generator security need?
Getting ready to purchase genny for our 5er. Have seen a lot of allusions to gennys being stolen, is this paronia or a real concern? If it's real, how do you secure yours?
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At the first State Park campground I visited with my TT, I heard that a couple of weeks prior someone went through during the wee hours with a bolt cutter and stole over a dozen of them.
When I parked at a place called 'Ludlow' in California, which is just a gas station and a truck parking lot, someone came in the middle of the night and stole my battery right off of my hitch. I had both generators running to operate my air conditioner, so I guess they figured (correctly) that I would come boiling out loaded for bear if the AC went off.
This made me pretty paranoid. I wound up buying a motion sensor alarm. This thing is pretty cool. It covers a wedge-shaped area about thirty feet long at an angle of about 40 degrees. Anything larger than a rabbit will set it off.
I heard from a friend that he has a better one. Instead of setting of an ear-splitting alarm, it sends a signal to another unit that alerts the owner.
The only drawback is that on windy nights, I need to put a weight on the unit, which is about the size of a couple of packs of cards, otherwise it gets buffeted by the wind and goes off.
When I parked at a place called 'Ludlow' in California, which is just a gas station and a truck parking lot, someone came in the middle of the night and stole my battery right off of my hitch. I had both generators running to operate my air conditioner, so I guess they figured (correctly) that I would come boiling out loaded for bear if the AC went off.
This made me pretty paranoid. I wound up buying a motion sensor alarm. This thing is pretty cool. It covers a wedge-shaped area about thirty feet long at an angle of about 40 degrees. Anything larger than a rabbit will set it off.
I heard from a friend that he has a better one. Instead of setting of an ear-splitting alarm, it sends a signal to another unit that alerts the owner.
The only drawback is that on windy nights, I need to put a weight on the unit, which is about the size of a couple of packs of cards, otherwise it gets buffeted by the wind and goes off.
