Was this just straight buying it or when they installed the unit ?? I had mine done in San Antonio, they told me the basic unit came with an 1800 but I could upgrade to the 3000.

 

My Rigmaster was loud but I went the Meineke muffler and they took the old muffler off, installed a pipe from the engine all the way to the back and put a real car muffler on. Very quiet. All for $135.

 

Look at the Pony Packs. Much more simple and over 20 years of experience.

 

I parked next to a truck with that Pony Pack APU a few weeks ago...and I ended up moving in the middle of the night! That thing is LOUD!!!!

But, loud as it is, it may be cheaper than an $8k tripac.....

 

TriPac is my vote. I have one on my truck and I had one on the company truck was driving earlier. The one on my truck had a bug or two that had to be sorted out after it was installed but since then it has run like a champ. It is by far the quietest of the diesel-powered APUs I've seen and the fuel use is negligable.

Jim

 

Honda. Preferably one that doesn't start on fire.

 

I had to buy a new generator for my 5th wheel this last weekend,so I went all in and bought a eu3000is Honda,any suggestions on mounting that on my truck? I have zero space on either frame rail and I also have a huge ass hose rack on the back much like a headache rack......any ideas? I would want to be able to take it off on occasion and take it in the RV.

And btw the way the damn thing is as quite as a mouse.Runs both the 13,500 AC and the microwave at the same time in the 5th wheel with the lights on.

 

Anywhere you can build a box to store it, then take it out when needed?

 

Those eu3000is hondas looked pretty good, and you can get used ones for around $1000 off craigslist.

If you need a big genset look on craigslist. My dad just got a 7500watt diesel one for $2500.

 

We had a pony pack and I have NOTHING good to say about it. It hardly ever worked and it was the loudest generator I've ever heard (followed closely by rigmaster generators!). Now, this was lik 6 or 7 years ago so maybe they've changed. I don't know. You don't see very many of them, though (at least, I don't).

Our next on was an Onan. Definitely quiet and when it worked it was great. But we had a lot of repairs. In 5 years we had it rebuilt 3 times (twice under warranty- thank goodness). Man, once you get used to a generator you get spoiled and when that thing quit working, it's like life was on hold until it was fixed- lol! We kind of figured that Onan's are made for RVs and RVs tend to plug in rather than use the generators. I don't know if that's a reasonable explanation for how repair intensive it was (the 3 rebuilds weren't the only repairs fyi). Maybe, like most things, they're just cheaply made.