generators in np- a touchy subject

Submitted: Monday, Sep 05, 2011 at 15:27
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Hi all, we are planning a week down south in the October School holidays. Now I know this is a touchy subject and I don't want to cause a bun fight- however I am thinking that if we are going to be staying for about 6 days- we might need to take the generator.I have checked the DEC campsite regulations and it appears that they are allowed where we are going. However, I was also thinking of ways that we could minimise the need for it as much as possible. We are not in a position to go out and buy a solar setup so this is not an option(for now). Our main power consumption is the engel fridge. We usually leave this in the car and run it off the camper trailer when camped but run it off the car when driving around sightseeing etc. This tends to reduce the drain on the two batteries in the camper. The camp lights are low amp led ones, and we have purchased a battery operated lantern, have a coleman duel fuel lantern and have also been given a gas lantern to go on the gas bottle. So this should mean that lights do not use a great deal. I was hoping that if we do need to use the genny it would only be for a short time. We have a Cteck charger and my thoughts were that using this off the genny we could bring one of the campers batteries up to 80% in a few hours. The manual for the genny says we can charge the second battery straight from the generator at the same time(although this would only be a trickle charge so ? is it worth it). So does anyone have any other obvious powersaving tips? I am reluctant to leave the engel at home as we tend to take all our food with us and not frequent the shops when we are camped - I don't really want to be trekking out to the shops for ice every day or so. Thansks for your 'constructive ' comments.doc
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