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You are sure not putting much bait on the hook. A 4 person tent is kinda low rent.....GRIN

Yes, the higher the altitude the lower the power out. Under those circumstances I would go with a min of 3k. That will leave overhead for the altitude. Probably won't need it since I doubt you will need the AC. It's always better to have more than you need and not need it than to wish for more.

Along those lines. A friend called and was having a problem. He bought a Champion 3100w inverter generator (<$1K) for his new BP with a 13.5k Dometic AC. When he turned on the AC the generator went into overload and shut down. He couldn't figure out if it was the AC (which ran on house electricity) or the generator. He hauled the generator to my house and we hooked it up to my RV which has 15k Dometic AC's. I turned off everything (fridge etc) and we hooked up the generator. First problem was I have the Progressive EMS-50 hardwired in. It immediately showed a ground neutral fault and would not turn on. A quick look at the wiring showed it had the normal generator setup where the ground and neutral are not connected. It also showed the 30A receptacle on the generator and the 20A receptacle had the grounds and neutrals common but not tied together. I made a ground/neutral plug for the 20A receptacle and the EMS was happy. It showed the RV was drawing 4A of current (battery charger?). I turned on the 15k AC and the generator grunted and went right on working. The EMS showed 14A of current with the AC running. All is well and the generator was happily running the AC. He didn't want to power up other stuff the see what it could handle so we stopped there. The generator was fine, it was his new AC that had a problem. While under load we stood beside the generator (sitting on the tailgate of his PU) and talked and the noise level was not objectionable. Since the generator has electric start and a remote starter it seemed like a nice package for the price and had no problems with a 15k AC.