.... annoying others who park too close

Honda 20I.

Power Van Fridge, Portable Freezer, Electrical Tools Eg. Drills, Grinder, Chain Saw, Battery Charger, Indoor and Outdoor Lights, Phone and Acc. Chargers.

My Engle runs off a 120 amp.hr. deep cycle battery during the day and as soon as I start the Gennie late afternoon the Engel goes onto the 240 power. Only use my gennie for about 3-4 hours each evening.

We don't have an Air Con.

We don't have solar panels and do a lot of bush camping. Gas and Jennie suit our purposes.

This trip everyone who were camped near us had solar and they had jennies going every day and night till about 9pm.
Not a problem at all.

Just arrived home from 2 weeks camping, no problems with power or gas.

I do carry a fair bit of fuel for both boat motor and jennie about 35 l.

Fuel in plastic containers in the tray back ute, no fumes. Brought 20 l. back.

All good.

Have fun Haji-Baba

We use ours to mainly zap something in the microwave, leftovers etc.

generally just to charge batteries if they get low in cloudy weather- at those times usually only run it 5pm-8.30pm when we also watch sat TV - will run fridge at the same time if I remember to switch from gas to 240v.

Arthur Just saying as it happened near us on our most recent trip.

1 Kipor, 6 Hondas all ran at some time during the day or evening.

Air con, I don't know, seems most neighbours were sitting under their annex most of the time. (And it was pretty hot outdoors.)

There was never a worry of too much noise or any interference to neightbours at any time in my vicinity.

Additionally we run a Lemair washing machine during the day and both fridges go onto 240 as soon as the gennie gets going.

Also run a small 240 pump for additional water from stream, lake, dam or bore.

As for limited solar power available to others nearby I don't know, most solar units I saw were folding and were moved around during the day. Those that may have been permanently mounted I couldn't see or I didn't bother to look.

It all worked out very well for us and others near by and we had a great time.

Have Fun Haji-Baba

One time a bloke had a generator going and offered nearby campers to feel free to plug in if they want.

I had a powered site opposite him so didn't need his kind offer.

No one complained and it all worked out well.

One bonus was the quiet drone was enough to drown out the drunken singing from a rowdy bunch nearby.

I have been debating whether to buy a pure sine wave genset for when I hit the road in May. I have a 110Ahr van battery and a 120Ahr "house"battery in the Prado. The Prado is fitted with a Ctek D250S dual charger. I am going to link the Anderson plug to the 'van to the house battery rather than the start battery. I will then have a better charging regime of the 'van battery, plus 230 Ahrs ( cables are appropriately sized for the length). Now, by my reckoning for any extra charging of the batteries i have a genset already in the Prado which I can run if needed and probably quieter than a genset, but maybe a bit engine size overkill. ( and i know diesels don't like low revs, had a launch for many yrs)

But then a genset is probably more adaptable - can power the aircon if needs be, and my portable oven, laptop, even my full pc :) I't just the extra weight type of fuel.

Don't need it for any heating as I'm installing a diesel heater as I'm heading South.

Mostly to use the hair dryer - to defrost the 12v fridge!

If you don't like generators in a FREE Camp.

-- Edited by Webmaster on Wednesday 26th of March 2014 08:27:56 AM