Generators!! Yes YOU!

egarant wrote:
Since when did generators become an esential piece 0f camping equipment?

Must I hear a dry campgound buzzing all day long because people and KIDS can’t unplug?

Do people come out to camp anymore to enjoy the outdoors or do they come out to sit in their RV and run their generator ALL DAY so they can live the “at home” life while camping?
So beautiful cheap campgrounds are ruined by the sounds of generators, lost are the sounds of the birds, groundhogs and geese surrounding the campground.

And the Park Service is to blame as well, what is the point in “limiting” generator use to daytime hours? Running them during the day is just a annoying as I am awake and outside trying to enjoy the scenery.
Some parks, very few…limit generator use to 2 hrs in the am and again in the pm, now that makes more sense.

Please don’t try ahd justify your use with health reasons….those are few and far between.
Boil water on the stove, pan heat your meals, feel the sun on your face, put the friggin electronics away, your CAMPING!

Good luck without generators where we just came back from:

10 days of drycamping 90% SHADED with only small moving spots of sun in the woods along the shore of a beautiful lake in Northern California. Nights were cold (high 30's and low 40's) ... so heat was definitely needed evenings, during sleeping, and early mornings.

We camped in adjoining drycamp sites with a large family group and we all needed to run generators for our battery charging, hair drying, microwaving, electric bike charging, and outdoor electric cooking (via a portable pellet cooker).

Those of us with motorhomes also idled our motorhome engines for ultra-quiet and ultra-fast battery charging.

We had a spectacular time together and it would not have been possible without our quiet motorhome built-in generators, idling of our main engines, and an ultra-quiet Honda EX650 suitcase generator (a legendary generator no longer available, new, for years).

I would NEVER buy a motorhome without a built-in generator in it or leave home in a towable RV without a portable generator along. Complete self-contained RV camping requires that generators be included in one's electrical power mix. Generators make it possible to be ready for anywhere, anytime camping. Solar (especially portable solar with long extension cords) is nice - but only as an addition to well installed built-in or properly chosen portable generator capability.