Brynn&Cas

Thanks so much for all your information! I guess I'll just keep on researching what our best option is and check out those two a.c. units. And leaving the dog at home is not an option because we've jumped all in and will be traveling/living in the rig. I misunderstood the specs on the Honda,(never owned a generator, or done any of this before so I'm a bit daft to the whole thing) I was thinking it was 2000 running not the 1600, so it certainly would not be an upgrade! Thank you for pointing that out, we would have felt even more idiotic if we would have bought it. And yes, the unit runs great on shore power, haven't had a problem with it yet, fingers crossed. And that's a sweet little set up you got there! Looks great, and like a lot of hard work!

Hey everybody! New to this forum and loving all the information on here! My boyfriend and I recently bought an 89' Toyota Dolphin and we've been doing some serious renovations. So our main problem now is that our generator won't run the ac unit (which is a concern for us because we have a long haired hyperactive dog). Anyways, so the thing is it starts up the ac, runs for maybe 5 minutes and then the ac kicks off but the generator continues to run. I've been reading something about a hard start capacitor working but would like to get some opinions/suggestions/what worked for you, anything really! I believe the ac is the original and is 13,500 btu. Our generator is a Coleman powermate with a 1800 running watts and a 2250 max watts, which we are looking to upgrade to the Honda eu2000i. Looking forward to hearing from you guys! Thanks!