Best new APU for the money?

I've had several RVs before I bought my own truck and I'll never have one again without a generator.

This past year I bought a truck with a Tri-pac and I would never own a truck without one, I don't care what it cost me to get it there. It's a cost of doing business.

A backup generator on a big vehicle (truck/boat/RV/WHATEVER!) could save your life and help you carry on in comfort whenever you break down, get low on fuel, whatever. As often as OTR trucks break down these days (modern emissions trucks) I can't imagine trusting one for heat/AC and power all the time.

 

Have a Comfort Pro,(Carrier), on our truck. Unit has 3300 or so hours and it runs great. It is a bit noisy and expensive to maintain. About $400 for a pm service every thousand hours. That is a lot of money to change oil and filter on a 14 hp Kubota diesel engine! But, I must pay these expensive dealer prices to maintain the warranty which is for 6000 hrs. After that I'll do it myself for probably $50 and 1/2 an hour's work. This unit has worked very well except for control panel stopped working once and a line leaked out all refrigerant once. Both repairs, which were quite expensive, were covered under warranty.
But this unit keeps me from idling!

 

Hey hull. Could you please share the brand and unit name of the window AC unit? Aren't they heavy on the window? Did the bracket come with the unit? Where did you purchase the apu tool box? Never seen anything like it.

Thanks hull!!

 

Very good. Great crafting skills.

 

So tomorrow when I get to the truck I will post up pictures of the ac unit I have and the window bracket I made.
The window unit and the bracket fit nicely in my under bed compartment.
The generator box is a standard run of the mill tractor supply tool box that I took a die grinder too and cut the ends of it out.
I also bought the aluminum diamond plate end doors at tractor supply and then cut them to size, drilled them and welded nuts to the back side and bought thumb screw hardware at Lowe’s

 

And it's Made in America.

 

You almost can't hear it run from inside the truck. The fumes are piped straight up in the air and exit 13'6" above the ground.

$1400 for the generator and mini-split and it uses $4-$5 worth of gas per day.

The EPA brought this #### on themselves with DPF/SCR that isn't ready for prime time.

 

I have a HFS 2055 Xantrex Inverter/Charger that has pass-through shore power and a 55 amp battery charger built in. It does a fine job of maintaining the batteries. Pure sine wave to boot.

 

hello, we just brought a truck 2015 pete 579. with a dynasty APU on it. heats really good. we just can’t figure out how to get the outlet on the inside to work??
do you have any tips on how to get power to the outlet?

 

There is breaker circuit in the under bunk check to make sure it did not trip that is what happen when mine did not work.