Camping with the Sound Police
This is not intended to be another quiet generator versus noisy generator discussion, but I am curious where people camp who run their generators for much of the day. I am a full timer and travel ext...
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We do allot of winter camping along the Northern California Coast (north of SF), Crab season starts in November. One place we frequent often affords no hook ups.
You either need allot of solar or a good generator. From November thru April it tends to be very damp and windy, thus we tend to run the furnace allot.
We do use a Mr Buddy during the day and also have 200 watts of solar so we do not need to run the genny often.
Others tend to run their generators during non quiet times and we have actually camped next to a couple of campers that seem to run it for about four hours during the day and from sundown until quiet time (10P.M.).
Unless we are socked in with fog we do not need to run our Honda 2K that often and only will run it during dinner prep so as to use the microwave and watch a movie after dinner.
Knowing the situation it doesn't bother us to hear the hum of generators
running. Most folks we encounter are conscious of others and some have actually constructed sound barriers to quiet the noisy ones down some..
The only ones that have bothered me were a couple of Class B campers that were surfers (nothing wrong with that), but the only way they recharged their batteries was to run the vehicle engine.
And it seemed they considered that their Van was Not a Generator and would start it up every few hours and let it idle! At three in the morning the camper next to you starts there van up and lets it idle for an hour with that drone it's hard to get back to sleep!
After the second night of that I went over and asked them if they were aware of quiet time?? He advised me he was well aware of the rules of the campground and he wasn't running a generator and it got cold at night and asked me what the big deal was!! Then proceeds to explain that his van has a muffler and generators do not, tried to tell me my Honda Generator was louder than his van..
I guess I wasn't the only one annoyed by the late night early morning drone,, The camp host and Ranger were there the next morning and asked them to leave!!
Nice to know the campground is serious about quiet time!!
You either need allot of solar or a good generator. From November thru April it tends to be very damp and windy, thus we tend to run the furnace allot.
We do use a Mr Buddy during the day and also have 200 watts of solar so we do not need to run the genny often.
Others tend to run their generators during non quiet times and we have actually camped next to a couple of campers that seem to run it for about four hours during the day and from sundown until quiet time (10P.M.).
Unless we are socked in with fog we do not need to run our Honda 2K that often and only will run it during dinner prep so as to use the microwave and watch a movie after dinner.
Knowing the situation it doesn't bother us to hear the hum of generators
running. Most folks we encounter are conscious of others and some have actually constructed sound barriers to quiet the noisy ones down some..
The only ones that have bothered me were a couple of Class B campers that were surfers (nothing wrong with that), but the only way they recharged their batteries was to run the vehicle engine.
And it seemed they considered that their Van was Not a Generator and would start it up every few hours and let it idle! At three in the morning the camper next to you starts there van up and lets it idle for an hour with that drone it's hard to get back to sleep!
After the second night of that I went over and asked them if they were aware of quiet time?? He advised me he was well aware of the rules of the campground and he wasn't running a generator and it got cold at night and asked me what the big deal was!! Then proceeds to explain that his van has a muffler and generators do not, tried to tell me my Honda Generator was louder than his van..
I guess I wasn't the only one annoyed by the late night early morning drone,, The camp host and Ranger were there the next morning and asked them to leave!!
Nice to know the campground is serious about quiet time!!
