Cost to install a Generator?
blackcows
Reg. Mar 2010
Posted 2017-06-29 10:47 PM (#170184)
Subject: Cost to install a Generator?


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i know there are a lot of variables but does anyone have a guess of the cost to install an onan generator in the hay rack of a trailer?   Trailer is not prewired.
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cajunmuleman
Reg. Oct 2011
Posted 2017-07-03 6:34 AM (#170207 - in reply to #170184)
Subject: RE: Cost to install a Generator?



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I know this is not quite what you are asking, but I was charged $1500.00 to install a Generac in the bottom of my saddle compartment. My trailer was not prewired either.
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Steve-O
Reg. Mar 2016
Posted 2017-07-03 10:36 AM (#170211 - in reply to #170184)
Subject: RE: Cost to install a Generator?


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$3000 or so for the generator, $1000 or so for other materials,  exhaust, wiring, gas tank. $1000 for labor,  depending on interior finishes. Plus a mark up,  I did some checking on my Cimarron and it's prewired,  figured by the time I bought a hay rack etc... It was going to be about $6000 -    I decided I am going to buy an Inverter Generator. 
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cajunmuleman
Reg. Oct 2011
Posted 2017-07-03 4:16 PM (#170212 - in reply to #170184)
Subject: RE: Cost to install a Generator?



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Mine was for labor and materials only. I had the generator already
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blackcows
Reg. Mar 2010
Posted 2017-07-03 8:51 PM (#170213 - in reply to #170184)
Subject: RE: Cost to install a Generator?


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 I use two Honda 2000 generators now. It works but sure would be nice to just push a button ??
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cajunmuleman
Reg. Oct 2011
Posted 2017-07-03 9:23 PM (#170214 - in reply to #170212)
Subject: RE: Cost to install a Generator?



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Blackcows, I went the opposite way. I removed an onboard Generac and went with two Honda 2000's twinned. I run them from a 20 gallon fuel tank mounted on the floor of my saddle compartment, I put a wooden floor on top of the fuel tank and put the two generators on top of this strapped down. I have a 6 gallon fuel tank that rides between the two. As a backup I bring a 3000 model Honda. I am lucky enough to never had to use it but have loaned it to several friends, I had a freind with a $95,000 trailer and on his maiden voyage I had to loan him my spare because his onboard Onan wouldn't run
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