Power option : <span class="highlight">Generator</span>??

AlbyNSW: Thats for 3 days without starting the car from time to time to top up the battery?

Yes 3 days off a dual battery setup with my second battery being a 120 amp AGM type. You could prolong that with a solar panel setup

I have, for the last 15 years of owning a Trailblazer fridge, thought 3 days before charging in cool (anything with a max of less than 30 deg) weather was very attainable with around a 100 a/h deep cycle battery.
After 3 days I would then run the engine on about 1200 revs for an hour a day or so with the start battery negative terminal disconnected. That way all the charge goes into the second battery. But I wouldn't even consider that for the first couple of days.
If was driving for a couple of hours or more every second day I would have plenty of charge for camping.
Trailblazer don't recommend that you run their fridges from a generator but recommend you run them from a battery & use the generator to charge the battery. This is because trailblazers have a 20% duty cycle at an ambient air temp of 45 deg.
I have never felt the need to carry a second generator to charge a battery when I have an 80 amp alternator or greater sitting under the bonnet already hooked up to a 130kw motor with a 75 l fuel tank.
I reckon if you can't get 3 days you gotta get better gear.

They might be advised to fit the gennie with a locking fuel cap........ go gigure.

Last year we set up camp in a council beach-side park and just on bed-time the adjacent caravan started up his gennie and told us it would run all night as he had a sleep apnea machine!!!!!! Could have said something before we unloaded and set the camp up.

Or even....'figure'

Hi Guys,
You're trying to hold back the tide - generators are a fact of life.
You'd be better off trying to find a place where they are not allowed, rather than trying to make others run to your rules.

Fair go Dennis. Noise pollution is noise pollution regardless of who or how many are ignorant enough to create it.
Whether it be a bunch of teenagers partying or a hoon in a car or some one running a generator it is all the same. Noise pollution.

Further more. Just like those tossers in the campground who in order to prove their undevoted love of all things Australian want to turn the radio up flatout on Sunday morning so that everyone within 200 yards has to listen to Macca.
That's noise pollution as well.

Dennis, Does the peace and quietness emanating from my camp disturb you?
No? Then neither should the sounds from your camp annoy others. Consideration is also a fact of life....... or at least, it should be.

Further more. Just like those tossers in the campground who in order to prove their undevoted love of all things Australian want to turn the radio up flatout on Sunday morning so that everyone within 200 yards has to listen to Macca.
That's noise pollution as well.

Gee you blokes should be in old folk's homes.
A couple of months ago I was at Steep Point WA where there were a group of young fisherman (anyone younger than me at 66 is a young bloke) and families were set up with tarps, tents, fridges gensets etc. Their kids yahooed till 9 or 10 at night.
Some places I go to I come across vans parked up for months at a time in the one spot, with freezers and microwaves etc. What do you expect them to do live on dried soup and baked beans?
Live and let live, and if you don't like the neighbourhood - pack up and pee off.

Do what I mostly do, go camping away from the crowds, usually no one else where we go camping, unless they are wiyh us, and I can run my gennie to my hearts content if I wish too. If my gennie is running and someone else does decide to camp near me............That is their problem!!

Solar is preferred - for all the reasons outlined, silent, environmentally friendly. Gold plated solution - when it isn't cloudy!!

Amazing how often "put tent up" equals "rain and/or cloud" - must be a law of nature!

Certainly I would prefer to use my (Kipor) pretty quiet generator for a few hours to keep the beer cold, than my 4.2 litre generator!! If, that is, we are in one place for a few days.

Like many travellers, I have both.

Hi K&K; likewise, our Honda gets much more use at home than it ever does on our travels. We first got it to run the caravan air conditioner, but apart from that first holiday (in summer) we haven't used it for the air con.

Mh

ps: I run a C Teck 15 amp charger off the Honda