The Dynasys will come in right around $9,000, depending on where you have it done. The shop I've found to have the best word of mouth rep (and price) is Boomer Diesel in Okie city. Most shops want to keep your truck for 2 days to install it, but Boomer will get you out in about 7 hours, and they'll show priority to the owner operator over fleet customers. Hope this helps.
If you have a tractor with a 2007 or newer engine, to be compliant with CARB in Californication you must have a DPF with any diesel engine APU, and the DPF is often not qouted as part of the unit's price, so expect to add another $3,000 or so to the total.
Some of the APU's are CARB compliant, and a lot of the portable generators like the ones being discussed here are fully CARB compliant already. Martin
I am so sorry sir Mr left lane Trucker I owned a cab over KW in 1980 and a long nose Pete with a 1271 detriot in 1982 I bought my first commercial fishing boat in 1972 Built a 93 foot swordfish boat in 1986 with 4 diesel engines in them. But yes you are correct at this point i am a new truck driver and am mostly too busy too comment on every piece of stupidity posted by nobodies. If my count is accurate I believe I have owned 41 pieces of equipment with diesels in them
And the point of that senseless rant? And what has any of that rant got to do with a genset exactly? And your sum total of experience of driving an over the road truck equipped with a generator/apu would be what again? I rest my case, as the answer is obviously only what you have "learned" by being in TA's super trucker school. And is it just me or does something smell a little fishy? You "owned a cab over KW in 1980", and then got a "long nose Pete in 1982", but you are going through Trans Am's driver training school? Really? Maybe you just bought those two trucks, but never drove them? Only thing that makes an ounce of sense to me....Nice lawn ornaments though if you like that kind of thing. And your lack of posting on this particular bit of "stupidity" would be most greatly appreciated... Martin
I think I have decided to go with a Carrier unit, and am going to look more closely at them when I go to MATS in 2 weeks. I should save about $160 a week from idling this truck, so it makes it's own monthly payment in 2 weeks !!
In a PM...... captain pete Bobtail Member Last Seen: 1 Minute Ago 04.19 PM Member Since: Jan 2012 Location: toms river nj Trucker? 0-1 Year Posts: 22 My Trucking Photos: 0 Thanks: 1 Thanked: 4 Times moron u r truly moronic From someone that is older than a teenager, really? Oh well....Nice to see I reached out and "touched someone" today. Back on topic, Is the Carrier an actual generator, like the Rigmaster etc? Or is an inverter still needed? Martin
What I believe he is refering to is not called an "inverter", it's called a "converter". R/Vs use converters which take shore-power (120 vac) and convert it to 12 vdc. They charge the batterys w/o overcharging them, and provide big amperage to the other 12 vdc needs in the coach, all at the same time. What they also do is disconnect themselves from the batterys when not connected to "shorepower". This auto isolation from the vehicles batterys allows the vehicles charging system to charge the batterys w/o a back-feed into the converter/charger. You can accomplish exactly the same thing with a good battery-charger providing you disconnect the dc leeds before ya run the truck. An inverter takes 12 vdc & makes 120vac. Polar opposites in more ways than one.
http://www.xantrex.com/power-products/inverter-chargers/prosine-2.aspx That is what I saw on an RV website, and followed the link etc. Same thing, different wording maybe? Martin
