Propane
Has anyone ever stopped using propane completely ? I don't see a big benefit for the cost, unless you plan on boondocking for a week ! Most people camp in warm weather and if you are plugged in, t...
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BarabooBob wrote:
For those that want to use electricity whenever possible, what about when you camp where there is no electricity and you are not allowed to run your generator, at any time?
Your question above is about campsites in which you're not allowed to run a generator at all ... i.e. no generator-allowed hours.
These are usually "tents only" type campsites - and often are not large enough for RVs, or have campsites that are so unlevel that RVs cannot be leveled adequately, or are outright posted as "No RVs".
Unfortunately those camping areas are often very beautiful and highly attractive to us with our relatively small RV. If we find those type camping areas and they're not outright posted as "No RVs", we can charge our batteries by merely idling our ultra-quiet main engine which cannot be heard a few feet away.
With our idling main engine we can of course also keep the interior cool with the cab air if the camping is during hot and/or high humidity daytime weather. Our other RV appliances are propane based, so are quiet.
By the way, it is possibe for tenters to sometimes need and use small generators. In addition to our built-in generator, we carry along in our motorhome a small ultra-quiet portable suitcase generator that was probably intended for both small RVs and tenters when it was introduced in the 1980s. We sometimes use this for battery charging in noise-sensitve campsites instead of idling the main engine.
