Cheap chinese generators

Hi all,

I thought i'd let you all know about my $300.00 generator. Used it for the first time last weekend and ran it at night for about 10 hours over 2 nights. It never missed a beat and it's about as loud as my idling vehicle. We only had it about 5 metres away and it never bothered us. We ran our fluoro lights off it and I ran my Waeco off the vehicle battery. Big Mistake!!, on Sunday morning I had a flat battery and I thought i'd give my jumppack a go but although fully charged it couldn't start the diesel.

Ah cheap chinese generator have battery charger. Hooked it up and 1.5 hours later we were away. If that didn't work it was about a 10 km walk to the nearest property through sand, so I reckon the generator has paid for itself already.

Time to reassess getting a dual batttery setup ao that I don't flatten the battery freezing my fish again.

Cheers

Macca