, you have to unlock the motor in order to manually push in or out. Mine stopped working at my house and it was retracted. The only access to the motor while retracted was to tear off the exterior trim to gain access(design flaw, all they needed was an access panel) once unlocked you would have to wedge 2x4 inside to keep it from opening while towing, I'm not towing anything held together by a wedged 2x4. Both of my motors were replaced. Then the slide never retracted 100%, there was always a 2" gap at one end, no way of adjusting it.

[dbailey]

I've always been of the opinion that slides are a bad idea... Exactly because of problems like those experienced by cpaharley. I think a slide could be designed well (mostly problem free, and fail-safe when a problem does happen) but I have yet to hear of any "good" ones. I guess it's a difficult design challenge because of competing requirements (weight vs. strength).

It's too bad, because extra space in a trailer is never a bad thing. I'm not a claustrophile -- I like my elbow room.

[Donna D.]

I have friends that were stranded in Montana for a full week, when one of the slides on their monster 5th wheel wouldn't retract. Between the repair bill to have someone drive 80 miles one way (had to make two round trips), the wife's plane fair back to Oregon so she could go back to work, the extra week of camping fees, etc. made me very glad I own a simple little all molded trailer!

[Sue and Henry]

Great story :-) I really enjoyed reading about the seven in four! I am with Donna. I love my little 13 footer and can't imagine switching - that said, I always go to the "for sale" section first on my fiberglass RV visits. (Don't tell Bennie the Burro - he gets so jealous!)

[Raz]

Originally Posted by Donna D.

I have friends that were stranded in Montana for a full week, when one of the slides on their monster 5th wheel wouldn't retract. Between the repair bill to have someone drive 80 miles one way (had to make two round trips), the wife's plane fair back to Oregon so she could go back to work, the extra week of camping fees, etc. made me very glad I own a simple little all molded trailer!

Come on Donna, keeping your slide working is just another maintenance issue.

[Francesca Knowles]

Originally Posted by P. Raz

Come on Donna, keeping your slide working is just another maintenance issue.

Is that picture of the Trillium "with rear slide" for real?



Francesca

[rabbit]

Like the bump out, Raz. Is photoshop the licensed distributor?

Jack

[mary and bob]

In our 45 years together we have had 4 campers, we still have 3 of them, and 2 of them get used regularly, the third is ready to use but hasn't been in a few years. Would we like something different, maybe, do we need something different, probably not.

[Francesca Knowles]

I haven't even had seven CARS...in my entire life!

I do wonder, though, if my poor consuming habits make me a bad American .

Francesca

[floyd]

Originally Posted by deryk

Ive never seen that version of the tada! Ive seen the teardrop looking one and I was considering it except, no bathroom. I boondock at friends land and they have an outhouse... uh got stung on the nose by a wasp this year cause I happened to be the first person to use it this last spring. I figured I would be building another gypsy vardo and I swore the next one would be standup height and have a porta pottie in it. The shower will be nice to wash off the grime... and I will park further back then my friends cause I want a generator to power the ac if its ungodly hot... I usually had a 12 volt fan blowing down on me when I sleep but sometimes its just not enough.

I agree the aero dynamic shape makes it easier to tow.... the wind would ome over the roof of my rav4 and slam into the flat wall of my vardo and get hung up on the overhanged roof. I thought the next one the door would be on the back and put a "bay window" in to try to spread the drag lol. I think I just want a scamp and keep it simple.

deryk

You're thinkin' of the T@B

[Mike Magee]

Wow, that does sound like a crazy poorly designed slideout. And no manual crank backup... that's inexcusable. No wonder you got rid of it.

[cpaharley2008]

Footnote to this post, make it "8 in five" as I'm on the 2 foot itis list for a new2014 Escape 21, it will have features I did not have in my Escape 19 as well as features I had but did not use in my Escape 19'. Updates to follow.

[MillerK]

Your best bet for running an air conditioner with small portable generator is to get a pair of Honda 2000s and the parallel cable and extended runtime gas can set up. They can handle an air conditioner and something else working at the same time and when you are in cooler weather you leave one home and have a generator for electrical needs or a quick one or two hour battery top off during the least obnoxious time of day. The larger 3000 is great, don't get me wrong, but the paired set up seems to be a really good way to go without slipping a disc.

[deryk]

I have a Yamaha ef2400is and full of fuel its around 95lbs. I can carry it a short distance but it does get heavy. I know eventually I want a pickup truck and would look into a welded enclosure that could be bolted down and keep it in there.

The Yamaha easily runs my 5000 watt generator at less then a 25% load. I have run the microwave once at the same time and it did rev up for a few moments but backed right down. When traveling I store it in the doorwaywith the side of my galler to the left and the closet to the right it sits in their nicely... with just a few feet to move it to the tongue to chain it and hook it up.

Where do the rest of ya's keep the generator while traveling?

[cpaharley2008]

If you guys wish to continue this generator thread, I can certainly start a new one under that subject if you like. Let me know, otherwise back to the subject of the thread.