You anti-generator bigots need to slow down and read what the OP posted......TWICE.
The OP said he is wanting this generator โfor emergency home use and maybe boondockingโ. In his second post (which Iโm not going to quote because itโs already been quoted and ignored once), heโs described usage that is totally home emergency use. So I would say that his intended usage is PRIMARILY home use.
Neither situation will bother you or any other campers. The OP is from Texas, and Iโm inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt that โboondockingโ means nobody else will be around that will give a shyte.
As for home emergency use, he said he will be running it on NG, which is a good plan for obvious reasons. Using NG as the fuel source will de-rate the generator output to about 7KW though, so that should be kept in mind. I donโt consider it to be over-kill for a unit that is primarily for home standby use.
It has 240 volt circuits, so it could be used for a small central air system, but youโll have very little capacity left of you do. Since the OP has NG available at home though, if he has gas furnaces, the generator can be used to run those. Iโm sure heโs very well aware of this now after the power problems Texas just experienced, staying warm can be critical in a winter power outage. If he experienced a long outage in the summertime, it has enough excess capacity that it could be used to run a portable or window mounted AC.
Itโs also large enough to run all of the critical loads in a typical house, and allow you to live more or less normally during an extended outage. You need to consider powering things like refrigerators, freezers, pumps, fans, garage door openers, hair dryers, microwaves, washers and dryers, and probably a few things Iโm forgetting during an extended power outage.
Raife, just for comparison sake, I have a 10KW home standby generator installed at my house. It uses NG for the fuel, so its de-rated to 9KW. It has the ability to provide 240 volts, but Iโm not using it for any 240 circuits because that reduces the number of 120 volt circuits the transfer switch panel can support. Itโs powered us through several extended outages over the years, most of them in the wintertime. Weโve had a couple of long summertime outages though, and Iโve had to use a portable AC to give us a cool place to sleep, and cool the room the boss uses as a home office. Itโs run for as long as a week continuously, and will add about $100 to our gas bill after running that long. I remember one of those summertime outages that the daytime temperature was getting over 100* every day, which also de-rates its output, and the generator was running very close to overload for several hours each day.
Now having said all that, for strictly RV use I prefer the quieter inverter based units, even if nobody else is around to hear it. My TC has a 3600 LP generator built in that is an inverter type, but itโs used so seldom that at 20 years old it has less than 150 hours on it. I also carry a Yamaha 1000 thatโs much quieter than the built-in, and I use the snot out of it. It has no hour meter on it, but I use it all the time both at home and camping.
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2001 Lance 1121 on a 2016 F450 โScuse me while I whinge.
And for all you Scooby-Doo and Yosemite Sam typesโฆโฆโฆ..Letโs Go Brandon!!!