What are the advantages or disadvantages between an APU that has a generator and one that does not? Besides not being able to hook it up and run my house when ice storms hit.
APU with or without
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My ProHeat has both an alternator AND a 4000 watt generator.
I need some input from the "experts" on this. It is my belief that an APU WITH a generator is better than one without. Am I correct? I am needing some help.
In my case, the plug for my block heater uses the generator, everything else runs off the inverter. That's about all I can tell you about that.
Without a generator I assume the block heater would be running off of the inverter then? It would seem to me, I don't know for sure, that an alternator only system would put more strain on the inverter and batteries than one with a generator.
As my now broken system is set up when the generator runs my 120 stuff runs off of that. When I shut the APU down the inverter/battery system kicks in.
As my now broken system is set up when the generator runs my 120 stuff runs off of that. When I shut the APU down the inverter/battery system kicks in.