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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Have to chuckle ... we've been in a park with full hookups for the past two weeks - the guy next to us is waxing his camper -- with the electric polisher whine on high - for hours at a time. I swear my Honda generator is MUCH quieter. Ugh!
Then there are parks like Kodachrome Basin State Park in Torrey Utah: one of my favorite spots anywhere - but also the reason we added solar. We didn't get one of the electric spots and temperatures were in the lower 20's every night... ie furnace set at 58 a necessity for us. Generator hours were 12N - 4PM which was very nice for usual "morning generator hours" sipping my coffee in quiet, but made it difficult to go hike anywhere and be back in time to top off the batteries before 4 PM. But I really liked the odd hours, so hopefully our new solar will remedy the situation when we return.
Then there are parks like Kodachrome Basin State Park in Torrey Utah: one of my favorite spots anywhere - but also the reason we added solar. We didn't get one of the electric spots and temperatures were in the lower 20's every night... ie furnace set at 58 a necessity for us. Generator hours were 12N - 4PM which was very nice for usual "morning generator hours" sipping my coffee in quiet, but made it difficult to go hike anywhere and be back in time to top off the batteries before 4 PM. But I really liked the odd hours, so hopefully our new solar will remedy the situation when we return.
