Comment: Electricity for Camping
Submitted: Sunday, Feb 22, 2009 at 04:06
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Doug&Dog
Supporting Willem's method of using the vehicle to charge up, the other plus is that if you have a diesel, then you don't need to carry petrol for a generator.
And if you don't want to annoy your fellow campers, go for a drive instead; this at least does the vehicle auxiliary.
Doug & Dog (Welshmun)
Reply By: Member - John and Val - Wednesday, Mar 04, 2015 at 00:52
Wednesday, Mar 04, 2015 at 00:52
Thank you for your comment Doug. In the light of Willem's suggestion I added a paragraph above to suggest simply running the engine to charge the battery. It's an obvious solution that at first sight (running a 4 litre engine to keep the fridge cold) looks extravagant. Fact is, you can run that engine for a long time on the $1000+ you have to spend on a decent generator or solar panels.
My own choice was to use solar. I've had alternators die on me, and wanted the security of having some way of starting the engine, or at least calling for help, if this happened in a remote area. The choice between solar and generator was easy - the costs are similar but one is light and quiet, the other heavy, smelly and often pretty noisy.
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