Generator etiquette
If you're in a camp area without electric, but still there are others around, how late is it okay to run your generator into the evening? And are generators in MHs more quiet that setting one up outs...
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Big_steve wrote:
If you're in a camp area without electric, but still there are others around, how late is it okay to run your generator into the evening? And are generators in MHs more quiet that setting one up outside a TT?
Except for stopping for some rest at a Walmart parking lot, we always camp in campgrounds with at least water and electric, so don't run the generator with one exception - if the power at the campground is out. We lost power for 5 days one time, but only ran the generator to charge the battery usually for a few hours mid-morning.
Our Class C motorhome had a 4000 Watt on-board Onan generator that I thought was loud. Then after Hurricane Matthew blew through, we lost power. Our neighbor a few houses away was running his open frame generator to power his TT. Standing at the front door of our house with our MH in the driveway 10 feet away, I could hear the open frame generator about 100 feet away over our Motorhome's generator. That thing was crazy loud. I don't know how they stayed in the TT all day.
The on-board generators are somewhere in the middle between an inverter generator and an open frame generator. As far as I am concerned, all generators are loud. Some are just louder than others.
-Michael
