inexpensive long-term stay in Sonora?

Almot wrote:

rocmoc wrote:
Almot, In this situation I was thinking of heat/furnace, hot water, continuous running water and AC or fans as luxuries. Our electric coffee pot & microwave are used on as need basics and we start the gen for the few minutes they are used. Of course the greatest usage & charge time is in colder weather. When in Mexico this is not the case, charge time is much less because of the great weather.

This was precisely my point :)
45-50 in the night to 55-80 in the day. No furnace was needed in daytime, and neither were fans, it wasn't hot enough to need fans or A/C. There was a running water, though this had little to do with generators, the amp-hour draw of the water pump is negligent. For hot water there is a propane. And they were still running generators 6 to 12 hours a day, with 200W solar on the roof. Hard to to understand. There are occasionally people that bring a generator without a battery charger, a mistake that only a first-timer can do and only once, and this wasn't the case.

Btw, it's easy to avoid running a generator each time when you have to run a coffee maker or microwave. All it takes is a proper inverter setup. You top the batteries up for an hour or two in the morning, this takes care of everything. Not to mention that neither making coffee nor reheating the meals requires 120V devices, but for most people this would be too much of a learning curve.

I do know what your are saying. Stayed at Chimulco once when a caravan came thu. A couple of the motorhomes ran their gens the entire two days they were there so they could run two & three AC units. It was warm but fans were fine. Plus they never once walked around the campground and talked to anyone. In addition they never used the great hot pool in the evening for guest only. Their loss but our gain, it was quiet in the pool.

rocmoc n AZ/Mexico