Sounds to me like my generator will see more use than my inverter, especially in warm tropical locations where AC is often a necessity. Cool weather places probably call for more inverter camping since the AC is not necessary. Not sure the inverter will support the microwave or AC, but it should be good for just about everything else. And my battery (chassis) also charges while on shore power.
Nice to have both.
The inverter won't run the A/Cs. But it might run the microwave. Ours does. This depends on the inverter power rating.
We generally avoid boondocking in hot weather - not fun! You just have to run the gen so much and it's noisy and vibrates and my bedroom reading light flickers. I don't mind for a couple or three hours a day, but not most of the day and night - please!**
But in very hot weather traveling down the road we run the gen so that one of the motorhome A/Cs runs. This really helps the comfort while driving - and when driving you don't notice it is running.
We often use the gen in rest areas when in transit.
We occasionally boondock, sometimes 3 or 4 nights. We don't usually need to run the gen more than a couple hours a day when boondocking.
Still, we don't seem to exceed 100 hours on the gen per year.
Audrey
** Funny story about the running the gen in hot weather. We were once in a GA campground in really hot weather (reaching 100), and the 30 amp power was pretty marginal, we couldn't even draw 25 or thereabouts without the voltage dropping pretty bad during the day. But we managed with running just one A/C, the hot water on diesel (as needed) and the fridge on propane, and switching off the A/Cs when we needed to run toaster or microwave or whatever.
Our neighbor big rig, had a different approach. They unplugged from the power pedestal, and ran their generator for THREE DAYS STRAIGHT. Even at night, and when gone for several hours they left it running. Fortunately their site was somewhat distant from ours even though next door, but we sure got tired of hearing that gen!
In the spot next these guys was a tent - with a window air conditioner stuck under one side of the tent! We had never seen that before either.
You just never know what you are going to encounter!