Our trip down southeast gave is a few days without power. Twice we ran the generator and AC all night (with permission) and once we slept with just the windows open because it was a cool night. We also ran it going down the road a couple days (turned off while fueling). The owners manual says our gene runs on six tenths of a gallon per hour my experience shows right at a half a gallon no big difference, which is good. So with 55 gallon gas tanks I have about 40 gallons usable for the gene at best. So we have just over 60 hours of gene fuel if needed and we started on a full tank of course, which still leaves over 13 gallons of fuel to drive with.
Our miles per gallon ranged from a low of 6.5 (includes a night on the gene) to a high of 10.5. Lower end miles seemed to be in the mountains and at elevation and the higher mileage was on the flats below 2000 feet. The most typical miles per gallon was in the 7 mile per hour range. So I will stick with 7 miles per gallon for planning purposes since most of our current time is spent above 5000 feet..
Our refrigerator did seem to have some issues keeping below 40 degrees at time when it was above 80 degrees out if not on 30 amp shore power so I will be looking into this. Most days in travel mode we put 13 pounds of ice packs in the refrigerator and they just kept it below 40. More on the trip later.
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